The Complete Arc & Brunswick Sides

Artist: Alice Faye
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617742035124
EAN: 0617742035124
ASIN: B00008A8HP

Release Date: 2003-06-10

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Tracks:

Nasty Man
Here's The Key To My Heart
My Future Star
Yes To You
According To The Moonlight
Oh, I Didnt Know (You'd Get That Way)
Speaking Confidentially
I've Got My Fingers Crossed
I Love To Ride The Horses (on A Merry-Go-Round)
I'm Shooting High
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Goodnight My Love
This Year's Kisses
Slumming On Park Avenue
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Never In A Million Years
It's Swell Of You
There's A Lull In My Life
Wake Up And Live

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Customer Reviews:

Soggy Arrangements.......2006-12-20

Although she's well before my time, I love watching Alice Faye in her movies. Most of the divas from that era do little or nothing for me, but she is a rare exception. There is a lack of pretentiousness in her. She's about the only A list female star from that era whom I find sexy. Sadly, the tunes on this cd suffer from lackluster arrangements. I agree with one reviewer about the same songs being more exciting in the films. I believe that this is so for most of the singers in film from that era. The studio recordings are never as exciting or beautiful as the arrangements on the soundtracks. Don't waste your time with this cd. If you enjoy Alice Faye, buy her movies whenever they are available on dvd. I even own the Shirley Temple one that Alice Faye is in, "Poor Litte Rich Girl," just to watch her.

A Good Place to Begin.......2006-04-15

Just where the site's product reviewer got the idea that Alice Faye dropped out of the public eye after her scrum with Darryl Zanuck in the mid-1940s escapes me---unless he/she was completely unaware of eight years (1946-1953) worth of a radio hit with husband Phil Harris, on which there were perodic little digs at Zanuck and Fox over his perceived duplicity in bumping Faye for Linda Darnell.

But never mind. One of the treats of the Harris-Faye radio hit was Faye's singing voice (she and Harris, himself a singing bandleader, invariably took a musical turn each on the sitcom), whether caressing a ballad or swinging easily. This set of recordings from a decade earlier is a perfect place to start appreciating Faye's singing voice(she isn't exactly an obscurity as an actress), a honeyed contralto which survives the passage of time and sounds alternatively romantic and playful, even if some of the material with which she was saddled during this period of her career doesn't. Even on some of the more banal selections Faye releases a deliciously affecting vocal presence enough to make you think she could have forged a lasting presence if she'd chosen to sing with the popular jazz orchestras of the day.

Come to think of it, it would be a phenomenal treat to mulct an album of the best of Faye's song performances from the old Harris-Faye show, if it hasn't been done already.

A nice idea but already available.......2006-02-17

The life of Alice Faye is a fine example of the fulfillment of the American Dream. Faye was born in New York into genteel poverty. At the age of 13, she joined the chorus and rose through the New York nightclub scene, Broadway and radio (with Rudy Vallee) to become the best example of the girl who sang at the microphone. Her film career began in 1934 and she quickly rose to the top. Her commercial recording career only existed for 4 years from 1933 to 1937.

The idea of creating a complete record of her commercial recordings was sound but unfortunately, this CD contains only one track, "My Future Star", which is not already available on a cheaper CD which contains a few extra soundtracks too.

All of the songs, with the exception of the first 2, appeared in Faye's films, even if not performed by her. The studio recordings sometimes lack the vitality of the filmed versions for obvious reasons. Possibly one exception is the recording of "Wake up And Live" which has a delightful bouncy arrangement.

There is no doubt that a Faye close up enhanced her vocals, if that makes sense, as another reviewer has noted. I suspect too that the Twentieth Century Fox magicians might also have been able to add a few tricks because she does sound better on film than here in general.

Alice Faye's 1930s Commercial Recordings.......2005-12-04

At the top of her career at 20th Century Fox, beginning with the 1938 double-whammy of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "In Old Chicago" (both available on DVD) and ending with the underrated 1945 film noir "Fallen Angel", Alice Faye was contractually forbidden (like Betty Grable would be too) from releasing commercial recordings of the songs performed in her films. This means that, with the exception of "Rose of Washington Square", whose soundtrack was remastered when released on CD, Faye's film recordings (including "You'll Never Know", her best song) are only available in poor quality CDs taken from her movies.

This CD collects her previous commercial recordings, consisting mostly of songs from the films she made between 1934 and 1937. Unfortunately, with a few exceptions, like the Irving Berlin songs (from 1937's "On the Avenue"), "Goodnight, My Love" (from the Shirley Temple vehicle "Stowaway") and "There's a Lull in My Life" (from the radio satire "Wake Up and Live"), most of the songs are on the mediocre side. Faye was also primarily a film star, not a recording star. By that, I mean that she sounds great accompanied by a close-up but only good without one. Still, Alice Faye has a warm, nice deep voice, and fans of 1930s music should enjoy this CD.

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