This Is What I Call Love

Diahann Carroll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Flare Records/Trad Alive
• ASIN: B000UZ4C54
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Help Yourself

2. I Went to the Village

3. Rebel in Town

4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

5. Don't Cry Baby

6. This Is What I Call Love

7. What's Good About Goodbye

8. My Shining Hour

9. It's Only a Paper Moon

10. A Sleeping Bee

11. You're a Builder-Upper

12. Out of This World

13. Hit the Road to Dreamland

14. Come Rain or Come Shine

15. I Wonder What Became of Me

16. Down with Love

17. Over the Rainbow

18. Let's Take the Long Way Home

Editorial Reviews

This is what we call a find! This 18-track import offers some of the Broadway and film star's earliest recordings, including her album Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen Songs and the very first singles she recorded, featuring the haunting I Went to the Village .

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen Songs, Plus... (Her 1955-1956 RCA Victor Debut Recordings), November 9, 2007

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Caesar M. Warrington (Lansdowne, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is What I Call Love (Audio CD)

1954's Otto Preminger film CARMEN JONES as well as the Harold Arlen/Truman Capote musical HOUSE Of FLOWERS proved that Diahann Carroll had a voice to go along with the pretty face. One of those who took notice of the 19 year old beauty was recording giant RCA Victor.

By 1956 Diahann Carroll recorded 18 songs for RCA: six were put out on singles, while the remaining 12, all Harold Arlen numbers, were released on an LP, appropriately titled DIAHANN CARROLL SINGS HAROLD ARLEN SONGS. These are the 18 songs included here on THIS IS WHAT I CALL LOVE.

Tracks 1-6 are the singles' sides from 1955-1956. Backed by Joe Reisman and his Orchestra, they showcase Diahann experimenting with styles such as jazz and swing and even belting out a blues or two. Although these three singles didn't get much chart success back then, they've stood the test of time and could hold their own with many of the female vocal hits from that time.

Tracks 7-18 are the songs from the 1956 "Harold Arlen" album (this CD also uses the original LP cover for its booklet), with Ralph Burns and his Orchestra in the background. Half of them ("My Shining Hour," "Out Of This World," "Hit the Road to Dreamland," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "I Wonder What Became of Me," "Let's Take the Long Way Home") have lyrics penned by Johnny Mercer. One of the tracks, "A Sleeping Bee," was written by Truman Capote for the aforementioned HOUSE Of FLOWERS.

To see Diahann's earliest recordings put together for the first time on one collection is a treat. The UK label Flare has done an excellent job with this CD.