Georgia Gibbs - Collection 1946-58 (CD)

Georgia Gibbs was a singer whose background was in jazz and big bands during the 1940s, but who was so astonishingly versatile that she was able to turn her hand to just about any kind of music with equal panache and credibility and as a result built an extraordinary hit career that brought her well over thirty hits during her career. She was very much part of the middle-of-the-road pop scene of the early '50s, making her debut with a No. 5 hit with "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd 've Baked You A Cake" in 1950 and had a No. 1 with the dramatic "Kiss Of Fire" the following year. She gained a certain degree of notoriety during the mid-'50s when she became one of the mainstream white pop artists to achieve chart success by recording cover versions of big hits from the R&B charts, scoring a No. 2 with a version of Lavern Baker's "Tweedle-Dee" and a No. 1 with a cover of Etta James' "The Wallflower" as "Dance With Me Henry". By the end of the '50s she had racked up an impressive 34 chart entries. This great-value 56-track 2-CD covers the era from her recording debut in 1946 through to the time when her music had largely been overtaken by the rock 'n' roll era and it's aftermath, and includes early recordings for the Majestic label, which illustrate her musical roots, plus subsequent releases on the Coral, Mercury, RCA and Roulette labels, and naturally features all her hits, plus selected A & B sides which amply illustrate her remarkable talent to perform across the pop spectrum with aplomb.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
2. Necessity
3. Ballin' the Jack
4. Fool That I Am
5. If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake
6. I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
7. Play a Simple Melody
8. A Razz a Ma Tazz
9. Cherry Stones
10. I Still Feel the Same About You
11. Tom's Tune
12. Good Morning Mr Echo
13. While You Danced, Danced, Danced
14. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
15. Cry
16. My Old Flame
17. Kiss of Fire
18. A Lasting Thing
19. So Madly in Love
20. Make Me Love You
21. My Favorite Song
22. Sinner or Saint
23. A Moth and a Flame
24. What Does It Mean to Be Lonely
25. Seven Lonely Days
26. For Me, for Me
27. Thunder and Lightning

Disc: 2

1. He's Funny That Way
2. Bridge of Sighs
3. A Home Lovin' Man
4. Under Paris Skies
5. Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell
6. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
7. My Sin
8. I'll Always Be Happy with You
9. Wait for Me, Darling
10. Mambo Baby
11. Love Me
12. Tweedle Dee
13. You're Wrong, All Wrong
14. Dance with Me, Henry
15. Ballin' the Jack
16. Blueberries
17. Sweet and Gentle
18. I Want You to Be My Baby
19. Goodbye to Rome
20. Twenty Four Hours a Day
21. Rock Right
22. Kiss Me Another
23. Happiness Street
24. Tra la la
25. Silent Lips
26. I'm Walking the Floor Over You
27. Fun Lovin' Baby
28. Great Balls of Fire
29. The Hula Hoop Song