Artist: Keely Smith
Album: The Essential Capitol Collection
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- All the Things You Are (3:27)
- It's Been a Long, Long Time (2:06)
- That Old Black Magic (with Louis Prima) (2:57)
- Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) (3:12)
- You Go to My Head (2:38)
- S'posin' (2:42)
- Fools Rush In (2:58)
- The Song Is You (3:14)
- How Are Ya' Fixed for Love? (with Frank Sinatra) (2:28)
- The Birth of the Blues (2:51)
- I Wish You Love (2:36)
- Someone to Watch over Me (3:02)
- The Man I Love (3:18)
- Autumn Leaves (2:53)
- What Is This Thing Called Love? (1:54)
- On the Sunny Side of the Street (3:02)
- Nothing's Too Good for My Baby (with Louis Prima) (2:16)
- I Can't Get Started (3:29)
- There Will Never Be Another You (2:25)
- Imagination (3:32)
- The Whippoorwill (2:51)
- Nothing in Common (with Frank Sinatra) (2:33)
- When Your Lover Has Gone (3:14)
- All the Way (3:07)
- Stardust (2:55)
- Don't Take Your Love from Me (3:09)
- When Day Is Done (3:50)
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There's no way Keely Smith will ever be able to escape the long shadow of Louis Prima, whose fourth wife she was and who led the band where she found her greatest fame. Heard apart from Prima, she was a fantastic vocalist, the equal of more respected singers like Chris Connor or Helen Merrill, who were working a much different circuit than Smith during the late '50s and early '60s. The Essential Capitol Collection is an excellent way to survey Keely Smith's early career; it includes 27 songs, including much of her several LPs for the label, as well as her most popular duets with Prima and two with Frank Sinatra.
Review by John Bush