My Romance

by Lanza,Mario

Overview

My Romance contains a selection of love songs Mario Lanza sang on The Mario Lanza Show in the early '50s, in addition to two RCA Victor recordings from 1956. The Mario Lanza Show was a Sunday-evening CBS radio program that featured Lanza and guests such as Gisele MacKenzie singing with the Ray Sinatra Orchestra, led by Frank Sinatra's second cousin. Ray Sinatra is the conductor on all of the performances here except for the two 1956 recordings. The songs are studio recordings -- not live audience takes -- so the quality is as high as Lanza's commercial recordings. The anthology isn't exclusively devoted to broadcast recordings, nor does it outwardly emphasize that aspect of the collection. Instead, it is designed to look like nothing more than a collection of love songs, which makes one wonder why Lanza's biggest hit, "Be My Love," was not included. Nonetheless, the songs that are included are romantic, even thrilling, with Lanza's powerful but subtle and well-controlled voice interpreting great songbook selections by Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, and Jerome Kern. Despite the noncommercial origin of most of the recordings, only "All the Things You Are" is previously unreleased. ~ Greg Adams

Product Details

Release Date:	01/09/2001
Label:	Rca Victor
UPC:	0090266375127
Rank:	149015

Tracks

1. All the Things You Are, song (from "Very Warm for May")
2. A Kiss for voice & orchestra
3. The Song Is You, song (from "Music in the Air")
4. Where or When, song (from "Babes in Arms")
5. Love is the Sweetest Thing
6. I'll See You Again, song (from "Bitter Sweet")
7. Night and day, song (from "Gay Divorce")
8. Your Eyes Have Told Me So
9. They Didn't Believe Me, song (from the musical play by S. Jones "The Girl From Utah")
10. If I Loved You, song (from "Carousel")
11. Only a rose
12. You and the Night and the Music
13. Sylvia for voice & piano (or orchestra)
14. On the Street Where You Live, song (from "My Fair Lady")
15. Fools Rush In
16. Beautiful Love
17. I've got you under my skin, song (from the film "Born to Dance")
18. Long Ago (And Far Away), song (from the film "Cover Girl")
19. You Are Love, song (from the 1936 film "Show Boat")
20. I'll Be Seeing You, song
21. My Romance, song (from "Jumbo")

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mario Lanza   Primary Artist,Tenor (Vocal)
The Orchestra   Primary Artist
Irving Aaronson   Primary Artist,Conductor
Jeff Alexander Choir   Primary Artist
Henri Rene   Primary Artist,Conductor
Ray Sinatra   Conductor

Technical Credits

Jon Samuels   Compilation Producer,Reissue Producer
Frederick Loewe   Composer
Irving Kahal   Composer,Lyricist
Jerome Kern   Composer
Ray Noble   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer,Lyricist
Alan Jay Lerner   Composer,Lyricist
Rube Bloom   Composer
Egbert VanAlstyne   Composer
Rudolf Friml   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer,Lyricist
Lorenz Hart   Composer,Lyricist
Marian Conaty   Reissue Engineer
Johnny Mercer   Composer,Lyricist
Howard Dietz   Composer
Phillip Brooks   Composer
Noel Coward   Composer,Lyricist
Ray Sinatra   Composer,Lyricist
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Brian Hooker   Composer,Lyricist
Gus Kahn   Composer
Haven Gillespie   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer,Lyricist
Walter Blaufuss   Composer
Wayne King   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Sammy Fain   Composer
Victor Young   Composer
Oley Speaks   Composer,Lyricist
Janene Higgins   Art Direction
Herbert Reynolds   Composer
Reynolds   Lyricist
Derek Mannering   A&R,Liner Notes
The Orchestra   Performer
Jon M. Samuels   Reissue Producer
Ella Young   Lyricist
Carole Kahn   Lyricist
Vito Torelli   Cover Photo