Morgana King: Four Classic Albums
Four Classic Albums
2
CDs
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Avid
- Bestellnummer: 1530999
- Erscheinungstermin: 14.2.2011
The “Godmother” brings it home……….!!
AVID Jazz here presents four classic Morgana King albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
“For You, For Me, For Evermore”, “Sings The Blues”, “The Greatest Songs Ever Swung” and “”Let Me Love You”.
To quote from the liner notes for the “Let Me Love You” album recorded in July 1956, “good singers are at a premium these days…………….let’s say it out in front, Morgana King is a good singer…..always has been…endowing a song with a warm and very personalised feeling”. Born into a musical family in 1930 in Pleasantville N. Y., her father played guitar and sang, while her first husband was the talented jazz trumpeter Tony Fruscella who introduced Morgana to the music of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk among others. Her second husband was the jazz trombonist Willie Dennis who had played with Mingus and Mulligan and would collaborate with Morgana on many musical projects. Morgana herself studied at the Metropolitan School of Music. These four classic, hard to find albums, recorded between 1956 and 1959 all allude to the emergence of a bright new singing star that was Morgana King. With a four octave voice, Morgana was hard for critics to categorize, was she jazz or something else? It could explain why despite more than 30 albums to her name, recorded from the fifties to the nineties and rave remarks from such as Stevie Wonder who was quoted as saying “Morgana King has done the best version of “You Are The Sunshine of My Life” I have ever heard”, she never really found the full recognition she so richly deserved. She was even invited by Frank Sinatra to record three albums for his Reprise label in the mid sixties while the seventies saw her take on the role of wife to Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone in the classic The Godfather parts 1 & 2. These early albums show us what a great singing talent Morgana was and (indeed still is!) as she moves with consummate ease from jazz classics to blues to standards from the Great American Songbook.
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
AVID Jazz here presents four classic Morgana King albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
“For You, For Me, For Evermore”, “Sings The Blues”, “The Greatest Songs Ever Swung” and “”Let Me Love You”.
To quote from the liner notes for the “Let Me Love You” album recorded in July 1956, “good singers are at a premium these days…………….let’s say it out in front, Morgana King is a good singer…..always has been…endowing a song with a warm and very personalised feeling”. Born into a musical family in 1930 in Pleasantville N. Y., her father played guitar and sang, while her first husband was the talented jazz trumpeter Tony Fruscella who introduced Morgana to the music of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk among others. Her second husband was the jazz trombonist Willie Dennis who had played with Mingus and Mulligan and would collaborate with Morgana on many musical projects. Morgana herself studied at the Metropolitan School of Music. These four classic, hard to find albums, recorded between 1956 and 1959 all allude to the emergence of a bright new singing star that was Morgana King. With a four octave voice, Morgana was hard for critics to categorize, was she jazz or something else? It could explain why despite more than 30 albums to her name, recorded from the fifties to the nineties and rave remarks from such as Stevie Wonder who was quoted as saying “Morgana King has done the best version of “You Are The Sunshine of My Life” I have ever heard”, she never really found the full recognition she so richly deserved. She was even invited by Frank Sinatra to record three albums for his Reprise label in the mid sixties while the seventies saw her take on the role of wife to Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone in the classic The Godfather parts 1 & 2. These early albums show us what a great singing talent Morgana was and (indeed still is!) as she moves with consummate ease from jazz classics to blues to standards from the Great American Songbook.
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
- 1 For You, For Me, For Evermore
- 2 Here I'll stay
- 3 There's a lull in my life
- 4 Delovely
- 5 Down In The Depths
- 6 The song is you
- 7 In the wee small hours of the morning
- 8 Ev'rything I Love
- 9 If you could see me now
- 10 I'll string along with you
- 11 Everything I've got
- 12 You're not so easy to forget
- 13 More than you know
- 14 Frankie and Johnnie
- 15 Mean to me
- 16 When your lover has gone
- 17 Something to remember you by
- 18 I see two lovers
- 19 Body and soul
- 20 Mad about the boy
- 21 It's only a paper moon
- 22 Bill
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
- 1 Can't help lovin' dat man
- 2 Why was I born
- 3 Just you, just me
- 4 And the angels sing
- 5 Take the "A" train
- 6 I can't get started
- 7 Lullaby of Birdland
- 8 A foggy day
- 9 How high the moon
- 10 Perdido
- 11 Lonesome road
- 12 At sundown
- 13 All or nothing at all
- 14 Let me love you
- 15 I love you much too much
- 16 I'll never smile again
- 17 I'll remember April
- 18 You always hurt the one you love
- 19 The end of a love affair
- 20 Mad about him sad without him, how can I be glad without him blues
- 21 That ole devil called love
- 22 Undecided
- 23 You don't know what love is
- 24 I've found a new baby (Fast Version)
- 25 I've found a new baby (Slow Version)