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Title
They Sold A Million
Subtitle
60 million-sellers
Artist
Various Artists |
Format:Three CD Box Set
Cat. No.:SOHOCD053
Barcode:698458155320
Playing Time:3 hrs
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You will know these songs - somewhere, somehow you will have heard
them: 60 classic, guaranteed million-sellers from a golden era of
popular music. |
Track
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Ella Fitzgerald – A-Tisket A-Tasket |
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Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall |
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Dinah Shore – Blues In The Night |
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Teresa Brewer – Music! Music! Music! |
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Teresa Brewer – Till I Waltz Again With You |
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Jo Stafford – You Belong To Me |
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Rosemary Clooney – Come On A-My House |
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Rosemary Clooney – Botch-A-Me |
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Rosemary Clooney – Tenderly |
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Georgia Gibbs – Kiss Of Fire |
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Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy – Indian Love Call |
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Eileen Barton – If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked A Cake |
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Patti Page – All My Love |
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Patti Page – Tennessee Waltz |
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Patti Page - With My Eyes Wide Open, I’m Dreaming |
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Andrews Sisters – I Can Dream, Can’t I? |
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Andrews Sisters – Bei Mir Bist Du Schon |
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Andrews Sisters – Rum & Coca Cola |
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Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby – Pistol Packin’ Mama |
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Bing Crosby – Moonlight Becomes You |
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Bing Crosby – Swinging On a Star |
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Bing Crosby – McNamara’s Band |
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Bing Crosby & Al Jolson – Alexander’s Ragtime Band |
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Al Jolson – The Anniversary Song |
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Tommy Dorsey – Opus No.1 |
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Tommy Dorsey – Boogie Woogie |
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Percy Faith – Where Is Your Heart? |
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David Rose – Holiday For Strings |
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Mantovani – Lonely Ballerina |
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Anton Karas – Harry Lime Theme |
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Leroy Anderson – Blue Tango |
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Harry James – Ciriciribin |
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Harry James – You Made Me Love You |
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Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul |
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Artie Shaw – Begin The Beguine |
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Artie Shaw – Nightmare |
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Glenn Miller – In The Mood |
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Glenn Miller – American Patrol |
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Glenn Miller – Little Brown Jug |
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Glenn Miller – Chattanooga Choo Choo |
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Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade |
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Tommy Dorsey – Opus No.1 |
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Tommy Dorsey – Boogie Woogie |
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Percy Faith – Where Is Your Heart? |
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David Rose – Holiday For Strings |
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Mantovani – Lonely Ballerina |
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Anton Karas – Harry Lime Theme |
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Leroy Anderson – Blue Tango |
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Harry James – Ciriciribin |
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Harry James – You Made Me Love You |
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Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul |
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Artie Shaw – Begin The Beguine |
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Artie Shaw – Nightmare |
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CD1: The Girls
1. Ella Fitzgerald – A-Tisket A-Tasket
A novelty song with music by Al Feldman, this 1938 recording
provided the young Ella with significant commercial impact as, unlike
contemporary Billie Holiday, she paid keen attention to the popular
taste for her early repertoire. It followed 1935’s “Love And Kisses”,
also with her guardian Chick Webb’s band.
2. Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
Pensively performed by Ella on one of her many experiments with
duets or other groups, most famously with Louis Armstrong, but also
compatibly with Louis Jordan, the Delta Rhythm Boys or here with the
Ink Spots, where Ella’s soft vocals gell perfectly.
3. Peggy Lee – Lover
Lee scored ten years earlier with the sultry “Why Don’t You Do
Right?”, based on a Lil Green blues, but 1952’s exotic “Lover” was
startlingly unique. Rodgers & Hart wrote the song as a gentle
ballad but Lee gave it a dynamic Latin treatment which utterly
transformed it.
4. Dinah Shore – Blues In The Night
Lee also recorded this, but it was a hit for Dinah Shore who
progressed from vocalist for Xavier Cugat, using “Dinah” as her theme,
to 1941’s silky account of this song written by the partnership of
Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, and included in ‘The Birth Of The
Blues’ movie.
5. Teresa Brewer – Music! Music! Music!
One of the group of early 50s vocalists, like Frankie Laine and Kay
Starr, who developed a slightly tougher tone to the 40s crooners,
Brewer also projected a feisty image. A child star who made her debut
aged two, she was still a teenager when she recorded this in 1950.
