Joni James - Manhattan (Original Recordings) (2013)

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Title: Manhattan (Original Recordings)
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Hoogan Records
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:44:17
Total Size: 673 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Manhattan (3:09)
2. 'Deed I Do (2:04)
3. I've Got a Crush On You (1:54)
4. Misty (3:10)
5. I'll Walk Alone (3:33)
6. You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (3:15)
7. (Fly Me to the Moon) in Other Words (3:40)
8. I Feel a Song Comin' On (1:58)
9. September in the Rain (2:12)
10. Lullaby of Birdland (2:41)
11. All or Nothing At All (3:21)
12. You Do (2:47)
13. Lover (1:59)
14. On the Sunny Side of the Street (2:21)
15. My Melancholy Baby (4:07)
16. Basin Street Blues (3:13)
17. By the Way (3:15)
18. Somewhere in the Night (3:18)
19. I'll Remember April (3:20)
20. Can't Get Out of This Mood (1:44)
21. Heart and Soul (2:54)
22. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (3:03)
23. I Almost Lost My Mind (3:48)
24. It's Magic (3:03)
25. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (3:27)
26. I Got It Bad (And They Ain't Good) (3:11)
27. Just One of Those Things (2:21)
28. They Can't Take That Away from Me (3:47)
29. This Heart of Mine (2:17)
30. I Love You Much Too Much (3:04)
31. Baby, Won't You Say You Love Me (2:15)
32. With a Song in My Heart (3:16)
33. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (2:32)
34. You're My Girl (3:00)
35. There Will Never Be Another You (2:59)
36. Dream a Little Dream of Me (2:33)

Pop songstress Joni James was born Giovanna Carmella Babbo in Chicago on September 22, 1930. After studying drama and ballet throughout her adolescence, she joined a local dance troupe on a tour of Canada upon graduating high school, later working as a chorus girl at the Windy City's Edgewater Beach Hotel. A fill-in gig at an Indiana roadhouse convinced James to pursue a career as a singer, and while appearing in a TV commercial she was spotted by executives at MGM, signing to the label in 1952. Her single "Why Don't You Believe Me" sold over a million copies, topping the U.S. charts for six weeks and falling just shy of the Top Ten in Britain.

An overnight sensation, James enjoyed an incredible run of hits over the next year, among them the double-sided "Have You Heard"/"Wishing Ring," "Purple Shades," Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Is It Any Wonder," "Almost Always," "My Love, My Love," "You're Fooling Someone," "Nina-Non (A Christmas Lullaby)," and "You're My Everything." By 1954, however, James' early success seemed to dissipate entirely, and after returning to the Top Ten twice the following year with "How Important Can It Be?" and "You Are My Love" she never reached to the upper rungs of the charts again, although she continued cracking the Top 100 for the remainder of the decade. In 1964, she retired from music to tend to her ailing husband, musical director Anthony Acquaviva, and spent the next three decades essentially removed from the public eye; finally, during the mid-'90s she returned to touring while also supervising the re-release of her classic MGM recordings.