Betty Johnson - Family Affair (1995)

Tracklist

01. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
02. Let Me Love You
03. How Deep Is the Ocean
04. I'm Confessin'
05. Speak Low
06. The Very Thought of You
07. Tea for Two
08. First Warm Day/ My Love Is a Wanderer
09. Mean to Me
10. So in Love
11. S'Wonderful/ Time After Time
12. Besame Mucho
13. Autumn Leaves
14. Spring Is Here
15. Today I Love Everybody
16. In the Garden



When Betty Johnson returned to the limelight in 1993 after a thirty-year pause, she reminded America that she had come from a singing-family tradition. A Family Affair, the first release of new Betty Johnson material after her comeback, featured prominently her daughters Lydia and Elisabeth. Professional singers in their own right, their lovely and sophisticated voices left no doubt that they dwelt vibrantly in the Johnson Family realm.

It was natural that Betty Johnson featured her daughters on the album as Betty herself had sung in a family fold as a child. Betty first touched audiences in the late 1930s and 1940s as a member of the popular Johnson Family Singers. Throughout the South and beyond, the Family sang sacred music with unchained enthusiasm, becoming one of the most popular family acts of the era.

In A Family Affair, Betty has carried on the tradition, bringing the Johnson Family sound into its seventh decade. Highlights from this collection include “The Very Thought of You,” “Today I Love Everybody,” and “How Deep is the Ocean” (which Betty sang on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts in the early 1950s).

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