Customer Reviews

Sings Jimmy Van Heusen

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I am a late fan of the jazzy Rosie. I bought my first cassette directly form Concord. This was my first CD and every song is a gem. Her jazz sextet is the best I've heard and her choice of material superior. "Imagination" is a song associated with Rosie, and here she gives the song a new intimacy. All songs are followed by solos from her great backup band. After listening to this disc the first time, I continued to purchase all her work for this label.

Ms. Clooney has suffered a great deal and was pretty much without a music label after conquering addiction and other problems. Bing Crosby toured with her at The Concord Jazz Pavilion and other spots and she was signed on. Her first recording was of her late friend Bing's material.

Now that we have lost Rosie, let us be thankful almost all her Concord material is still in print for hours of listening pleasure for the jazz enthusiast and people with good taste in the classic songs by the great American tunesmiths.

Another jewel in her glittering crown.

I have most of Rosemary Clooneys' cds from Concord Jazz. This is probably one of her better cds. The problem with this cd, like so many cds, is that the artists always want to record some songs that people don't care about. I find this time and time again.

There are seven songs on this cd that I think everyone will enjoy, but three duds. For once I would like to see an artist record every song that people really like and want to hear.

As far as the band goes, I think they did a good job with the accompaniment.

Recommendation: I would like to recommend this cd.

I bought this cd because I liked the songs of Jimmy Van Hausen. There weren't that many cds by songwriter so I settled on Rosemary Clooney. I didn't think that particularly disliked her voice on other songs but she murdered these songs. I played them for my mother she could stand to listen to more than three songs.