Customer Reviews

Lonely Girl / Make Love to Me

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This latest twofer from EMI in Britain pairs two of Julie's earliest albums - Lonely girl from 1956 and Make love to me from 1957. Julie is often compared to Peggy Lee and Jeri Southern and it's not difficult to see why. They were all brilliant singing (at times almost whispering) late-night romantic songs of the kind with which this twofer is filled - there are no uptempo songs here. I love all three of these wonderful ladies and have most of their available music.

On this particular twofer (as on many of Julie's albums), you will find plenty of covers of songs from the Great American Songbook. Perhaps the most famous song here is Fools rush in, but Lover man, Body and soul, Where or when, The nearness of you, You're my thrill and others have been covered by plenty of singers down the years. I believe Julie's versions of these songs are among the best, if not actually the best.

If you are mainly familiar with Julie's sixties music, I must tell you that her fifties music was much sparser and more intimate - and therefore, to my ears, even better, though not everybody will share that view. This is an outstanding twofer - the latest in a great series. If you enjoy Julie's music as much as I do, you'll never be able to get enough of it.

This is a great two on one issue from EMI (UK) but it is such a shame that they left off one track from 'Lonely Girl' the original release (and the Italian semi-bootleg cd release) both included the song 'What'll I Do' so why is it not here?
Otherwise I would of given it a FIVE STAR rating.

These Julie London CD's are quite adequate for those faithful London fans. "Lonely Girl" is reminicent of her early recordings with small jazz combos, while "Make Love To Me" finds Julie with a full orchestra, and provides the listener a higher level of recording, which makes her diction much clearer.

I was a relatively young Sgt in the USMC stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, in the mid-50s. At 2AM one morning, I was on radio watch, alone in the radio shack, with a cup of coffee, enjoying the balmy tropical breeze, while monitoring military radio traffic and simultaneously tuned to the local Honolulu station, where, suddenly, this sultry voice began to sing 'Fools Rush In'. I had missed the intro, had no idea who was singing, and could barely wait to finish my shift and head for town to the first record shop I could find, where the knowledgeable owner produced 'Julie Is Her Name', featuring 'Cry Me A River', and 'Lonely Girl', with that amazing 'Fools Rush In'. Over the years I've owned everything the lovely lady ever recorded, convinced that she was truly one of the greatest ever.

I bought the LP's as a teenager in the 1950's. Wanted to have the CD of Make Love to Me since I discarded the LP many years ago. I had taped Lonely Girl and still play it, along with most of her albums. The quality is great here though it's unfortunate that they both were produced before stereo records came out in late 1957. Her talent is timeless. Introduced her to some of my younger friends who are fans of Diana Krall and they all agree that Julie was a superiour singer.