Capitol Sings Best Movie Songs (1992) (Cole/Garland/Hope/Lettermen )

Product Summary Label: Emd/capitol UPC: 00077779847525 Release Date: 1/12/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60134671 Item#: MSMQTX Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Lullaby Of Broadway - Helen O'Connell ~ Various Artists 2. You'll Never Know - Nat "King" Cole ~ Various Artists 3. Sweet Leilani - The King Sisters ~ Various Artists 4. Buttons And Bows - Bob Hope/The Clark Sisters ~ Various Artists 5. When You Wish Upon A Star - June Christy ~ Various Artists 6. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - The Lettermen ~ Various Artists 7. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland ~ Various Artists 8. On The Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers ~ Various Artists 9. Last Time I Saw Paris, The - The Four Freshmen ~ Various Artists 10. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening - Mavis Rivers ~ Various Artists 11. Way You Look Tonight, The - Dick Haymes ~ Various Artists 12. All The Way - Keely Smith ~ Various Artists 13. Moon River - Billy May ~ Various Artists 14. Mona Lisa - Nat "King" Cole ~ Various Artists 15. Swinging On A Star - Freddie Slack/The Brian Sisters ~ Various Artists 16. Days Of Wine And Roses - Peggy Lee ~ Various Artists 17. Three Coins In The Fountain - Al Martino ~ Various Artists 18. It Might As Well Be Spring - Margaret Whiting ~ Various Artists 19. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin ~ Various Artists 20. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) - Tex Ritter ~ Various Artists 21. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers ~ Various Artists 22. Call Me Irresponsible - Bobby Darin ~ Various Artists 23. Secret Love - Nancy Wilson ~ Various Artists 24. Continental, The - Nat "King" Cole ~ Various Artists 25. Thanks For The Memory - The Belvederes/Ray Anthony ~ Various Artists 26. Lullaby Of Broadway - Dick Powell/Winifred Shaw ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info All tracks have been digitally remastered. All the featured songs in this compilation received an Academy Award for Best Song. Show tunes provide a multitude of reference material for the traditional vintage jazz or pop vocalist. Then there are movie themes, more familiar to the general public, especially when they were seen later on a modern invention called television. This collection of 26 tracks features a modicum of jazz, but mainly pop tunes from the Golden Era of the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Big bands are prevalent as the backup groups, sometimes including strings, with little instrumental improvisation and stock charts. Among the most famous of these sentimental journey songs are "Moon River" from Billy May, "Call Me Irresponsible" by Bobby Darin, Dean Martin's slightly sloshed "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" and his actually hip "The Continental" (two of three Cole selections heard here). There are also two from Johnny Mandel with the Pied Pipers, "Swinging on a Star" by Freddie Slack, a young Nancy Wilson with "Secret Love," and soupier group vocal pieces from the King Sisters, Bob Hope with the Clark Sisters, the Lettermen, the Four Freshmen, and Ray Anthony with the Belvederes on the apropos "Thanks for the Memory." Overall, this is nothing more than a trip down that lane of reminiscence for those familiar with the old dirt road path to grandma's, now a superhighway. ~ Michael G. Nastos Producer: Brad Benedict (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 07/23/1996 Original Release Date : 1992 Catalog ID : 98475 Label : Capitol/EMI Records Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 75m : 14s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00077779847525    Product Image