  |
|
|
 |
| The One the Only / Blue Starr |
| Kay Starr |
| első megjelenés éve: 2002 |
|
| (2002)
|
|
CD |
| 3.501 Ft
|
|
| 1. | A Hundred Years From Today
|
| 2. | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
|
| 3. | Glad Rag Doll
|
| 4. | Fit As a Fiddle
|
| 5. | My Buddy
|
| 6. | You Can Depend on Me
|
| 7. | I Want a Little Boy
|
| 8. | I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again
|
| 9. | The Prisoner's Song
|
| 10. | Once More
|
| 11. | Georgia on My Mind
|
| 12. | Jump for Joy
|
| 13. | It's a Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around)
|
| 14. | You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)
|
| 15. | The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Good-Bye)
|
| 16. | We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
|
| 17. | I Really Don't Want to Know
|
| 18. | Blue Starr
|
| 19. | Wedding Bells
|
| 20. | It's Funny to Everyone but Me
|
| 21. | Little White Lies
|
| 22. | Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)
|
| 23. | Blue and Sentimental
|
| 24. | Turn Right [*]
|
| 25. | For Better or Worse [*]
|
| 26. | I Couldn't Care Less [*]
|
Jazz / Vocal; Vocal Jazz
2 LPs on 1 CD:
* THE ONE-THE ONLY (1956)
* BLUE STARR (1957)
Kay Starr was one of the dominant voices in American pop music in the 1950s. Her first release on the RCA Victor label, 1955's "The One - The Only" was produced by RCA staff producer and occaisonal instrumental artist Henri Rene, and features backing by both Harold Mooney and Starr's ex-boss, Joe Venuti. "Blue Starr," from 1957, was produced by Hal Stanley and features the orchestra of Pete King. Includes three bonus tracks.
Al Fichera - Liner Notes
Kay Starr launched her solo career on Capitol Records in the mid-'40s and stayed with that label for a decade. Then, in 1955, she moved to RCA Victor. This discount-priced two-fer CD contains her first two long-players for her new label: The One and Only Kay Starr and Blue Starr. In those days, albums and singles were considered to be separate markets, and the songs featured on singles usually were not included on albums released around the same time. So, Starr hits like "Good and Lonesome" and "Rock and Roll Waltz" are not found here, though the compilers have added as bonus tracks Starr's first two RCA A-side singles, "Turn Right" and "For Better or Worse," and her final RCA single from 1959, "I Couldn't Care Less." The One and Only Kay Starr finds her in typical pre-rock form, using arrangements that call upon rhythm & blues and jump blues to support her emotive singing. The selections may include such standards as "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" and "My Buddy," songs associated with balladeers of the 1920s and '30s, but Starr's approach updates them to the torchy style of the mid-'50s, as she gives them the kind of melodramatic readings typical of her male counterpart, Johnnie Ray. Blue Starr is more of a concept album, the concept being songs of love gone wrong. But that doesn't keep the tempos down, nor does it prevent the singer from having a little fun here and there, her histrionics justified by the lyrics to songs like "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)." As indicated by these two albums, Starr's basic style didn't change just because she spent five years with a different record company. (She would return to Capitol in 1959.) And that's all to the good.
---William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Kay Starr
Active Decades: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Jul 21, 1922 in Dougherty, OK
Genre: Vocal, Jazz
Styles: Swing, Vocal Pop, Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
A solid jazz singer whose early recordings tended to be forgotten after her ascendancy into the commercial sphere during the mid-'50s, Kay Starr was among the first pop singer to capitalize on the "rock fad" with her 1955 novelty "Rock and Roll Waltz." Her biggest hit came with the era-defining "Wheel of Fortune," a prime slice of '50s adult pop with a suitably brassy reading. Born in Oklahoma, she moved to Dallas at a young age and made her debut on radio while still in school. A brief stay with Glenn Miller & His Orchestra precipitated her working with groups led by Bob Crosby, Joe Venuti and finally Charlie Barnet. She recorded a few numbers with Barnet that earned her a solo contract with Capitol.
By 1948, Starr made her Your Hit Parade breakthrough with "You Were Only Foolin' (While I Was Falling in Love)." Subsequent hits like "Hoop-Dee-Doo," "Oh, Babe!" and "I'll Never Be Free" (the latter with Tennessee Ernie Ford) framed her in an emerging vein of the popular market that also looked back to traditional country and folk. In 1952, "Wheel of Fortune" became her biggest hit and one of the signature songs of the '50s pop sound. She struggled to reach a similar chart peak for several years afterwards, though "Comes A-Long A-Love" topped the British charts. With her move to RCA in 1955, though the comical "Rock and Roll Waltz" spent several weeks at number one. It was her last major hit, followed by just one additional Top Ten entry, 1957's "My Heart Reminds Me." By the 1960s, she had begun to concentrate more on performing (especially in Las Vegas) than recording, despite moving back to Capitol in 1961. In the '90s, she played several oldies packages, including the 3 Girls 3 tour with Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting.
---John Bush, All Music Guide |
|
CD bolt, zenei DVD, SACD, BLU-RAY lemez vásárlás és rendelés - Klasszikus zenei CD-k és DVD-különlegességek |  | | Webdesign - Forfour Design |
|
|
