Hollywood Ladies Sing

Denise Darcel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Flare Records/Trad Alive
• ASIN: B001BDFCS0
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,488 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. He Is a Man

2. A Deep Dark Secret

3. Legalize My Name

4. It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House

5. I'm in Love Again

6. Men

7. Can't Get out of This Mood

8. He's Funny That Way

9. Lucky

10. When a Woman Loves a Man

11. How Did He Look?

12. Williow Weep for Me

13. Always True to You in My Fashion

14. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

15. Love for Sale

16. I'm in the Mood for Love

17. Boulevard of Broken Dreams

18. Every Man Is a Stupid Man

19. What Is a Man

20. In Our Little Den of Iniquity

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT CD ! TWO GREAT LADIES, August 16, 2008

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Griffon Cyriaque (NANTES, France) - See all my reviews
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I'm a French guy and a fan of the US 40s & 50s Hollywood movies. I just recently discovered these 2 ladies and I recommend this double feature CD which is a reissue of 2 LP albums recorded in the 50s by 2 actresses:
- LIZABETH SCOTT, who starred most of the time as a sultry femme fatale & vamp & villain in great 40s and 50s noir movies genre, was a sexy subtle combination of Monroe & Bacall & Veronica Lake and had really the perfect ideal sexy voice for cosy jazz lounge ambiances.
- French actress DENISE DARCEL who made it in the USA was more the curvaceaous lively voluptuous sexpot with good humour.

SCOTT had a short film career from 1945 to 1957 and DARCEL did a dozen of films in the 50s. SCOTT has really demonstrated a talent as a singer (oddly enough,when she played nightclub singers in several noir movies her own singing was dubbed by other vocalists !). DENISE DARCEL took the opportunity to sing and you'll listen to a reflection of her cabaret programme (sometimes 1 or 2 slightly risqué songs yet still performed with the aura she was known for and with her really innate charm).

What a great idea to combine on the same CD 2 LPs which had never been realeased before on CDs ! Although they had little in common in their screen personas beside the fact that they were somehow renowned - and also cast for - their glamorous and sexual allure, both actresses had actually the same fate : a short film career ending in the 50s, recording of their own LP in the 50s, then forgotten by many people, ultra rare public appearances for decades and yet still alive (DARCEL (83) born in 1925 and SCOTT(86) in 1922 !)...Don't miss these 2 delicious artists please !

This CS is a must have for Hollywood legends fans, sultry vamps and jazz lovers....

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great 2fer, August 20, 2010

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Jay Holder - See all my reviews
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I`ve had expensive, hard to come by records of the LIZABETH album and the sound was usually awful. It`s a pleasure to get it on CD with good sound.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars TWO FABULOUS FIFTIES FEMMES!!, August 17, 2009

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HP Cohen "HP Cohen" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hollywood Ladies Sing (Audio CD)

Thanks once more to Flare Records for preserving two unique LP's that came out of the fifties. Lizabeth Scott and Denise Darcel had nice careers--Scott blossomed in the forties with her great noir-type film vamps in Strange Loves of Martha Ivers, Desert Fury, Dead Reckoning and into the fifties with more interesting film roles. She chose to end her film career with a role opposite Elvis Presley in Loving You, doing only a few TV roles and later another film called Pulp with Michael Caine.

She recorded her only album for VIK and chose some wonderful tunes to warble. (There is a costly VIK CD version from Japan if one can find it.) Her throaty voice was perfect for each of the songs. She does a fine job of He's Funny That Way, I'm In Love Again, Willow Weep For Me and How Did He Look. Legalize My Name is a highlight, as is When A Woman Loves A Man.

She would have been dynamite in a club setting at the time, but never ventured out to do live gigs. She had sultry blonde looks and lots of attitude. Her leading men included Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Alan Ladd, Charlton Heston and Presley. It's great to have this reminder of her on CD.

Darcel was a saucy enchantress who had the only female role in the MGM masterpiece Battleground, which starred Van Johnson. She appeared in a string of MGM films including an Esther Williams musical, Dangerous When Wet, but had her best film roles opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz, a big budget western, and Westward the Women with Robert Taylor, another big western film.

The cover of her only recorded album was extremely scintillating for the time. The tunes are all well chosen for her voice and personality. She also does a version of Legalize My Name. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, My Man and I'm In The Mood For Love are among the highlights. She mingles French and English on several of the songs.

She went on to do many appearances in clubs, on stage and on TV when her film career faded. Her stage work included "Oh Captain" in the role Yvonne DeCarlo did on film (Captain's Paradise), and "Pardon My French."

I got to see her about twenty years ago when she joined the all-star cast of a revival of Sondheim's "Follies" at the Long Beach Civic outside Los Angeles and she still looked great and sounded terrific.

This CD of these two fabulous femmes is highly recommended. This is great nostalgia from an era that was so different.