Rosemary Clooney
Box 3 of Bear Family Set
Release Date: May 17, 2000
ISBN NUMMER: 3-89795-702-7
This third volume of the Bear Family trilogy tracing the recording career of Rosemary Clooney picks up the story in 1958, the year she ended her association with Columbia - the label that had established her as one of the world’s most popular girl singers. As the 1950s drew to a close, her career entered a new phase which would soon establish her as one of the foremost album artists on such prestigious labels as MGM, Coral, RCA, Reprise and Capitol.
The years 1958-1968 found Rosemary mature vocally and reach the very pinnacle of artistic achievement as she interpreted the standard generation songbook in classic albums arranged by such luminaries as Billy May and Nelson Riddle. Fancy Meeting You Here (in duet with Bing Crosby) and Rosie Solves The Swinging Riddle are familiar examples, but here too is the chance to rediscover her forays into the worlds of Spiritual Music (Hymns From The Heart), Americana (How The West Was Won), Latin Rhythms (A Touch Of Tabasco) and the Nashville Sound (Country Hits From The Heart). The rich legacy of songs from Broadway musicals is visited in her selections from box office smashes such as Finian’s Rainbow and South Pacific as well as the less familiar Oh, Captain and Whoop-Up.
This 8-CD compendium is topped off with a lavishly illustrated __-page hardcover book containing a fully detailed discography and Deborah Grace Winer’s biography of the Clooney years 1958 to 1968. A thrilling portrait of one of the most highly regarded singers the world has ever known.
CD 1: Captain Henry St. James (& Jose Ferrer) - A Very Proper Town (& Jose Ferrer) - Life Does A Man A Favor (& Jose Ferrer) - Give It All You Got (& Jose Ferrer) - Three Paradises (Jose Ferrer) - Keep It Simple - Morning Music Of Montmartre - Hey, Madame (& Jose Ferrer) - It’s Never Quite The Same (Jose Ferrer) - We’re Not Children (& Jose Ferrer) - Surprise (Jud Conlon Singers) - All The Time (Jose Ferrer) - You’re So Right For Me (& Jose Ferrer) - Brazil/Here We Are (Face To Face Again) (& Bing Crosby) - How About You (& Bing Crosby) - Love Won’t Let You Get Away (& Bing Crosby) - On A Slow Boat To China (& Bing Crosby) - It Happened In Monterey (& Bing Crosby) - Hindustan (& Bing Crosby) - Fancy Meeting You Here (& Bing Crosby) - Calcutta (& Bing Crosby) - Isle Of Capri (& Bing Crosby) - Say ‘Si Si’ (Para Vigo Me Voy) (& Bing Crosby) - You Came A Long Way From St. Louis/You Can Take The Boy Out Of The Country (& Bing Crosby) - I Can’t Get Started (& Bing Crosby) - Love Won’t Let You Get Away (short version) (& Bing Crosby) - Keep It Simple (long version) - Ford Thunderbird Promo
CD 2: It’s A Boy - The Loudenboomer Bird (Early Ev’ry Morning) - Love, Look Away - Diga Me (Deega May - Tell Me) - I Love Him, That’s Why (& Jose Ferrer) - Flattery (& Jose Ferrer) - Love Eyes - Sorry For Myself - What I Mean To Say - ‘Deed I Do - You Took Advantage Of Me - Blue Moon - Sing You Sinners - A Touch Of The Blues - I’m Beginning To See The Light - Goody, Goody - Too Close For Comfort - Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me - Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town) - I Wish I Were In Love Again - Sunday In Savannah - This Can’t Be Love - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues - Ain’t A-Hankerin’ - Protection - The Story Of Celeste
CD 3: The Little Brown Church In The Vale - The Old Rugged Cross - What A Friend We Have In Jesus - Onward Christian Soldiers - Living For Jesus - In The Garden - It Is No Secret - Jesus Loves Me - Softly And Tenderly - Sweet Hour Of Prayer - Abide With Me - Rock Of Ages - Nearer, My God, To Thee - The Ninety And Nine - Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu Paloma (& Perez Prado) - Corazon De Melon (Watermelon Heart) (& Perez Prado) - Like A Woman (& Perez Prado) - Mack The Knife (& Perez Prado) - In A Little Spanish Town (& Perez Prado) - I Only Have Eyes For You (& Perez Prado) - I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ (& Perez Prado) - Bali Ha’i (& Perez Prado) - Magic Is The Moonlight (& Perez Prado) - Adios (& Perez Prado) - Sway (& Perez Prado) - You Do Something To Me (& Perez Prado) - Summertime Love (& Perez Prado) - Amor (& Perez Prado) - The Wonderful Season Of Love (demo) - The Wonderful Season Of Love (soundtrack)
