Torchin'/You Are My Love [Original recording remastered, Import]

Frankie Laine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000JOHW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,494 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cottage for Sale

2. Torchin'

3. I Cover the Waterfront

4. Here Lies Love

5. You've Changed

6. Midnight on a Rainy Monday

7. I Get Along Without You Very Well

8. It's the Talk of the Town

9. These Foolish Things

10. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

11. It Only Happens Once

12. Body and Soul

13. You Are My Love

14. I Married an Angel

15. Forever More

16. Second Honeymoon

17. My Kind of Woman

18. Side by Side

19. The Touch of Your Lips

20. Because

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two of the legendary vocalist's original 1958 LPs for Columbia together on one CD. Features the original cover art of each, plus all of the song from each, for a combined total of 24 tracks. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enveloping, May 22, 2008

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This review is from: Torchin: You Are My Love (Audio CD)

There is a tendency to remember Frankie Laine as a purveyor of popular novelty songs. This CD, recorded in 1958, puts that impression to the lie. Torchin' shows off Laine as a popular balladeer, making his distinctive if less than remarkable voice a vehicle for songs about love and loss. One comes away feeling that Laine must have been a perfect night club singer. You Are My Love is a type of album no one would put out today, a tribute of devotion to a woman who either is one's wife or lover or both. The arrangements on this second LP are subtler, with an especially prominent woodwind section. Laine's take on the quasi-religious number Because is better than Perry Como's, in part because of his quiet singing and also because of the spare accompaniment. Try a Little Tenderness is tenderness itself in Laine's rendition. If you enjoy the main roads of American popular singing and want to branch out from Sinatra and Co., this CD by Frankie Laine is a good avenue to try out.