Vol. 15 - Lee Wiley: La Selection 1931-1940

Lee Wiley, L'Art Vocal (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: L'Art Vocal
• ASIN: B0000045HN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #968,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take It from Me

2. Time on My Hands

3. You've Got Me Crying Again

4. A Hundred Years from Today

5. Repeal the Blues

6. Careless Love

7. Motherless Child

8. Sweet and Low Down

9. My One and Only

10. Someone to Watch over Me

11. How Long Has This Been Going On?

12. But Not for Me

13. Baby's Awake Now

14. Here in My Arms

15. Let's Fly Away

16. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)

17. Hot-House Rose

18. Find Me a Primitive Man

19. You Do Something to Me

20. Looking at You

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lee Wiley--Amazing Style, Sound, and Feeling., April 21, 2000

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Harry Chandless (Hasbrouck Heights, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vol. 15 - Lee Wiley: La Selection 1931-1940 (Audio CD)

She started singing with jazz bands and pop bands at age 15! The two recordings at that age are on this wonderful CD. The songs run through to age 25. Part Cherokee Indian, she sang with what was called a "smoky, intimate...sexy, devastating way." Although she usually sang with the jazzbands and sang like no other jazz singer you have ever heard, she just considered herself a singer. She is on this CD with a variety of groups, but always chose to sing what she wanted and many of the great songs are on this recording,with the Dorseys, Glen Gray, Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon and on the last two cuts with famous jazz pianist, Jess Stacy, who was her husband. On some of Eddie Condon's CDs of the Carnegie Hall concerts you can also hear her sing in later years and usually songs not on this CD. Her death in 1975 was a tragic loss for music.She was so under-rated and unpublicized at the time of her career. Prophetically, here in 1931 she sings "A Hundred Year From Today", "Time on My Hands"(at age 15, with no less beauty than years and years later), and "But Not For Me". It is so difficult not to continue playing this CD over and over. These are 22 priceless songs by Lee Wiley, which may bring joy and tears from you.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poor quality, March 31, 2002

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Jan Mahony (Gulfport, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vol. 15 - Lee Wiley: La Selection 1931-1940 (Audio CD)

too much 'old recording' background noise spoils listening to the magnificent voice of lee wiley for me..jan mahony