Singin' In The Rain: Capitol Sings Hollywood, Vol. 20

Singin' In The Rain: Capitol Sings Hollywood, Vol. 20 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Indent Series
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 762185129920
EAN: 0762185129920
ASIN: B000005JGO


Release Date: 1996-07-23

Singin' In The Rain: Capitol Sings Hollywood, Vol. 20


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Tracks:

  1. Singin' In The Rain - Lena Horne
  2. Louise - Dean Martin
  3. It Could Happen To You - Julie London
  4. When Your Lover Has Gone - Keely Smith
  5. Stella By Starlight - Vic Damone
  6. They Can't Take That Away From Me - June Christy
  7. My Foolish Heart - Ethel Ennis
  8. There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder - Bobby Darin
  9. Stormy Weather - Peggy Lee
  10. That Old Feeling - Dinah Washington
  11. Again - Mel Torme
  12. Stuff Like That There - Betty Hutton
  13. I Remember You - Sarah Vaughan
  14. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me - Trudy Richards
  15. Put The Blame On Mame - Mark Murphy
  16. But Beautiful - Nancy Wilson
  17. On Green Dolphin Street - Dakota Staton
  18. My Baby Just Cares For Me - June Hutton
  19. Smile - Nat King Cole
  20. If I Had A Talking Picture Of You - Johnny Mercer & Martha Tilton

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A collection of mostly unfamiliar Hollywood songs sung by Capitol artists.......2006-01-06

Capitol Records has one of the most distinctive buildings in Los Angeles and if a movie shows the city begin destroyed by aliens or tornadoes it usually involves the destruction of the round building that bears the company's name. Capitol was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, the first major label on the West Coast competing with New York City's Columbia, Decca and RCA-Victor. Starting with artists like Paul Whiteman and Martha Tilton, by the end of the decade the label was recording Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Les Brown, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. While the works of Crosby and Sinatra are exempt from the Capitol Sings series, you will always find familiar singers singing familiar songs, as with the title track sung by Lena Horne, as often as you hear unfamiliar songs sung by forgotten singers, such as Ethel Ennis singing "My Foolish Heart."

"Singin' In the Rain: Captiol Sings Hollywood" is Volume 20 in the series and one brings together twenty tracks representing a particular venue (e.g., Broadway) instead of a specific songwriter (e.g., Irving Berlin). Just be aware that if a song originated in a Broadway show that was made into a Hollywood musical then it is exempt from being included in this collection. That would explain why you may well be unfamiliar with most of these twenty songs. "Singin' in the Rain" and "Stormy Weather" are recognizable classics, and the same should be said for Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," sung here by Nat King Cole in one of the best tracks on the album. and June Christy's swing version of "They Can't Take That Away From Me." But after that you may recognize singers like Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Mel Torme more than "Louise," "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," and "Again." Still you will find a few new little gems on this album, what with Sarah Vaughn's "I Remember You" and Nancy Murphy's saucy "Put the Blame on Mame." That last is from the movie "Gilda" (I mention this because I was drawing blanks on the vast majority of these tracks as to what movies they were culled from and this one immediately jumped to my mind, as did the fact that Anita Ellis sang it for Rita Haywroth).

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