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Julie London: Voice in the Mirror
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Site Updates in Past Six Months 6/19/07. FILMS: Added a photo of Julie with Lon McAllister and Allene Roberts from 1947's The Red House. Added a lobby card from 1948's Tap Roots. And a Belgian move poster for 1950's Return of the Frontiersman. Plus a lobby card and an insert for 1955's The Fighting Chance. And, finally, a lobby card for 1958's Man of the West.
5/27/07. MUSIC: I'm in the process of adding song lyrics for every album. It's slow-going, but as of today, have just added lyrics for all of the songs on Julie's first album, "Julie Is Her Name."
5/20/07. FILMS: Added 3 small lobby cards from 1957's The Great Man. And a publicity photo with Nat King Cole from 1959's Night of the Quarter Moon. And a big film still from 1958's Man of the West.
TV: Added a huge publicity photo from "Emergency!" Also added a pretty big photo with Robert Vaughn from "Helicopter Spies."
LINKS: Visit this "For the Love of Opera Gloves" site to see 34 screen shots of Julie wearing opera gloves in "The 3rd Voice." Also, from YouTube: See this video of Julie singing "Cry Me A River." And singing "February Brings the Rain."
MISC: Added a newspaper ad for Julie's April 1964 concert appearance at NYC's Americana.
PHOTOS: Added a candid from February 26, 1960.
5/07/07. NEWS: There's a new Julie 2-fer CD just released: The Good Life / The Wonderful World of Julie London! (Clicking on that link will take you to the Amazon site for more info and ordering.)
FILMS: Added a set of 8 lobby cards for Saddle the Wind and 8 for The Third Voice. Also added a still from Night of the Quarter Moon. And a movie poster for Crime Against Joe.
SINGLES: Added a 1968 ad for the "Yummy Yummy Yummy" single.
MISC: Added photos of three items personally owned by Julie, auctioned off this month by eBay: A necklace, a tweed coat, and a sweater-dress.
4/22/07. PHOTOS: Added one on-set film photo from The George Raft Story, and two photos from Night of the Quarter Moon.
MAGAZINES: Added a September 1957 cover from "TV Headline": "What Made Julie London TV's Most Sexiest Singer."
4/17/07. PHOTOS: Finished all the links for the Photos page, from the '40s through the '80s, plus shots of Julie's gravesite. Now, every thumbnail you click on from that page will take you to a larger picture.
4/10/07. Created 4 new TV photo pages: 1940s/50s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1970s (Emergency!).
Added 30 new TV photos total: One for the '57 Rosemary Clooney Show; one for '60's Laramie; one for '61's Follow the Sun; four for '61's Checkmate, one for '63's Dick Powell Theatre; three for the '64 Japanese special; two for '68's Showtime; one for '72's Adam-12; fourteen for Emergency!; two for '75's Match Game.
3/23/07. NEW GUESTBOOK! Sorry it's taken almost 6 months to add, but... at last, I've finally added a guestbook for this site. Please visit and leave your comments about Julie and/or this site. I look forward to reading what you have to say (and I'm sure other Julie fans do, too!)
3/22/07. FILMS: 1948 -- Tap Roots: Added a film-set shot with director George Marshall. 1957 -- The Great Man: Added a film still with director/co-star Jose Ferrer. 1959 -- The Wonderful Country: Added a film still with Robert Mitchum.
3/18/07. 1940s -- Added a new 1947 candid shot of Julie out with Red House co-star Rory Calhoun. (Also, when you now click on any 1940s thumbnail, the link takes you straight to that exact picture, rather than just the general page.)
1950s -- Added a new 1950s shot of Julie in ski-wear. Besides this photo, 4 other 1950s thumbnails are now linked to larger photos on this same page. (The rest of the 1950s large photos to be added shortly.)
1957 -- The Great Man: Added an insert. 1958 -- Saddle the Wind: Added a US poster. Question of Adultery: Added a film still. Man of the West: Added 2 film stills. 1959 -- Night of the Quarter Moon: Added a publicity still. 1968 -- Helicopter Spies: Added a film still.
MAGAZINES: Added a February 1963 cover from Chicago's TV Week.
3/09/07. PHOTOS: Added links to 9 of Julie's 1940s thumbnail photos. All of the thumbnails for Julie's 1940s photos are now linked to larger pictures.
3/08/07. PHOTOS: Until now I've just had the smaller thumbnails up on the PHOTOS page, without links to the larger pictures. Tonight I've started adding the larger shots, with 5 new big Universal publicity shots from 1945 to 1948.
3/04/07. FILMS: Added a lobby card for Crime Against Joe; a lobby card for The Great Man; and a Belgian movie poster for Saddle the Wind.
2/04/07. First, apologies for the lack of updates in over a month! Although, in my defense, I am in the process of moving from Austin, Texas, to Manhattan...but that's no excuse! Anyway, here's some new stuff, finally!
FILMS 1947 Films: Added 2 photos from The Red House. 1958 Films: Added a still from Man of the West.
Added a larger "Picture Show" cover (1958, "Man of the West"); a 2000 Julie-cover from UK's "In Tune"; and a 1960 Liberty Records ad.
Added 3 sheet music covers: 1955's "Cry Me a River," 1960's "Girl (Boy) From Ipanema," and 1964's "I Bruise Easily."
