Jane Morgan - Collection 1946-62 (CD)

Best-known for her US Top 10 hit with "Fascination" and her 1958 UK No. 1 with "The Day The Rains Came", Jane Morgan was a singer with a fascinating background. Born in 1924, she sang competitively from an early age and attended the famous Juilliard School of Music in New York, training to be an opera singer, and funding her studies by singing in night-clubs. She was invited to Paris in the mid-'40s by orchestra leader Bernard Hilda, and became a popular cabaret performer, singing in French, and appearing on television, and while in Europe she made records in Paris and London. Returning to the USA in the early '50s, she signed with the newly-established Kapp Records, for whom she recorded until the early 1960s. This 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her early singles recorded in Europe for the Columbia, Decca, Polydor and Parlophone labels, and then from her US singles on Kapp, with at least one side included of all her Kapp singles from these years. It features all her US and UK chart entries from these years, including her UK No. 1"The Day The Rains Came" and the US No. 7 "Fascination". She had voice with remarkable purity and clarity, with an effortless sense of phrasing that made her an extremely versatile artist, able to handle repertoire across the pop spectrum. This substantial cross-section of her primary career as a recording artist provides an enlightening and enjoyable showcase for her distinctive talent as a song stylist.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Hey! Ba-Ba Re Bop
2. Les Temps Qu'une Hirondelle
3. Cement Mixer (Put-Ti, Put-Ti)
4. C'est Tout
5. Les Feuilles Mortes
6. Comme on Est Bien Dans Tes Bras
7. Woody Woodpecker
8. April in Portugal
9. Say You're Mine Again
10. Eyes of Blue
11. Baseball, Baseball
12. Fair Weather Friends
13. Why (Are There Things We Can't Explain?)
14. Why Don't They Leave Us Alone
15. Flyin' High
16. Give Me Your Word
17. In Paree
18. Let's Go Steady
19. Midnight Blues
20. La Ronde
21. Two Different Worlds
22. From the First Hello to Our Last Goodbye
23. Come Home Come Home Come Home
24. It's Not for Me to Say
25. Around the World in Eighty Days
26. Fascination
27. I'm New at the Game of Romance
28. I've Got Bells in on My Heart
29. Enchanted Island
30. The Day the Rains Came
31. Le Jour Ou la Pluie Viendra (Sung in French)
32. I May Never Pass This Way Again
33. You'll Never Walk Alone
34. If Only I Could Live My Life Again
35. To Love and Be Loved
36. Love Is Like Champagne (Mon Manege a Moi)
37. With Open Arms
38. I Can't Begin to Tell You
39. I'm in Love
40. Happy Anniversary
41. C'est la Vie C'est L'amour
42. My Love Doesn't Love Me at All (Ballad of Lady Jane)
43. The Bells of St. Mary's
44. Romantica
45. Lord and Master
46. Somebody
47. The Angry Sea
48. In Jerusalem
49. Love Makes the World Go Round (Theme from 'Carnival')
50. It Takes Love
51. Moon River
52. What Now My Love
53. Forever My Love
54. Waiting for Charley to Come Home