The Very Best of Julie London [2006]

by Julie London

Overview

The Very Best of Julie London offers an extensive overview of London's recording career with 50 selections she cut for Liberty Records between 1955 and 1969. The tracks are not newly remastered for the most part, but are taken from EMI's series of import two-fers and the domestic reissues Ron Furmanek and Bob Norberg produced in the early '90s. London was an album artist, not a singles artist -- she had only one hit single in her long career -- but she was a consistent favorite with adult contemporary and vocal jazz audiences and recorded over 20 LPs. Her albums often sustained a certain mood or assembled songs around a theme, but The Very Best of Julie London chops up her albums and rearranges the songs in no particular order -- the repertoire and sequencing seem almost random. The booklet provides no recording dates or session information, but readers can learn from which albums most of the tracks hail by wading through the liner notes. The anthology is useful for those who would like to sample London's 1960s album catalog without investing in several import CDs, but Julie Is Her Name, Vols. 1-2 remains the best introduction to the music of this sultry, sexy vocalist. ~ Greg Adams

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2006
Label:	Capitol/Emi Records
UPC:	0094631212925
Rank:	64502

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
2. Cry Me a River
3. Blue Moon
4. Sway
5. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
6. When I Fall in Love
7. Can't Help Lovin' That Man
8. Misty
9. Lover Man
10. Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)
11. Girl Talk
12. Let There Be Love
13. Wives and Lovers
14. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
15. Makin' Whoopee
16. The Good Life
17. The More I See You
18. A Taste of Honey
19. Go Slow
20. You and the Night and the Music
21. Black Coffee
22. Basin Street Blues
23. Blues in the Night
24. 'Round Midnight
25. As Time Goes By

Disc 2

26. Can't Get Used to Losing You
27. September in the Rain
28. Mad About the Boy
29. Love Letters
30. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
31. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
32. Goody Goody
33. The Days of Wine and Roses
34. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
35. Light My Fire
36. Here's That Rainy Day
37. Body and Soul
38. God Bless the Child
39. They Can't Take That Away from Me
40. Our Day Will Come
41. I've Got You Under My Skin
42. The End of the World
43. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
44. Love for Sale
45. Sentimental Journey
46. I've Got a Crush on You
47. Call Me Irresponsible
48. You Made Me Love You
49. Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
50. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Julie London   Primary Artist
Bud Shank Quintet   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Harry Warren   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
Bart Howard   Composer
Norman Gimbel   Composer
Johnny Burke   Composer
Benjamin Homer   Composer
Andrew Day   Design
Chris Peyton   Design
Gavin O'Neill   Photo Retouching
Ric Marlow   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Paul Davis   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Henry Mancini   Composer
Pablo Beltran Ruiz   Composer
Paul Francis Webster   Composer
Sonny Burke   Composer
Sylvia Dee   Composer
Bobby Scott   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Cootie Williams   Composer
Antonio Carlos Jobim   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Mack Gordon   Composer
Ian Grant   Composer
Newton Mendonca   Composer
Paula Flack   Product Manager
Greg Gardner   Liner Notes
Richard Marlow   Composer
Roger Ramirez   Composer
Jack Reardon   Composer
Alexandre Distel   Composer
Jerome Leshay   Composer
Ned Cronk   Composer
Paul Francis   Composer
Jim Morrison   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Bernie Hanighen   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Bob Hilliard   Composer
Billie Holiday   Composer
Arthur Herzog, Jr.   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Frank Eyton   Composer
Doc Pomus   Composer
Walter Donaldson   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
James V. Monaco   Composer
Erroll Garner   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
Bobby Troup   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Joseph McCarthy   Composer
Howard Dietz   Composer
Robby Krieger   Composer
Lionel Rand   Composer
Jule Styne   Composer
James Van Heusen   Composer
Neal Hefti   Composer
Ray Manzarek   Composer
Noel Coward   Composer
Thelonious Monk   Composer
Les Brown   Composer
George Cory   Composer
Dave Mann   Composer
Mort Shuman   Composer
Mort Garson   Composer
Arthur Kent   Composer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Bud Green   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Douglass Cross   Composer
Russell Garcia   Composer
John Densmore   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Robert Sour   Composer
Roger "Ram" Ramirez   Composer
Matty Malneck   Composer
James Sherman   Composer
Arthur Hamilton   Composer
Herman Hupfeld   Composer
Victor Young   Composer