Simple and Sweet: The Best of Ginny Simms

Simple and Sweet: The Best of Ginny Simms

ASIN: B0007QS3EC

Track Listings

1. Girl on the Little Blue Plate

2. I'll Bet You Tell That to All the Girls

3. For Sentimental Reasons

4. You Can't Sleep Up Here

5. Who?

6. Simple and Sweet

7. You Go to My Head

8. I Won't Go Home

9. Mighty Lak a Rose

10. Lamp Is Low

11. Concert in the Park

12. It Must Have Been Two Other People

13. What's New?

14. With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair

15. Do I Love You?

16. St. Louis Blues

17. Friendship

18. You, You Darlin'

19. Fools Rush In

20. We'll Meet Again

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

THE GIRL ON THE LITTLE BLUE PLATE
ILL BET YOU TELL THAT TO ALL THE GIRLS
FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
YOU CANT SLEEP UP HERE
WHO?
SIMPLE AND SWEET
YOU GO TO MY HEAD
I WONT GO HOME
MIGHTY LAK A ROSE
THE LAMP IS LOW
A CONCERT IN THE PARK
IT MUST HAVE BEEN TWO OTHER PEOPLE
WHATS NEW?
WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN IN YOUR HAIR
DO I LOVE YOU?
ST. LOUIS BLUES
FRIENDSHIP
YOU, YOU DARLIN
FOOLS RUSH IN (WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD)
WELL MEET AGAIN
KNEE-DEEP IN STARDUST
I LOVE YOU MORE, MORE EVERY DAY
YO TE AMO, OH! BABY
HOW LONG DID I DREAM?
THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS AND STRIPES

Customer Reviews:

Perfect pitch, perfect voice, perfect cd!.......2005-12-22

Ginny Simms was the best singer to come out of teh late 1930's, and continue into the 40's. She sang with perfect intonation, and has one of the sweetest voices of the period. She had knack of turning dreadful material into something spectacular without sounding like the song was beaneath her singing it. She is the dictionary definition of "song stylist", she has more style, then any other girl singer of the period. Really only Connee Boswell or Frances Langford were on her same level of singing. This cd is one of the few legit releases and should be acquired by any fans of 30's pop vocals.

Approved by Kyser historian, but..........2005-04-18

This is a very nice collection w/ some rarities, but has its flaws. The good news is the first song Simms cut w/ Kay Kyser's band is here (THE GIRL ON THE LITTLE BLUE PLATE) and there ARE some alternate takes, including some that I think got past producer Dan Rivard, including ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT RHYTHM.The musical arrangement is the same, but the vocal phrasing is just different enough to tell. The early boy singer before Harry Babbitt was BILL 'SMILIN' STOKER. He's referred to here every time as BILL STOKES. C'mon guys!. If that was YOUR Granddad it would matter! The liner notes by Gary Theroux are wrong in some spots (like they were in the KK collection last year FUN W/ THE OLD PROFESSOR when he called CAROLINA BLUES, Kyser's last film, CAROLINA MOON (sheesh...)Here Theroux states that Simms returned to the fold briefly in '43 in the KK film AROUND THE WORLD. Not so, Theroux! After Ginny left in '41 she never returned. He also states that Kyser was shy and commitment-phobic. Kyser was a very private man, true, but not shy, and in '44 married one of the most beautiful women in the world, Georgia Carroll, a marriage that lasted 40 years. The cleaned-up sound is nice and crisp, but as a sound engineer of 20 years I must note that losing some of the surface noise also took away some of the vocal warmth and in spots the brass sounds thin and tinny. The art is great, even if the pic under the CD looks like Ginny's got her hand stuck in a Grecian urn! Finally, the pic on the cover, where Ginny, Kay, et al are standing in front of a plane waving to the camera- They don't tell you the band was on its way to Atlanta to play the premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND.Try to get it right next time, guys...

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