Songs from the Girl Singer: A Musical Autobiography (1999)

About this title: Rather than rely solely upon its back catalog as usual, Concord has gone the extra mile to make this Clooney career survey a must-buy, raiding the archives of various labels and the singer's own collection for a really valuable two-CD retrospective. Virtually all of the early stuff, where she emerges as a major pop hitmaker from Mitch Miller's Columbia stable, is on the first disc, while the second wraps up her latter-day resurrection as a jazz-tinged diva. Obviously, disc one carries the most fascination; besides being loaded with naive mid-century charm, it shows just how big Clooney was in ... read more

Tracks:

1. Sooner or Later [Gilbert/Wolcott]
2. Bargain Day [Roy]
3. Peach Tree Street [Saunders/Sinatra/Ma]
4. Beautiful Brown Eyes [Delmore/Smith]
5. Come On-A My House [Bagdasarian/Saroyan]
6. Tenderly [Gross/Lawrence]
7. Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) [Berlin]
8. Hey There [Ross/Adler]
9. You're Just in Love [Berlin]
10. Sisters [Berlin]
11. Blue Rose [Ellington]
12. On a Slow Boat to China [Loesser]
13. Ya Got Class [Evans/Livingston]
14. How Will I Remember You [Gross/Sigman]
15. As Time Goes By [Hupfield]
16. God Bless the Child [Herzog/Holiday]
17. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
18. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover [Burton/Kent]
19. Straighten Up and Fly Right [Cole/Mills]
20. Do You Miss New York? [Frishberg]
21. Route 66 [Troup]
22. Mambo Italiano [Merrill]
23. The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) [Bergman/Bergman/Shi]
24. Come Rain or Come Shine [Arlen/Mercer]
25. White Christmas [Berlin]
26. Turn Around [Belafonte/Greene/Re]
27. Fools Rush In [Bloom/Mercer]
28. The Coffee Song [Hilliard/Miles]
29. Secret of Life [Taylor]

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