Memories of You (1998)

About this title: This seven-CD set would rate even higher, if only it weren't for the same problems that mar the preceding Bear Family volume, covering the early years of Rosemary Clooney's career. She had one of the great voices of 1950s pop and jazz music, and when she's doing jazz -- as with Duke Ellington here, on the material off of the Blue Rose album -- or the sophisticated pop that makes up most of her set on the live album from the London Palladium, she's beyond compare: playful, seductive, and totally beguiling musically. And there are other worthwhile tracks here, various singles and B-sides that ... read more

Tracks:

1. Where Will the Dimple Be? [Hoffman/Merrill]
2. Love Among the Young [Gimbel/Wilder]
3. Wake Me [Sager]
4. A Little Girl at Heart [Merrill]
5. From This Moment On [Porter]
6. Sailor Boys Have Talk to Me in English [Hilliard/DeLugg]
7. Go on By [Hamblen]
8. Pet Me, Poppa [Loesser]
9. Pet Me, Poppa [Loesser]
10. You Are My Sunshine [Davis/Mitchell]
11. No Letter Today [Brown]
12. Nobody's Darling But Mine [Davis]
13. I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face [Loewe/Lerner]
14. I Could Have Danced All Night [Loewe/Lerner]
15. I Could Have Danced All Night [Loewe/Lerner]
16. Come Rain or Come Shine [Arlen/Mercer]
17. For You [Burke/Dubin]
18. Always Together [Sigman/Gaze]
19. (Don't That Take The) Rag Offen the Bush [DePaul/Mercer]
20. That's How It Is [Livingston/Evans]
21. It's a Nuisance Having You Around [DePaul/Mercer]
22. Love Is a Feeling [Gimbel/Charlap]
23. Mangos [Libby/Wayne]
24. Independent (On My Own) [Styne/Comden/Green]
25. I'm Glad There Is You [Dorsey/Mertz]
26. Love Letters [Young/Heyman]
27. Everything Happens to Me [Adair/Dennis]
28. I'm in the Mood for Love [McHugh/Fields]
29. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad [Jacquet/Mundy/Still]
30. Together [Brown/Henderson/DeS]
31. What Is There to Say? [Duke/Harburg]
32. How About You? [Lane/Freed]
33. Sing, Little Birdie, Sing [Shapiro/Stallman]
34. Who Dot Mon, Mom? [Stillman/Faith]
35. (You Can't Lose the Blues With) Colors [Berlin]
36. (You Can't Lose the Blues With) Colors [British Version] [Berlin]
37. Love and Learn [Hanratty]
38. A Foggy Day [Gershwin/Gershwin]
39. I'm Glad It's You [Coleman]
40. I Can't Stop Crying [Baker/Baker/Weather]
41. Tonight [Bernstein/Sondheim]
42. Tonight [Bernstein/Sondheim]
43. Love and Affection [Manning/Hoffman]
44. You Don't Know Him [Livingston/Evans]
45. Surprise [Livingston/Evans]
46. You Ol' Son of a Gun [Dickinson/Lloyd/Arn]
47. I Wonder [Gilber]
48. The Chowder Social
49. The Click Song
50. Bargain Day [Roy]
51. Poor Whip, Poor Will (Move Over, Move Over) [Kennedy/Simon]
52. On the First Warm Day [Howard]
53. Too Old to Cut the Mustard [Carlisle]
54. It's Bad for Me [Porter]
55. Goodbye [Jenkins]
56. Memories of You [Razaf/Blake]
57. Me and You [Ellington]
58. Grievin' [Strayhorn/Ellington]
59. I'm Checkin' Out -- Go'om Bye [Strayhorn/Ellington]
60. Blue Rose [Ellington]
61. Sophisticated Lady [Mills/Parish/Elling]
62. Hey Baby [Ellington]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.