I've been listening to Bohren & der Club of Gore's "Sunset Mission" album a lot while walking lately at night. I love this album. It reminds me a lot of Blue Velvet. Very cool stuff.
Pearl Bailey - 16 Most Requested Songs - 1991 - **
Records, film, broadway, tv, Pearl could do it all. Although her recording career was not that spectacular as far as sales, she was a draw on the night club circuit. Her standing in the jazz community was huge. Started recording professionaly in the 40's and had her only top 10 hit in 1952, with Takes Two To Tango, which is not on this compilation. This is still a very good perspective, but only covers the Columbia years, 1945-1950. Teaming up with Moms Mabley and Hot Lips Page are some classics.
Favorite Track - Legalize My Name
1) Legalize My Name - ***
2) Tired - ** - Jack Benny show YouTube - pearl bailey
3) St. Louis Blues - ** - audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EybmksVdk
4) A Woman's Prerogative - **
5) Baby, It's Cold Outside - *
6) Who - *
7) Don't Ever Leave Me - *
8) Saturday Night Fish Fry - **
9) Personality - ***
10) Ain't She Sweet - **
11) Get It Off Your Mind - ***
12) The Hucklebuck - **
13) They Didn't Believe Me - ***
14) Frankie And Johnny - ***
15) That's Good Enough For Me - ** - audio YouTube - Pearl Bailey - That's Good Enough For Me
16) Here You Come With Love - *** - audio YouTube - (Pearl Bailey)
3's - 6
2's - 7
1's - 3
Rating - 2.2
Last edited by Music Head; 03-10-2009 at 00:23.
Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't fence me in
This big (around 6ft) Aussie Soul/Blues singer headed for the States in the eighties and tried to make a name for herself. Unfortunately, her first album was getting great airplay on the 'Black' FM Stations until they caught sight of the cover and discovered she wasn't 'Black' as assumed but a big, white, Jewish Aussie chick and the airplay immediately ceased.
She did stay and became a fixture on the 'Session Scene' as a backing vocalist. She can be heard on Sting's version of Little Wing.
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