Artist: Alice Babs
Album: What a Joy
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Prophone Records
Released: 2014
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Swing it, magistern (2:53)
- Jag har en liten Radiola (2:44)
- Stigbergsgatan 8 (3:07)
- Adress Rosenhill (3:16)
- Tva hjartan i swing (2:37)
- Regntunga skyar (3:23)
- En gang jag seglar i hamn (2:05)
- Pa sondag (2:10)
- How Do You Do, Mr Swing (2:33)
- Varat gang (3:19)
- Killen ar "Crazy" (2:50)
- Puck, Muck, Mack, Jack, Pim, Tim, Tom (3:31)
- Lille prins sol (3:26)
- Hey Diddle-Diddle (2:24)
- Jag undrar vem (2:22)
- Ha ha ha (3:07)
- Sjung och le (2:41)
- Ett glatt humor (2:28)
- Jitterbug fran Soder (2:43)
- Ga opp och prova dina vingar (2:37)
- CD 2:
- God Bless the Child (3:45)
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (4:35)
- What a Joy (3:25)
- Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit (2:34)
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (3:18)
- Yesterday (2:09)
- Close to You (3:56)
- Said the Willow Tree (2:48)
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore (3:58)
- In a Mellow Tone (4:28)
- Vocalise (4:02)
- Freedom I (3:25)
- There's Something About Me (5:01)
- Warm Valley (5:56)
- It Don't Mean a Thing (3:21)
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On this double disc covering the most of Alice Babs carrier her fantastic voice really shines.Disc 1 focus on songs in Swedish and disc 2 contains songs sung in English. Her big break came in 1940 with her film debut in Swing it, Magistern. One of many collaborators were Duke Ellingtons orchestra. The Duke had composed several works in a sacred style especially for Alice. Ellington stated that no one else has the ability to sing these parts, and the resulting success was exceptional. When the works were performed without Alice Babs, it took three different singers to cover the entire register. It came as no surprise when Babs was named singer to the royal court in 1972, the first singer who had not come from an operatic background. Her final retreat from the stage came in 1980.