I Love to Sing//With You in Mind [Extra tracks, Import]

Alma Cogan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: EMI Gold
• ASIN: B0000AXL2B
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #508,931 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Love To Sing

2. ...Just A Bowl Of Cherries

3. They Can't Take That Away

4. Taking A Chance On Love

5. Ain't We Got Fun

6. You Do Something To Me

7. Today I Love Everybody

8. Cheek To Cheek

9. If This Isn't Love

10. As Time Goes By

11. Comes Love

12. Blue Skies

13. With You In Mind

14. I Dream Of You..

15. Let's Fall In Love

16. Fly Me To The Moon

17. My Heart Stood Still

18. But Beautiful

19. You'll Never Know

20. All I Do Is Dream Of You

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

UK twofer combines the British vocalist's first two albums, 'I Love To Sing' (1959) & 'With You In Mind' (1961), featuring 25 tracks including 1 bonus track recorded at the same time as With You In Mind but not on the original album, 'When I Fall In Love'. EMI. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful voice, unfortunately mostly unknown in the USA, April 6, 2005

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Bruce R. Gilson (Wheaton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Love to Sing//With You in Mind (Audio CD)

Alma Cogan was unfamiliar to me until a few months ago, when I ordered (on the basis of email conversations with a British friend) another CD of hers. As you can tell if you read that review, I was very favorably impressed by her voice on that CD, and came back to buy this one. While the other CD (advertised as "The Magic of Alma Cogan" on Amazon, but actually currently for sale under the title "The Best of Alma Cogan") consisted of songs that were highly popular in the UK, this CD is a reissue of two LPs she made in 1958 and 1961, primarily of old standards. Both CDs contain many familiar songs, and to someone who likes the old traditional pop music that was around in the 1950s, both will sound good. If you like listening to singers like Doris Day or Rosemary Clooney, try Alma Cogan.

Only two songs overlap between the two CDs: "Cheek to Cheek" and "When I Fall in Love" (the latter one not having been on the original LP, but recorded at the same time as the second LP included in this CD). So you can get both CDs without fear of excessive overlap. I like her version of "Ain't We Got Fun" (the only one where I've heard the verse) and I think she does great jobs on songs like "All I Do Is Dream of You" (Patience & Prudence's hit in the USA, and also done among others by Patti Page) and "I Dream of You More than You Dream I Do" (best known by Perry Como, but I've heard a nice version by Doris Day as well). But of course you have to listen to judge for yourself.

Like "Ain't We Got Fun," "Fly Me to the Moon" is another song with a verse you don't often hear, but Alma sings it. (Unlike "Ain't We Got Fun," I have heard the verse before, but not often!) And the verse really ought to be sung, because it makes more sense of the lyrics. So that's another plus of this CD.

I really liked this CD.