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Julie London Albums

1963 (page 1)

Love on the Rocks        Latin in a Satin Mood       Julie's Golden Greats


 

Love on the Rocks  (Liberty: LRP-3249/LST-7249)

Released: 1963

Producer: "Snuff" Garrett. Arranger: Pete King

 

Liner Notes:

Here is "Love on the Rocks," an album in which Julie London ably expresses--in a dozen great songs that set the mood perfectly--the emotions of a woman whose love has been spurned. She adds to the already expressive lyrics the magic ingredient of her provocative style--the style that is Julie's distinctive trademark.

 

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Tracks

 

Love on the Rocks

F. Forest - B. Hughes

 

Guess Who I Saw Today

M. Grand - E. Boyd

 

Where Are You

J. McHugh - H. Adamson

 

How Did He Look

A. Silver - G. Shelley

 

What's New

B. Haggart - J. Burke

 

A Cottage For Sale

L. Conley - W. Robison

 

The End of a Love Affair

Edward C. Redding

 

I'll Be Seeing You

I. Kahal - S. Fain

 

Where Did the Gentleman Go

Bobby Troup

 

Don't Worry 'Bout Me

T. Koehler - R. Bloom

 

The Man That Got Away

H. Arlen - I. Gershwin

 

Willow Weep for Me

Ann Ronell

 

 

 


 

 

Latin in a Satin Mood  (Liberty: LRP-3278/LST-7278)

Released: 1963

Arranger: Ernie Freeman

 

All Music Guide review by Nick Dedina:

Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album -- London sounds casual and confident throughout -- but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against? Latin in a Satin Mood ends up sounding exactly like what it was intended to be -- an aid to put a little vanilla Latin sparkle in suburban American bedrooms. If you want your London in the Latin style, then try her excellent Getz/Gilberto-style tribute to Cole Porter, All Through the Night. Julie London's affinity for West Coast jazz and her melancholy emotional pull were much better suited to bossa nova than to Caribbean Latin music.

 

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Tracks

 

Frenesi

A. Dominguez

2:24

Be Mine Tonight

Skylar - Lara

2:33

Yours

Gamse - Sherr - Roig

2:46

Besame Mucho

Velasquez - Skylar

2:07

Adios

Woods - Madriguera

2:31

Sway

Gimberl - Ruiz

2:33

Perfidia

Leeds - Dominquez

2:28

Come Closer to Me

Stewart - Farres

1:53

Amor

Skylar - Ruiz - Mendez

2:42

Magic is the Moonlight

Pasquale - Grever

2:21

You Belong to My Heart

Gilbert - Lara

2:48

Vaya Con Dios

Russell - Pepper - James

2:38

 


 

 

  

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Julie's Golden Greats  (Liberty: LRP-3291/LST-7291)

Released: 1963

 

Tracks

(Original album is in parentheses after song title)

 

Cry Me a River

(Julie Is Her Name)

Arthur Hamilton

2:36

Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado)

(End of the World)

Hendricks - Cavanaugh - Jobim - Mendonca

 

Come On-A My House

(Love Letters)

R. Bagdasarian - W. Saroyan

 

I Love You Porgy

(Love Letters)

Heyward - G. Gershwin - I. Gershwin

 

Midnight Sun

(Julie)

J. Mercer - L. Hampton - S. Burke

 

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

(Around Midnight)

B. Hilliard - D. Mann

2:49

Hot Toddy

(Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2)

R. Flanagan - H. Hendler

1:45

Daddy

(Julie)

Bobby Troup

2:25

Black Coffee

(Around Midnight)

P.F. Webster - S. Burke

2:59

Must Be Catchin'

(1959 single)

R. Stanley

 

Blue Moon

(Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2)

Rodgers - Hart

2:20

Love Letters

(Love Letters)

E. Heyman - V. Young

 

 

 


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