Artist: Chris Connor
Album: Her Complete Bethlehem Recordings
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Blue Silhouette (2:45)
- Miser's Serenade (Mad Miser Man) (2:46)
- Ask Me (2:46)
- Chiquita from Chi-Wah-Wah (2:48)
- Ev'rything I Love (2:18)
- Indian Summer (2:57)
- What Is There to Say? (2:53)
- I Hear Music (2:20)
- Come Back to Sorrento (2:46)
- Why Shouldn't I? (2:46)
- Try a Little Tenderness (3:04)
- Lullaby of Birdland (2:24)
- All About Ronnie (2:59)
- Spring Is Here (2:56)
- Out of This World (2:56)
- Lush Life (2:55)
- A Cottage for Sale (2:36)
- How Long Has This Been Going On? (2:33)
- CD 2:
- Goodbye (2:34)
- Stella by Starlight (2:27)
- Gone with the Wind (2:20)
- He's Coming Home (2:44)
- Blame It on My Youth (2:39)
- Ridin' High (4:15)
- It's All Right with Me (2:28)
- All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart (1:51)
- Trouble Is a Man (2:53)
- All This and Heaven Too (3:30)
- From This Moment On (2:30)
- The Thrill Is Gone (2:48)
- Someone to Watch over Me (3:12)
- I Concentrate on You (3:31)
- Don't Wait Up for Me (2:35)
- A Good Man Is a Seldom Thing (3:26)
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) (3:08)
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The emergence of Chris Connor as a singer began when Stan Kenton engaged her as his featured orchestra vocalist in 1953. With her uncanny vocal resemblance to June Christy, she immediately burst onto the national scene. Tall, blonde Chris was becoming one of the select corps of younger girl vocalists, and in the fall of that year she left the bandleader and began building a reputation as a single on the eastern club circuit, soon signing an exclusive contract with the then-new Bethlehem Records label.
Her good sense of dynamics and ability to feel ballad lines and lyrics as well as uptempo romps convincingly, made an immediately identifiable impact. And her taste, style and intelligent analysis of a lyric are to be found in this collection of songs. Chris handled her voice as a musician does his horn.