6. Teresa Brewer – Till I Waltz Again With You
After Rock & Roll intervened, Brewer graduated to the Las Vegas
cabaret circuit, but re-emerged in the 70s to sing with Duke Ellington
and Count Basie. Even more unpredictably, 1987 saw the album “In
London” with Rockney duo Chas & Dave.
7. Jo Stafford – You Belong To Me
Pee Wee King was the Polish cowboy, a rare breed, who co-wrote this
1952 hit also covered by Pat Boone. A member of Dorsey’s Pied Pipers
who backed the young Sinatra, Stafford was also successfully given
country material like Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya” by Columbia’s shrewd
Mitch Miller.
8. Rosemary Clooney – Come On A-My House
Mitch Miller also guided the career of actor George Clooney’s aunt
Rosemary from 1949, and two years later it paid off with this
composition – which she personally disliked at first – distinguished by
its amplified harpsichord backing.
9. Rosemary Clooney – Botch-A-Me
Clooney’s first success was typical of her jaunty early 50s novelty
material. Like Jo Stafford, she scored with a Hank Williams song –
“Half As Much” – and her 1954 version of “This Ole House” was revived
by Shakin’ Stevens in 1981.
10. Rosemary Clooney – Tenderly
“Tenderly” became her theme song, a gentle ballad covered by Billy
Eckstine and Nat King Cole. Clooney re-invented herself as a respected
jazz singer with 1979’s “Here’s To My Lady” (a tribute to Billie
Holiday), and subsequent eclectic collaborations with Linda Ronstadt
and Diana Krall.
11. Georgia Gibbs – Kiss Of Fire
Gibbs was a veteran big band singer with all the requisite
showmanship, who graduated from the bands of Frankie Trumbauer and
Artie Shaw. “Kiss Of Fire” was her major hit, adapted from an Argentine
tango called “El Choclo” by A.G. Villoido.
12. Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy – Indian Love Call
Popular performers in eight camp operetta movies, 1935’s Victor
Herbert production ‘Naughty Marietta’ bestowed instant stardom. Dubbed
‘America’s Singing Sweethearts’, they followed with ‘Rose Marie’, which
included the first show tune million-seller “Indian Love Call”.
13. Eileen Barton – If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked A Cake
A Brooklyn-born vaudevillian, Barton was another to debut aged two,
going on to work on Eddie Cantor and Milton Berle radio shows. This
1950 novelty hit was co-written by Bob Merrill and sold to an astute
Chicago publisher for $300.
14. Patti Page – All My Love
1950’s “All My Love” was a French song with English lyrics by
Mitchell Parish, later to do the same for Dean Martin’s “Volare”. Page
also covered “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine”, a favourite of both
Dean Martin and Elvis Presley.
15. Patti Page – Tennessee Waltz
Page had 14 big sellers in the 50s, but is most famous for the
innovative double-tracking studio technique used on Pee Wee King’s
“Tennessee Waltz”. Originally a country singer, she changed her name
from Clara Ann Fowler to Patti Page after radio sponsors ‘Page Milk’.
16. Patti Page – With My Eyes Wide Open, I’m Dreaming
By the mid 50s, Page rivalled Kay Starr and Rosemary Clooney among
popular female vocalists, with 1953’s “Doggie In The Window” remaining
at No.1 for eight weeks. Four years earlier, this Mack Gordon movie
song gave her her first million-seller.
17. The Andrew Sisters – I Can Dream, Can’t I?
Patti Andrews took the lead on this Sammy Fain composition to
outshine the version by Al Bowlly (who also recorded Page’s previous
song here). The three sisters succeeded the Boswell Sisters as the
leading girl group of their era, selling over 30 million records in
total and becoming as popular as Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn in wartime.
18. The Andrew Sisters – Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
This 1937 Sammy Cahn adaptation of an old Yiddish melody gave the
girls their big break. It transformed them into Forces’ Sweethearts,
remembered long afterwards as Bette Midler illustrated on her 1973
revival of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”.
19. The Andrews Sisters – Rum & Coca Cola
This 1944 hit was considered racy at the time, and the UK version
had to be re-titled “Rum & Limonada”. Maxene Andrews later became
Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise Lodge in Nevada, teaching speech and
drama.
20. The Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby – Pistol Packin’ Mama
Daughters of Norwegian and Greek parents, the Minneapolis-raised
harmony trio always had a leaning towards country music. They enjoyed a
duet with Ernest Tubb and a greater success with Crosby on their 1943
cover of this Al Dexter song, turned into Rock ‘n’ Roll by Gene Vincent
in 1960.
