Artist: Beverly Kenney
Album: Complete Decca Recordings
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2012
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Your Love Is My Love (3:08)
- The Magic Touch (2:26)
Sings for Playboys - It's Magic (2:29)
- A - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) (2:32)
- Time Was/It's So Peaceful (3:08)
- A Summer Romance (3:08)
- Try a Little Tenderness (3:14)
- What Is There to Say (3:56)
- A Lover Like You (3:29)
- It's a Most Unusual Day (1:49)
- You're My Boy (3:00)
- What's It Like in Paris (3:20)
- Sing a Rainbow (3:04)
- Brooklyn Love Song (2:59)
- Do It Again (2:37)
- A Woman's Intuition (3:33)
- Life Can Be Beautiful (2:59)
- Mama, Do I Gotta? (2:06)
...Born to Be Blue... - Again (2:19)
- Isn't It a Pity (2:35)
- Where Can I Go Without You (2:28)
- Beyond the Next Hill (2:55)
- You Couldn't Be Cuter (2:24)
- Born to Be Blue (3:34)
- I Walk a Little Faster (2:53)
- It's a Blue World (2:22)
- Somewhere Along the Way (3:06)
- CD 2:
- For All We Know (3:12)
- It Only Happens When I Dance with You (2:45)
- Vanity (3:01)
- Go Away, My Love! (2:35)
Like Yesterday - Undecided (2:14)
- A Sunday Kind of Love (2:34)
- Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (2:04)
- I Had the Craziest Dream (2:24)
- What a Difference a Day Made (2:20)
- Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe (2:22)
- Tampico (2:03)
- Sentimental Journey (2:09)
- Any Old Time (1:37)
- And the Angels Sing (1:46)
- More Than You Know (2:40)
- The Dipsy Doodle (1:48)
Bonus Tracks
The Sesac Sessions - Lonely and Blue (2:39)
- Yours Sincerely (2:38)
- Long, Lean, and Lanky (2:57)
- Too Bad (2:48)
- Too Late to Be Sorry (2:05)
- It's a Mean Old World (2:13)
- Tall, Dark and Handsome (2:17)
- Let's Try Again (2:01)
- The Stars, the Night, the Moon (2:34)
- That Pyramid Jazz (2:18)
- I Hate Rock and Roll (1:54)
- What Is There to Say (2:46)
Playboy's Penthouse TV Show - Interview (0:41)
- Everything Happens to Me (2:36)
- Interview continues (1:06)
- Mountain Greenery (1:59)
- Makin' Whoopee (1:59)
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (2:03)
...Born to Be Blue...
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Over fifty years after her death, singer Beverly Kenney (1932-1960) remains a cult figure for her fans around the world. Her career was tragically brief—she took her own life when she was 28. She possessed a sweet, child-like vocal quality and a nuanced, pleasant jazz-styled phrasing that won her favour with both pop and jazz audiences.
On these outstanding Decca sides, recorded few years before her death, she displays the smooth, smart and bittersweet touch that defined her personal style.
In addition to the fine small group performances with front-rank jazzmen and orchestral settings with Ralph Burns and Hal Mooney, this set also includes all the sides she recorded with the Eddie Safranski orchestra for the Sesac publishing and record label. All the critical hosannahs they earned her, however, never quite translated into widespread public acceptance, due, at least in part, to the burgeoning rock & roll movement, which she loathed, even composing a song called “I Hate Rock and Roll”, which she performed on the Steve Allen TV show on May 18, 1958—making the perfect addition to this collection.
The closer of the set is a highly valuable document, taped from a Playboy Penthouse TV show, where she is interviewed by Hugh Hefner and sings with her distinctive sophisticated phrasing and cool jazz sensibility.
Review by Jordi Pujol