Connie Haines - Connie Haines Collection 1939-54 (CD)

Connie Haines was one of female vocalists who established their reputations as singers with the prominent big swing bands of the early 1940s before going on to forge a solo career in the post-war era as the viability of the big bands declined and television offered new opportunities for a new generation of photogenic solo performers. Working first with the orchestras of Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey, in the latter case alongside Frank Sinatra, she had notable success during the war years before recording with Gordon Jenkins for the fledgling Capitol label, and recording for Mercury, Signature and primarily for Coral in the post-war era. This 50-track 2-CD set comprises recordings from all those relationships, the selection of performances with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, with one or two featuring Sinatra, The Pied Pipers and Jo Stafford, including four Top 20 hits with "Two Dreams Met", "You Might Have Belonged To Another", "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" and "What Is This Thing Called Love?". The selected A & B sides of her solo singles also feature her solo hits on Coral from 1949 "How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies!" and "Maybe It's Because". She was a talented song stylist, equally at home singing with big bands, or performing the mainstream pop that characterised the post-war decade, and this will appeal to lovers of what is often called "golden age of popular music".

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Comes Love
2. Buds Won't Bud
3. You Think Of Everything
4. Two Dreams Met
5. Isn't That Just Like Love ?
6. Swing Time Up In Harlem
7. You Might Have Belonged To Another
8. You're Dangerous
9. Will You Still Be Mine ?
10. Let's Get Away From It All (Pt. 2)
11. Kiss The Boys Goodbye
12. What Is This Thing Called Love?
13. Snootie Little Cutie
14. He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings
15. At Last
16. She's Funny That Way
17. Do You Love Me?
18. Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
19. But What Are These
20. You Made Me Love You
21. Silly-No, Silly-Yes
22. What Has Happened To Joe?
23. The Darktown Strutters' Ball
24. Stormy Weather

Disc: 2

1. How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies!
2. You Told A Lie
3. Maybe It's Because
4. Hang On The Bell, Nellie
5. Wouldn't It Be Fun
6. Me, Myself And I
7. Old Man Mose
8. How Come You Do Me Like You Do
9. All I Do Is Wantcha
10. Let's Choo Choo Choo To Idaho
11. Of All Things
12. No Other Love
13. Along The Navajo Trail
14. Swingin' Doors
15. A Bushel And A Peck
16. The Man I Love
17. Lover Man
18. Dear! Dear! Dear!
19. Destination Moon
20. Too Many Hearts
21. Lemme Go
22. Love Lies
23. Mississippi Mud
24. Pink Shampoo
25. Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord Pt. 1
26. I Can't Get Enough!