First Torch Singers 3 1935-1940 / Various First Torch Singers 3 1935-1940 / Various CD

The art of the torch song flowered and flourished in the '30s, thanks to legendary ladies like these: Things Might Have Been So Different Ruth Etting; If You Should Ever Leave Mildred Bailey; That Old Feeling Alice Faye; Careless Dinah Shore; Moments Like This Maxine Sullivan, plus Lee Wiley, Una Mae Carlisle, Helen Morgan, Connie Boswell, Frances Morgan and more. 20 tracks!

1. Things Might Have Been So Different - Ruth Etting 2. I Was Taken By Storm [Dizzy Dames] - Helen Morgan 3. You've Got Me Crying Again - Connee Boswell, Ray Sinatra ; His Orchestra 4. These Foolish Things - Greta Keller 5. Imagination - Bebe Daniels 6. Please Be Kind - Frances Langford, Harry Sosnik ; His Orchestra 7. If You Should Ever Leave - Mildred Bailey 8. I Can't Give You Anything But Love [Blackbirds of 1928] - Adelaide Hall 9. That Old Feeling - Alice Faye, Hal Kemp ; His Orchestra 10. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Ginny Simms 11. For Sentimental Reasons - Hildegarde, William Wirges Orchestra 12. Please Believe Me - Jane Froman 13. Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Dixie Lee Crosby, Victor Young ; His Orchestra 14. But Not for Me [From Girl Crazy] - Max Kaminsky's Orchesta, Lee Wiley 15. Moments Like This [College Swing] - Maxine Sullivan, Claude Thornhill ; His Orchestra 16. Where Are You [Top of the Town] - Cy Feuer Orchestra, Gertrude Niesen 17. Don't Mention Love to Me [In Person] - Kay Thompson 18. If I Had You - Una Mae Carlisle 19. All My Life [Laughing Irish Eyes] - Benny Goodman ; His Trio, Helen Ward 20. Careless - Dinah Shore