Dream Duo

James/Grable, Betty Grable | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vintage Jazz Band
• ASIN: B000001I3S
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #773,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lullaby of Broadway

2. I Can't Begin to Tell You

3. Acapulco

4. Diga Diga Doo

5. Cotton Tail

6. The Band Played On/I'm Just Wild About Harry

7. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

8. Memphis Blues/Baby Won't You Please Come Home

9. What Did I Do?

10. Harry James Medley

11. Introduction

12. Blue Skies

13. And Then You Kissed Me

14. Estrellita (Little Star)

15. Wouldn't It Be Nice?

16. The Steel Guitar Rag

17. Night and Day

18. Perdido

19. If I Knew Then

20. King Porter Stomp

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Betty Grable & Harry James - The Ultimate Dream Duo, April 29, 2001

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Bubbles (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dream Duo (Audio CD)

This is a collection of songs that 1940s Hollywood Pin Up girl, Betty Grable, and her husband, bandleader, Harry James performed together in the 40s & 50s. Betty Grable was not allowed to record under her own name, by her contract with 20th Century Fox, whom she remained with until the mid 50s. The only "commercial" recording she and Harry made together was the song "I Can't Begin To Tell You" recorded in 1945 under Grable's pseudonym Ruth Hagg. (Ruth was her middle name and Hagg was Harry's mother's maiden name.) The other tracks on this CD come from appearances they made together in various shows such as Shower of Stars in 1954, a Bing Crosby show in 1949 and a medley on the Perry Como show in 1959. Many of the songs on this CD have been released on various vinyl releases, many of which were released only in the U.K. and can be hard-to-come by. Despite the fact that the recordings are old and that the sources may be iffy, the mastering on this CD is fine. Tracks 11 through 21 do not feature Miss Grable, and comes from a 1944 CBS production. The song stylings of Kitty Kallen and Buddy DiVito are featured here along with Harry James and his Orchestra. All in all, this is an excellent collection of songs for fans of Harry James or Betty Grable. It's nice to have these songs gathered together on a CD issue.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BETTY OVER SHADOWS HARRY, October 25, 2003

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This review is from: Dream Duo (Audio CD)

Betty Grable Queen of Technicolor sings here with then husband Harry James, Betty was always the bigger star and it shows.