CD2: The Boys
1. Bing Crosby – Moonlight Becomes You
Harry Crosby acquired his nickname Bing from comic-strip character
Bingo, who also had large, floppy ears. “Moonlight Becomes You” was
performed in 1942’s movie ‘The Road To Morroco’, one of seven of the
celebrated ‘Road’ series, as a romantic serenade to Dorothy Lamour; it
was a Jimmy Van Heusen song ideally suited to Bing’s seduction,
invariably upstaged by wisecracking co-star Bob Hope.
2. Bing Crosby – Swinging On a Star
Another Van Heusen song, this was crooned by Crosby in 1945’s
‘Going My Way’, where he also won an acting Oscar for his portrayal of
a well-meaning priest working with the poor in the slums of New York
City. Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva turned it into a pop hit in 1963.
3. Bing Crosby – McNamara’s Band
This was a rousing old composition which permitted the Old Groaner
to indulge his love for both Irish traditional music and jazz on this
1945 success. Originally recorded under the official title of ‘Bing
Crosby and the Jesters’, it appeared in the movie ‘I’ll Get By’.
4. Bing Crosby & Al Jolson – Alexander’s Ragtime Band
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” was Irving Berlin’s first major hit in
1911. Bessie Smith made a typically ebullient version of it, as did
Ethel Merman in ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’. Crosby
recorded it first with the Boswell Sisters in 1938 and again with Al
Jolson nine years later.
5. Al Jolson – The Anniversary Song
Jolson co-wrote this in an adaptation from ‘Danube Waves’. He
enjoyed a long career spanning several decades, highlighted by 1927’s
‘The Jazz Singer’ which launched sound movies and 1946’s ‘The Jolson
Story’, featuring five million-sellers including “The Anniversary
Song”.
6. The Ink Spots – To Each His Own
Bill Kenny’s high tenor and Hoppy Jones’s deep-toned vocal (later
replaced by Kenny’s similar sounding brother Herb) gave this harmony
quartet their distinctively gentle, gospel-influenced sound. A 1946
hit, it was later covered by the Platters who also appealed to the
mainstream audience.
7. The Mills Brothers – Paper Doll
Like the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers created an accessibly sweet
sound, and both these groups were significant precursors of the
street-corner singing groups of the 50s who came to create the genre
known as Doo-Wop. The beginnings of Rock ‘n’ Roll in the early 50s
combined an increasingly hip image with the traditional template.
8. The Mills Brothers – You Always Hurt The One You Love
“Paper Doll” became the Mills Brothers’ theme tune and they later
scored with 1952’s “Glow Worm”, an earlier hit for zany bandleader
Spike Jones. The quartet’s 1944 version of “You Always Hurt The One You
Love” was covered by Connie Francis and Clarence “Frogman” Henry, but
most memorably crucified by Jones.
9. Spike Jones – Cocktails For Two
Writer Sam Coslow complained that Spike Jones had “desecrated” one
of his most moving songs, but that was the whole point of Jones’s
accomplished satires. Often opening with straight playing, the familiar
use of klaxons, kazoos, horns, pistols and a latrinophone – a lavatory
seat strung with piano wire – would soon transform the piece.
10. Spike Jones – Der Fueher’s Face
The first hit for Spike and the City Slickers in 1942, this was
employed in a wartime Disney propaganda cartoon. “It sounded like
bedlam, but it was organized bedlam”, said one band member of the style
which clearly influenced Stan Freberg, Frank Zappa and the Bonzo Dog
Doo Dah Band.
11. Dick Haymes – You’ll Never Know
This Mack Gordon / Harry Warren ballad won 1943’s Academy Award and
was also recorded by Haymes’s contemporary rival Frank Sinatra.
Haymes’s smooth baritone, in the style of Crosby, permitted him twice
to replace Sinatra as band vocalist, for Harry James and Tommy Dorsey,
before solo acclaim beckoned; “You’ll Never Know” was an immediate
triumph and a highlight of ‘Hello, ‘Frisco, Hello’.
12. Mario Lanza – Be My Love
Eerily anticipating Elvis Presley’s fate, Lanza died young from
chronic obesity and an excess of pills, but enjoyed movie hits in the
early 50s. Sammy Cahn’s “Be My Love”, the 1950 smash which became his
theme song, featured in the MGM movie, ‘The Toa | |
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