CD 4: Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! / Everything’s Coming Up Roses - Give Me The Simple Life - Bye Bye Blackbird - Aren’t You Glad You’re You - You Got - Too Marvelous For Words - Something’s Gotta Give - Hooray For Love - Mean To Me - Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’ - It Could Happen To You - Makin’ Whoopee - Always Be In Love - With The Night - Looking For A Boy - With You And Me - Swing Me - Danke Schön - Many A Wonderful Moment - Vaya Vaya (Go, My Darling, Go) - Swing Me - What Takes My Fancy - Hey, Look Me Over - Danke Schön (single vocal) - Vaya Vaya (Go, My Darling, Go) (single vocal)
CD 5: I Ain’t Got Nobody - Shine On Harvest Moon - Some Of These Days - You Took Advantage Of Me - Angry - How Am I To Know? - April In Paris - Limehouse Blues - Get Me To The Church On Time - By Myself - Cabin In The Sky - I Get Along Without You Very Well - How Will I Remember You - I Wish It So - It Never Entered My Mind - Yours Sincerely - Someone To Watch Over Me - More Than You Know - If I Forget You - Invitation - You Started Something - Why Shouldn’t I? - Imagination - Find The Way
CD 6: The Wonderful Season Of Love - Without Love - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Beautiful Brown Eyes - Give Myself A Party - If I Can Stay Away Long Enough - Love Has Come My Way - Kiss Him For Me - How’s The World Treating You - Please Help Me I’m Falling - Just Because - Any Time - I Really Don’t Want To Know - This Ole House - Bound For The Promised Land (& Bing Crosby) - Crossing The Plains (& Bing Crosby) - Sweet Betsy From Pike - Buffalo Gals (& Bing Crosby) - Green Grow The Lilacs (& Bing Crosby) - California Ball - A Railroader’s Bride I’ll Be - Skip To My Lou (& Bing Crosby) - Careless Love - Jennie Jenkins - The Rose And The Butterfly - Mixed Emotions - I Will Follow You (Mono) - A Hundred Years From Today - The Prisoner’s Song - I Will Follow You (Stereo) - Some Enchanted Evening
CD 7: How Are Things In Glocca Morra - Look To The Rainbow - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - All Alone - Miss Otis Regrets - Hello Faithless - Baby, The Ball Is Over - Thanks For Nothing (At All) - Black Coffee - Just One Of Those Things - The Man That Got Away - A Good Man Is Hard To Find - I Got A Right To Sing The Blues - Careless Love - The Rules Of The Road - That Travelin’ Two-Beat (& Bing Crosby) - The Poor People Of Paris (& Bing Crosby) - Adios Senorita (& Bing Crosby) - Roamin’ In The Gloamin’ (& Bing Crosby) - Come To The Mardi Gras (& Bing Crosby) - Ciao, Ciao, Bambina (& Bing Crosby) - The Daughter Of Molly Malone (& Bing Crosby) - I Get Ideas (& Bing Crosby) - Hear That Band (& Bing Crosby) - The New Vienna Woods (& Bing Crosby) - Knees Up, Mother Brown (& Bing Crosby) - That Travelin’ Two-Beat (& Bing Crosby) (Reprise)
CD 8: Stay Awake - A Spoonful Of Sugar - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - To Each His Own - I Need A Broken Heart (Like A Hole In The Head) - Round And Round - The Girl In The Mirror - The Belle Of Old Baghdad - Let Me Down Easy - One Less Bell To Answer - Too Little Time - Prologue - The Captain’s Paradises (& Jose Ferrer) - A Very Proper Town (& Jose Ferrer) - Life Does A Man A Favor (Home) (& Jose Ferrer) - Life Does A Man A Favor (Sea) (Jose Ferrer & unidentified male vocalist) - Life Does A Man A Favor (Paree) (& Jose Ferrer) - Captain Henry St. James (chorus) - Hey, Madame (Jose Ferrer) - Surprise - We’re Not Children (& Jose Ferrer) - You’re So Right For Me (& Jose Ferrer) - You Don’t Know Him (& Jose Ferrer) - Anywhere But Here (& Jose Ferrer) - You’re Just In Love (& Jose Ferrer) - The Nearness Of You