Sings the Songs of Rodgers & Hart and Harold Arlen

by Lee Wiley

Overview

Lee Wiley pioneered the "songbook" concept, for which a singer exclusively interpreted the work of one composer. Her Gershwin and Cole Porter projects of 1939-40 were major successes, as is the music on this Audiophile reissue. In a fairly straight but strangely sensuous manner, Wiley sings eight songs apiece by Rodgers & Hart and Harold Arlen while backed by a variety of all-star players associated with Eddie Condon, including pianist Joe Bushkin, trumpeters Max Kaminsky, Billy Butterfield and Bobb Hackett, tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman, and Ernie Caceres on baritone and clarinet. Although many of these songs have been interpreted countless times since, few singers have reached the emotional peaks that Lee Wiley scaled in her versions of "A Ship Without a Sail," "Let's Fall In Love," "I've Got the World On a String," "Down With Love" and especially "Glad to Be Unhappy." This set (along with the previous one) belongs in every serious jazz collection. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/11/1994
Label:	Audiophile Records
UPC:	0762247201021
Rank:	98438

Tracks

1. Baby's Awake Now
2. Here in My Arms
3. You Took Advantage of Me
4. A Little Birdie Told Me So
5. A Ship Without a Sail
6. I've Got Five Dollars
7. Glad to Be Unhappy
8. As Though You Were There
9. Let's Fall in Love
10. Moanin' in the Mornin'
11. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
12. Stormy Weather
13. Down With Love
14. I've Got the World on a String
15. Fun to Be Fooled
16. You Said It

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lee Wiley   Primary Artist,Vocals
Max Kaminsky's Orchesta   Primary Artist
Eddie Condon & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Eddie Condon   Primary Artist,Guitar
George Wettling   Drums
Artie Shapiro   Bass
Billy Butterfield   Trumpet
Joe Bushkin   Piano
Lou McGarity   Trombone
Max Kaminsky   Trumpet
Artie Bernstein   Bass
Dave Bowman   Piano
Bob Haggart   Bass
Bobby Hackett   Trumpet
Ernie Caceres   Clarinet,Sax (Baritone)
Bud Freeman   Sax (Tenor)
Buddy Morrow   Trombone

Technical Credits

Ted Koehler   Composer
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Bill Borden   Producer
George H. Buck, Jr.   Producer
Steve Martin   Producer
Reg Stagmaier   Art Direction,Cover Portrait
Paul Wetstein   Arranger
Stanley Green   Text
Wendell Echols   Production Coordination
Larry Carr   Text
Burton Lane   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Jack Yellen   Composer
Jack Towers   Mastering
Frank Driggs   Text
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Weston   Arranger
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Brad Gowans   Arranger