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Lee Wiley
Songbooks & Quiet Sensuality: 1933-1951
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. You've Got Me Crying Again
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. My One and Only
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. How Long Has This Been Going On
6. I've Got Five Dollars
7. You Took Advantage of Me
8. Glad to Be Unhappy
9. Let's Do It
10. Easy to Love
11. Sugar
12. Down with Love
13. Let's Fall in Love
14. Woman Alone with the Blues
15. A Woman's Intuition
16. Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere
17. Street of Dreams
18. Manhattan
19. I've Got a Crush on You
20. Tea for Two
21. More Than You Know

CD Details

All Artists: Lee Wiley
Title: Songbooks & Quiet Sensuality: 1933-1951
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Jazz Legends
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 9/13/2005
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Cabaret, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 723721180454

Synopsis

Album Description

A subtle improviser who was beloved by jazz musicians, Lee Wiley sang with a smoldering restraint that always suggested there was a hot fire just beneath the surface. Her appealing voice held a quiet sensuality and indescribable charisma, and she was groundbreaking in her decision to record entire albums dedicated to a single composer. Unwilling to compromise and record inferior pop tunes, overshadowed by singers who fronted swing bands, and later by the rise of rock & roll, Wiley faded into obscurity in the 1960s. This valuable collection returns her to glory, featuring 21 of Wiley?s loveliest cuts, collected on a single CD for the very first time, with remastered sound, detailed notes by Scott Yanow and rare historic photos.

CD Reviews

We gotta have some more of that.....

Dagfinn S. Skoglund | Oslo, Norway | 07/26/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard Lee Wiley on a compilation, just this one song, a live recording of "A Woman alone with the Blues", and the presenter of the track is heard uttering the headline of this review just after the rendition. I think I know what he meant, because there is this quality about her voice that strikes you, or should I rather say, insinuates itself with you, and you soon know that you gotta have more. So eventually I got this one, and it's got all of her best stuff. Lee Wiley must have been one of the first of the female jazz singers since she was active from the eraly thirties, yet her voice has a very contemporary sound to it, she sounds relevant and not just historically or stylistically interesting. She sings it like she means it and I love it. I've got plenty albums with many of the great ladies of jazz, and I love them all, but I also love Lee Wiley the best."