Betty Grable - Pin-Up Girl

Artist:

Grable, Betty

UPC:

604988010329

Description:

Personnel: Carmen Miranda (vocals).
Editor: Geoff Milne .
Unknown Contributor Roles: June Haver; Dick Haymes; William Gaxton; Hilo Hattie; John Payne ; Alice Faye.
This 48-track, two-hour-and-seven-minute double-CD set presents soundtrack recordings from 19 films featuring Betty Grable that were released between 1930 (when she was 13) and 1945. Grable didn`t really become a major star until her appearance in Down Argentine Way in 1940, and that film and its successors over the next five years take up 42 of the performances here. Grable was an adequate singer (that she did not have a parallel career as a recording artist has more to do with studio discouragement than talent), and her film vehicles contained songs by such Hollywood professionals as the teams of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, and Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, though she also gets the chance to sing the works of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, and Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, among others, here and there. She also sang a few established standards, such as "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and "Carolina In the Morning," though she introduced very few, notably "The More I See You," with Dick Haymes, and "I Can`t Begin to Tell You," the only song she recorded for a hit, with her husband Harry James (not the version heard here). This album is thorough, well-programmed, and well-annotated. The only complaints about it can be the limited sound quality on the early tracks and the cut-off: Grable made movies for another ten years after The Dolly Sisters, the last music heard on this album. (Particularly missed are the Gershwin songs from 1947`s The Shocking Miss Pilgrim.) ~ William Ruhlmann

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Cowboy Number
2. Snake Dance
3. Let`s K-Nock K-Nees
4. Music in My Heart
5. Boys Will Be Boys
6. What Goes on Here in My Heart?
7. Down Argentine Way
8. Two Dreams Met
9. Hawaii-A
10. Sheik of Araby, The
11. You Started Something
12. Loveliness and Love
13. Kindergarten Conger
14. Hi Ya Love
15. Another Little Dream Wouldn`t Do Us Any Harm
16. Are You Kidding?
17. I`m Still Crazy for You
18. I Heard the Birdies Sing
19. Sing Me a Song of the Islands
20. Down on Ami Ami Oni Oni Isle
21. O`Brien Has Gone Hawaiian
22. Run Little Raindrop Run
23. Pan American Jubilee
24. Cuddle Up a Little Closer
25. Pretty Baby
26. Miss Lulu from Louisville

DISC 2:

1. Take It from There
2. Beautiful Coney Island
3. There`s Danger in a Dance
4. Waiting at the Church
5. My Heart Tells Me
6. Sweet Rosie O`Grady
7. Going to the Country Fair
8. You`re My Little Pin-Up Girl
9. Don`t Carry Tales Out of School
10. Once Too Often
11. Song of the Very Merry Widow
12. Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe
13. In Acapulco
14. Medley: Play Me an Old-Fashioned Melody/A Nickel`s Worth of ...
15. I Wish I Knew
16. Cooking Up a Show/The More I See You
17. Vamp, The
18. We Have Been Around/Carolina in the Morning
19. Powder, Lipstick and Rough
20. I`m Always Chasing Rainbows
21. Darktown Strutters` Ball, The
22. I Can`t Begin to Tell You

Album Information

Release Date:

04/01/1997

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Film Composers

Label:

Jasmine Records

Producer:

Geoff Milne

Catalog Number:

JASCD 103/4

Original Release Year:

1997

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mono

Runtime:

126 : 45

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