12/23/06. 1948 Films: Added 2 photos for "Tap Roots."
Music: Finished up the "Other Albums" section, adding cover photos and info for "Meet the Girls," "Bethlehem's Girlfriends," "Tenderly Yours," "Julie London," "Julie London Sings Soft and Sweet," and "Gone With the Wind."
Also, to the 1965 Liberty Albums page, added a cover photo and info for "By Myself," the album that Liberty released exclusively for the Columbia Record Club.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and thanks for your support of this site!
This site debuted on October 18, 2006. While there have been updates from the beginning, listed above are only site updates in the past six months. |
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General Not updated in the past few years, this site's still a nice one. (Watch out for extensive pop-ups, though.) A nice variety of information here, though the site doesn't have room for larger photos. New York Times Julie Listing Includes bio, filmography and reviews, more.
Music JD Hay's Crooners Hay's 2 Julie pages contain dozens of wav files of Julie songs you can listen to. Liberty Records History of Julie's label, with full discography. Songbirds "Wild, Cool, and Swinging" record review.
Television TV.com Info on Julie's TV shows. TV Now Monthly US TV schedule for Julie films.
Odds-n-Ends For the Love of Opera Gloves See 34 screen caps of Julie in "The Third Voice." The Smoking List Info on Julie smoking onscreen. "What the f*** key are we in?" Hear Julie curse like the proverbial sailor! YouTube Videos: Daddy Cry Me A River February Brings the Rain
And I've got to give a shout-out to... The Best of Everything: A Joan Crawford Encyclopedia. The first website I ever created! |
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When Julie London died on October 18, 2000, I hadn't even heard of her, embarrassing as that is to admit. When I was a kid in the '70s, I did watch "Emergency!", but I didn't particularly like the show. While I briefly put a picture of Randy Mantooth (garnered from Tiger Beat) on my wall, I certainly didn't pay attention to the "older folks" on the show, like Julie and her husband Bobby Troup. So I plodded along in the darkness until the Spring of 2001. At that point, a friend I'd made online told me both about Napster and about a song she thought I'd like, by someone named "Julie London." The song was "Sway," and, Napster being completely free at the time, I eagerly listened and downloaded and then listened and listened and listened... I hadn't heard anyone sing like that before, ever. Nearly six years and dozens of albums later, I still haven't. It's not just that Julie London sounds ultra-sexy. Lots of singers try to sound sexy, but Julie has that something extra---a natural warmth and sensuality combined with complete control over her style and intonation, whether she's doing a low-key, intimate album like "Julie At Home"; a raunchy album that demands some belting like "Send for Me"; or a coolly tongue-in-cheek role-playing album like her classic "Whatever Julie Wants." Whatever she attempted, from the "purest" and sparest of jazz vocals of her '50s albums to the intentionally slightly slurry groove of her mid-to-late-60s albums like "Feeling Good," "With Body and Soul," and "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," Julie successfully and skillfully captured the nuance of each note and of each song. While she early-on famously denigrated the limits of her own vocal range, she was, nonetheless, capable of expressing herself naturally in a wide variety of styles that most singers of her generation (or any generation) were not similarly capable of expressing. In the interest of full disclosure: My own very favorite Julie albums are "Julie At Home," "Send For Me," "Whatever Julie Wants," "Love Letters," "Latin in a Satin Mood," "In Person at the Americana," "Feeling Good," "With Body and Soul," and "Yummy Yummy Yummy"; I'm not a big fan of her to my mind "dull-ish" first albums and later sluggish albums like "Love on the Rocks" and "Sophisticated Lady." (Nor do I think she sings the blues particularly well on her lauded "About the Blues" album.) But don't let my own meager opinions hinder you: If you've got your own takes on her albums, there's room on every album page for your own reviews! For budding Julie fans wondering where to start, I'd personally recommend getting "Whatever Julie Wants" first (it's not out on CD under its own name yet, but all tracks but one are available on the 1988 EMI CD called "The Best of Julie London: The Liberty Years"); next I'd suggest the 1996 EMI two-fer "Julie...At Home"/"Around Midnight"; and then the 2004 EMI two-fer "Love Letters"/"Feeling Good"; and then "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy." (Old-schoolers, go ahead, yell at me for not including "Julie Is Her Name" / "Julie Is Her Name Vol. 2"!) :) While
I was busy listening to (or trying to find) Julie's 30 albums, I also discovered
another aspect of her career sometimes overlooked in the glare of her album
and "Emergency!" spotlight: Her 24 films made between 1944 and 1968,
with co-stars such as Buster Crabbe, Susan Hayward, Edward G. Robinson, Rock
Hudson, Gary Cooper, Jose Ferrer, Jeff Chandler, I hope as you browse this site that you'll be inspired to learn more about Julie London by seeking out her albums and films. I also hope you'll send in your own reviews of Julie albums, films, and TV shows to post here, as well as anything else (photos, interviews, etc.) you'd like to contribute that will make this site an interesting and informative place for all Julie London fans, old and new, to continue to visit.
October 18, 2006 |
Robert Taylor, and Robert Mitchum.
Though I've currently only seen 5 or so of these films (I'm working on the rest!),
I remain in the meantime amazed by the breadth of her (seemingly underrated
and unappreciated) show business endeavors and accomplishments.