London By Night

by Julie London

Overview

1958's London By Night is a typically high-class, high quality Julie London album. The standards and original tunes on the disc are strung together in such a way that they form a narrative of a lovelorn woman finding true love, getting dumped, and wandering around sadly until finding romantic redemption in the final song. London specialized in downbeat numbers and even the positive love songs are languid and moody, so they jibe well with the wrist-slashers that make up the majority of the album. Many of London's albums feature a song or two by her husband, Bobby Troup. London By Night is no exception and it features two Troup originals: the opening track, "Well, Sir," and "Just the Way I Am," which closes with the emotionally naked line "What a fool I was to dream that someday you could love me just the way I am." It's to London's credit that she could deliver lines like this so convincingly when she was famous for her beauty. It also shows how 1950s audiences were dealing with the same issues of self-worth and esteem that modern ones are grappling with, and why classic albums such as London By Night still have a place in music collections. London By Night has been reissued on CD in Japan and in Britain as a budget-priced two-for-one, paired with the equally fine About the Blues. ~ Nick Dedina

Product Details

Release Date:	10/01/2021
Label:	Universal
UPC:	4988031446997
Rank:	76668

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Julie London   Primary Artist,Vocals
Pete King   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Garrett Howard   Photography
Dorothy Heyward   Composer
Herbert W. Spencer   Composer
Lewis Brown   Composer
Earle Hagen   Composer
Joseph Allan McCarthy   Composer
Chris Foster   Composer,Composer
Jonathan Jowett   Composer
Ted Keep   Engineer
Bill Pate   Cover Design
John Lehmann   Composer
Pete King   Performer
Herbert Magidson   Composer
Sammy Fain   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Jack Yellen   Composer
Noel Coward   Composer
Nigel Mullaney   Composer
Marvin Fisher   Composer
Sam Coslow   Composer
Joseph McCarthy   Composer
Bobby Troup   Producer,Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Earle H. Hagen   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Bob Norberg   Remastering