And the Angel Sings (2007)

About this title: Born in Corpus Christi, TX and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Martha Tilton was a charming interpreter of popular song whose simple yet stylish delivery placed her in the same pulchritudinous pantheon as Mildred Bailey, Evelyn Wright, Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore and Doris Day. Released about six months after she passed away in December 2006 at the age of 91, Living Era's And the Angel Sings pays respectful homage to Tilton by assembling 24 of her best performances recorded between September 1937 and August 1955. Opening with Ziggy Elman's "And the Angels Sing," a song she recorded at least four ... read more

Tracks:

1. And the Angels Sing [Traditional/Mercer]
2. Bob White, Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight? [Hanighen/Mercer]
3. You Took the Words Right out of My Heart [From the Big Broadcast of 193 [Rainger/Robin]
4. Loch Lomond [Traditional]
5. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen [From Love, Honor and Behave] [Secunda/Cahn/Chapli]
6. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart [Ellington/Mills/Nem]
7. What Goes on Here in My Heart? [From Give Me a Sailor] [Rainger/Robin]
8. I've Got a Date with a Dream [From My Lucky Star] [Revel/Gordon]
9. This Can't Be Love [From the Boys from Syracuse] [Rodgers/Hart]
10. Now We Know [Robison/Mayer]
11. Easy Street [Jones]
12. Drum Boogie [From Ball of Fire] [Krupa/Eldridge]
13. Serenade in Blue [From Orchestra Wives] [Warren/Gordon]
14. I'll Walk Alone [Styne/Cahn]
15. A Stranger in Town [Torme]
16. I Should Care [From Thrill of a Romance] [Stordahl/Weston/Cah]
17. Beyond the Blue Horizon [Monte Carlo] [Whiting/Harling/Rob]
18. A Fine Romance [From Swing Time] [Kern/Fields]
19. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? [From Finian's Rainbow] [Lane/Harburg]
20. I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder [Hutchinson]
21. Blow, Gabriel, Blow [From Anything Goes] [Porter]
22. Lilli Marlene [Schultze/Connor]
23. Misirlou [Roubanis/Wise/Leeds]
24. You Turned the Tables on Me [From Sing, Baby, Sing] [Alter/Mitchell]

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