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Blues in the Night

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I have been collecting great singers cd's for a couple of years now. Some like Dinah I first heard as child on the radio and Nat King Cole on televison. You get so in your youth that they were just there and franky I did not appreciate how good they were. These tracks were mostly recorded just before I was born in 1944. I bought the album out of a sense of completness. This one is perhaps my favorite and most played. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

These are Dinah's early sides, and feature her with some big bands and strings. Shore had a special way with a jazz standard, and especially with a torch song. Dinah Shore could easily be considered a jazz singer on some of these tracks, which makes this great disc of interest to jazz vocal collectors.

Disc: 1
1. Blues In The Night
2. Darn That Dream
3. Imagination
4. The Breeze And I
5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
6. The Nearness Of You
7. My Man
8. Yes, My Darling Daughter!
9. Down Argentina Way
10. Mood Indigo
11. Dinah s Blues
12. Somebody Loves Me
13. I Hear A Rhapsody
14. Memphis Blues
15. Honeysuckle Rose
16. I m Thru With Love
17. Jim
18. Mocking Bird Lament
19. All Alone
20. Sophisticated Lady
21. Stardust
22. Chloë
23. Body And Soul
24. I Don t Walk To Walk Without You
25. One Dozen Roses
26. By The Sleepy Lagoon
27. I'll Walk Alone
Disc: 2
1. Skylark
2. Mad About Him, Sad About Him, How Can I Be Mad About Him Blues
3. Murder , He Says
4. Why Don t You Fall In Love With Me?
5. Dearly Beloved
6. You d Be So Nice To Come Home To
7. Candy
8. Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
9. The Gypsy
10. Laughing On The Outside, Crying On The Inside
11. All That Glitters Is Not Gold
12. Doin What Comes Natur lly
13. You Keep Coming Back Like A Song
14. For Sentimental Reasons
15. Georgia On My Mind
16. They Didn t Believe Me
17. Anniversary Song
18. I Wish I Didn t Love You So
19. You Do
20. Golden Earrings
21. Buttons And Bows
22. Little White Lies
23. Far Away Places
24. Lavender Blue, Dilly, Dilly
25. So In Love
26. Dear Hearts And Gentle People
27. Baby, It s Cold Outside (With Buddy Clark)

There are some singers, the mere sight of whose name on a reissue is sufficient to induce a sense of well-being. Thus it was with this reissue, which spans the decade 1939-1949, with 54 tracks providing over two-and-a-half hours of sheer delight. Unlike many female singers, Dinah had no need to strain for the higher reaches, and her voice seems to float effortlessly above the orchestra. Accompaniments are provided mainly by Leonard Joy, Paul Weston, Gordon Jenkins, Sonny Burke and Morris Stoloff, plus the inclusion of three apiece of the sides she cut with Henry Levine and Paul Laval, with whom she sang in the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street broadcasts.