First Crooners 2 1930-1934 / Various First Crooners 2 1930-1934 / Various CD

It has been written that the crooners and their writers dealt with adult love expressed in baby talk with a steady sprinkle of tears. But their song settings, at least in this collection, are very often out-of-doors, in a beautiful garden of love. We are among flowers and birds, under the moon and the stars, and we are building up, every so politely, to that big goodnight as dawn is breaking. The crooners are, for the most part, light-voiced and sing quite high. Their diction is generally excellent, a far cry from the jazz and blues singers of the 1920s.

1. Blue Kentucky Moon - Gene Austin 2. You Brought a New Kiind of Love to Me - Smith Ballew 3. Love Is the Sweetest Thing - Al Bowlly, New Mayfair Orchestra, Ray Noble 4. Cocktails for Two - Carl Brisson 5. Out in the Cold Again - Chick Bullock 6. Evening - Gus Arnheim, Buddy Clark, Orchestra 7. Goodnight, Sweetheart - Russ Columbo 8. Learn to Croon - Sam Coslow 9. Boo Boo Boo - Bing Crosby 10. Singing a Song to the Stars - Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards 11. Don't Tell Her What Happened to Me - Sammy Fain 12. Confessin' That I Love You - Art Gillham 13. Hold Me - Little Jack Little 14. Hello! Beautiful! - Walter Donaldson, Nick Lucas 15. You're My Everything - Jack Miller 16. Try a Little Tenderness - Charlie Palloy 17. Happiness Ahead - Dick Powell 18. I Love to See the Evenin' Sun Go Down - Conrad Thibault 19. Without That Certain Thing - Rudy Vall 20. [Untitled Track]