Complete Capitol Collection (2006)

About this title: In 1955, Capitol Records signed Dick Haymes and attempted to do for him what it had done for Frank Sinatra a few years earlier, resurrect his career. Due to a combination of personal and business problems, Haymes had fallen far from his mid-'40s peak, when he was a major rival to Sinatra among the new crop of solo singers emerging from the big bands. The Capitol sojourn led to 12 recording sessions between December 20, 1955, and April 4, 1957, that produced two LPs, Rain or Shine and Moondreams, and a few singles, only one of which, "Two Different Worlds," managed a brief stay in the charts. ... read more

Tracks:

1. It Might as Well Be Spring [Rodgers/Hammerstein]
2. The More I See You [Warren/Gordon]
3. The Very Thought of You [Noble]
4. You'll Never Know [Warren/Gordon]
5. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You [Schwartz/Dietz]
6. How Deep Is the Ocean [Berlin]
7. The Nearness of You [Carmichael/Washingt]
8. Where or When [Rodgers/Hart]
9. Little White Lines [Donaldson]
10. Our Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
11. Love Walked In [Gershwin/Gershwin]
12. Come Rain or Come Shine [Mercer/Arlen]
13. I Never Get Enough of You [Haynes]
14. C'est La Vie [White/Wolfson]
15. Love Is a Great Big Nothin' [Silvers]
16. Two Different Worlds [Frisch/Wayne]
17. Now at Last [Outtake] [Haynes]
18. Now at Last [Haynes]
19. Rainbow's End [Outtake] [Webster/Pober]
20. Rainbow's End [Webster/Pober]
21. If I Should Lose You [Robin/Rainger]
22. You Don't Know What Love Is [Raye/DePaul]
23. Imagination [Burke/VanHeusen]
24. Skylark [Carmichael/Mercer]
25. Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain?) [Berlin]
26. What's New [Haggart/Burke]
27. The Way You Look Tonight [Fields/Kern]
28. Then I'll Be Tired of You [Harburg/Schwartz]
29. I Like the Likes of You [Harburg/Duke]
30. Moonlight Becomes You [VanHeusen/Burke]
31. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [Arlen/Koehler]
32. When I Fall in Love [Heyman/Young]
33. Never Leave Me [Jenkins]
34. New York's My Home [Jenkins]
35. My Love for Carmen [Outtake] [Gleason]
36. My Love for Carmen [Gleason]

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