Eddy Howard - The Eddy Howard Collection 1939-55 (2017)

Tracklist

CD1
01. My Last Goodbye
02. Rainbow Valley
03. It's a Hundred to One
04. Bluebirds in the Moonlight
05. Careless
06. In an Old Dutch Garden
07. Star Dust
08. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
09. Exactly Like You
10. To Each His Own 
11. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons 
12. My Best to You 
13. The Rickety Rickshaw Man 
14. The Girl That I Marry 
15. Heartaches 
16. My Adobe Hacienda 
17. I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder 
18. Ragtime Cowboy Joe 
19. An Apple Blossom Wedding 
20. Blue Tail Fly
21. Kate (Have I Come Too Early, Too Late) 
22. Now Is The Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
23. Just Because 
24. Put 'Em in a Box, Tie 'Em with A Ribbon (And Throw 'Em in the Deep Blue Sea) 
25. Dainty Brenda Lee 

CD2
01. (I'd Love to Get You) On a Slow Boat to China
02. Candy Kisses
03. Room Full of Roses
04. There's Yes, Yes, In Your Eyes
05. Maybe It's Because
06. Tell Me Why
07. Half a Heart Is All You Left Me (When You Broke My Heart in Two) 
08. Rag Mop
09. American Beauty Rose
10. To Think You've Chosen Me
11. The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)
12. A Penny a Kiss - A Penny a Hug
13. The Strange Little Girl
14. What Will I Tell My Heart
15. (A Woman Is A) Deadly Weapon
16. (It's No) Sin
17. Stolen Love
18. Wishin'
19. Be Anything (But Be Mine)
20. Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart
21. Old Fashioned Love
22. I Don't Want to Take a Chance
23. Mademoiselle
24. It's Worth Any Price You Pay
25. Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)
26. Melancholy Me
27. The Teen-Ager's Waltz

Eddy Howard, although not necessarily a household name these days, was a hugely popular and successful singer and bandleader during the 1940s and early '50s, racking up more than 40 Billboard pop chart hits from 1946 to 1955, having already had half-a-dozen hits as vocalist with Dick Jurgen's Orchestra during the war years. As a singer, he was a classic crooner, competing for chart honours with the likes of Dick Haymes, and he scored two landmark No. 1s with the ballads "To Each His Own" in 1946 and "It's No Sin" in 1951. They are naturally included in the great-value 52-track collection, which selects recordings from his Vocalion sessions with Dick Jurgens and his solo singles for the Majestic and Mercury labels through into the '50s, as well as some classy jazz titles for Columbia where he records with Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian, Benny Morton and Bud Freeman among others. It is packed full of hits, featuring just about every one of his chart entries, including with more than twenty Top 10 successes. It's a worthy tribute to an artist who has not received the recognition that his success during that era merited, and is a must for lovers of the style that characterised what many regard as the golden era of popular music.

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