Falling in Love Again [MCA] (1998)

About this title: La Femme Dietrich's career lasted several decades, and when she inked a deal with Decca Records in 1939, her first recording assignment was to produce an album of her "greatest hits," so already pervasive was her fame. This 16-track collection rounds up selections recorded over a 25-year period between her signing to Decca and her later recordings for Dot and Kapp, all of which parent company MCA-Universal now owns. Besides the definitive, elegant orchestral reading of the title track, Marlene also puts her pipes and personality to other hits like "The Boys in the Backroom" and "You've Got ... read more

Tracks:

1. Falling in Love Again [Hollander/Lerner]
2. The Boys in the Backroom [Hollander/Loesser]
3. You've Got That Look [Hollander/Loesser]
4. I've Been in Love Before [Hollander/Loesser]
5. You Do Something to Me [Porter]
6. You Go to My Head [Coots/Gillespie]
7. Lili Marlene [Leip/Schultze/David]
8. Symphonie [Alstone/Tabet/Berns]
9. Black Market [Hollander]
10. Illusions [Hollander]
11. Another Spring, Another Love [Shayne/Paris]
12. Near You [Craig/Goell]
13. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine [Campbell/Newman]
14. I May Never Go Home Anymore [Brooks/Schonherr]
15. If He Swings by the String [Addison/More]
16. Such Trying Times [Addison/More]

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