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Frances Day
Golden Girl of the 1930s
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. It's De-Lovely
2. I Don't Know Why
3. Everything But You (with Max Kirby)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky You (and Broken-Hearted Me)
5. When My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese (with Al Bowlly)
6. Now You're Here
7. S'cuse Me
8. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?
9. Faint Harmony
10. My Kid's a Crooner (with Sybil Jason)
11. Pardon My English
12. Dancing with a Ghost
13. Let's Lay Our Heads Together (with Arthur Riscoe)
14. I'd Do the Most Extraordinary Things (with Arthur Riscoe)
15. Now I Understand
16. You Bring Out the Savage In Me
17. Show Me the Way to Romance
18. Swing
19. Me and My Dog
20. I'm a Fool for Loving You
21. A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
22. So Must Our Love Remain
23. I've Got You Under My Skin
24. Easy to Love (previously unissued)
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
1. You Have That Extra Something
2. A Little White Room (with John Mills)
3. I Will Pray
4. Midnight and Music
5. Whispers in the Dark
6. Music, Maestro, Please!
7. How Do You Do, Mr. Right?
8. Summertime
9. I L-L-Love You So
10. Much More Lovely
11. Do I Love You?
12. A Pair of Silver Wings
13. But in the Morning, No! (with Bud Flanagan)
14. It's De-Lovely / Underneath The Arches (with Bud Flanagan)
15. I Walked into a Dream Without Knocking
16. Daddy
17. Give Him the Oo-La-La
18. You've Got It, I Want It
19. An Englishman Spoke in Grosvenor Square
20. Caesar's Wife
21. The Wheels of Love
22. Heartbreak Hotel (as 'Gale Warning & The Weather Men')
23. Why Shouldn't We? (excerpt) (with Meier Tzelniker)
24. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
25. Hang on to Happiness with Leslie Henson

CD Details

All Artists: Frances Day
Title: Golden Girl of the 1930s
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Avid Records UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 3/11/2008
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5022810192626

Synopsis

Album Description

(2-CD set) Spotted in a New York Speakeasy, she was bought to London in 1924 by Australian impresario Beaumont Alexander who immediately divested her of her American accent, dyed her hair platinum blonde (before Jean Harlow!) and launched her into the world of exotic West End cabaret where she was known for performing in nothing but a g-string and feather boa...and this was 1925! The Thirties were Frances' decade and she appeared in countless shows and films, her greatest success being the stunning stage production of Jill Darling. She was a song stylist of supreme individuality as this wonderfully re-mastered double CD from Avid clearly shows.

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CD Reviews

SHE HAD THAT EXTRA SOMETHING

Barry McCanna | Normandy, France | 03/26/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Frances Day starred on stage and in films during the thirties and early forties, and this 2-CD set encapsulates her career. Accompaniments include those of Ray Noble, Louis Levy, Carroll Gibbons, George Scott Wood, Geraldo, Jay Wilbur, and Henry Hall, and she duets with Max Kirby, Al Bowlly, Arthur Riscoe, John Mills, and Bud Flanagan (with whom she performs a somewhat bowdlerised version of Cole Porter's "But In The Morning, No!"). Four of the tracks are recordings of radio broadcasts, including "Summertime" with Geraldo, and the parody "An Englishman Spoke In Grosvenor Square" with Henry Hall. In his comprehensive liner note, Michael Thornton refers to her habit of "bending the words, and often the music also, to her own fey persona". That succeeds in most cases, but what works on stage does not always transfer well to record. "S'cuse Me" in particular, sounds like a cross between Betty Boop and Shirley Temple! But the few less successful tracks are far outweighed by the many delights in this attractively packaged compilation."