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Margaret Whiting

Title: Collectors' Edition 1942-60 (3CD)

Label: Acrobat

Cat No:ACTRCD9031
Format:CD

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Margaret Whiting, who died in January 2011 at the age of 85, probably never achieved as exalted a place in the pantheon of jazz and easy listening vocalists as she deserved. Quite why that was is hard to say ? maybe the fact that, as the daughter of successful songwriter Richard Whiting, she got her start in the business via his relationship with Johnny Mercer, who had just founded Capitol Records, rather than paying her dues slogging round sleazy clubs, played against her. Maybe, also, her flirtation with country music in the ?50s muddied the perception of her artistic integrity. Whatever the case, suffice to say that she was nevertheless a singer who has had a solid following of loyal fans who appreciate her versatility and effortless ability to interpret the classic repertoire of the day. In her many hits of the ?40s with Capitol, her voice is uncannily reminiscent of both Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, which can hardly be a bad thing, while her country outings for the Dot label are equally evocative of the great performers of that genre. This collection, which was well in preparation at the time of her demise, is designed not as a definitive anthology of her work, but primarily to make available some of the many excellent recordings she made which have not been released or widely distributed on CD, and in the process trace the best and most important of her work during her most active years. It includes, on CD1 and the start of CD2, the majority of her hits for Capitol through to the early ?50s, including some fairly rare material, and on the rest of CD2 and CD3, includes the entirety of her Dot albums from the ?50s, ?Goin? Places?, an excellent big band-based collection, ?Just A Dream?, her country-oriented escapade, and ?Great Hits?, re-recordings of her early material, which make an interesting comparison. In addition, there are selected tracks from her 1960 LP ?Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook?. We hope it is a collection that aficionados will welcome for a variety of reasons, and with nearly 90 tracks it should satisfy the most avid of fans.

Track Listing for Collectors' Edition 1942-60 (3CD)

CD1

My Ideal

That Old Black Magic

Moonlight In Vermont

It Might as Well Be Spring

In Love In Vain

All Through the Day

Come Rain or Come Shine

Alone With me

Passe

Guilty

OhBut I Do

Little Girl Blue

Ask Anyone Who Knows

Old Devil Moon

You Do

Lazy Countryside

Let's Be Sweethearts Again

Pass That Peace Pipe

What's Good About Goodbye

Now is the Hour

Please Don't Kiss Me

St. Louis Blues

The Gypsy In My Soul

A Tree in the Meadow

Far Away Places

Forever and Ever

CD2

Comme Ci Comme Ca

A Wonderful Guy

BabyIt's Cold Outside

Slippin' Around

The Gods Were Angry With Me

My Foolish Heart

Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)

Blind Date

I've Never Been In Love Before

The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)

A Bushel And A Peck

Good Morning Mister Echo

Outside Of Heaven

Come Back To MeJohnny

Where Did He Go?

Waltz To the Blues

An Affair Of The Heart

My Own True Love

The Money Tree

The Party's Over

That's why I Was Born

Kill Me with Kisses

The Waiting Game

There Are Such Things

I'm Alone Because I Love You

Top Of The Moon

Just A Dream

Speak For Yourself

Pretty Eyed Baby

I Cried For You

Hot Spell

You'll Never Know

CD3

The Gypsy In My soul

Sentimental Journey

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home

I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town

Gone With The Wind

Runnin' Wild

Between the Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Over The Rainbow

Hit The Road To Dreamland

East Of The Sun

Song Of The Wanderer

Home

It Might As Well Be Spring

A Tree In A Meadow

A Wonderful Guy

My Ideal

Come Rain Or Come Shine

Baby It's Cold Outside

That Old Black Magic

Moonlight In Vermont

Now Is The hour

Slippin' Around

Faraway Places

My Foolish Heart

Guilty

Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Dearly Beloved

Long Ago And Far Away

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