Laine,Cleo You'Ll Answer To Me: A Selected Anthology CD

Dame Cleo Laine, DBE, is arguably Britain's most all-time versatile singer. Although acknowledged as the U. K. 's finest Jazz export, Cleo is comfortable in almost any musical genre and is the only female vocalist to have received Grammy nominations in the Jazz, Popular and Classical music categories. Famous for her scat singing and extraordinary vocal range, although she is a natural contralto, Cleo can produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of four octaves. This compilation traces the first twelve years of her career, beginning with her earliest sides as an uncredited ensemble vocalist in The Johnny Dankworth Seven, in 1951, through to her emergence as a major solo star at the turn of the 60s, when she registered an unlikely mainstream Pop hit, 'You'll Answer To Me'. Laine has been hugely prolific and this compilation is drawn from fourteen singles, five EPs and six LPs. The first comprehensive compilation of this body of her work, a number of these sides are notoriously hard to find elsewhere on CD

1. Mr ; Mississippi (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 2. Lush Life (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 3. (ItÆs No) Sin (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 4. The Very Thought Of You (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 5. Honeysuckle Rose (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 6. Easy Living (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) 7. I Know YouÆre Mine (With Johnny Dankworth ; His Orch) 8. AinÆt MisbehavinÆ (With Johnny Dankworth ; His Orch) 9. Spread A Little Happiness (With The Keith Christie Quintet) 10. YouÆve Done Something To My Heart (With The Keith Christie Quintet) 11. Mad About The Boy (With The Keith Christie Quintet) 12. A Love Like Ours (With The Keith Christie Quintet) 13. IÆm Beginning To See The Light 14. IÆm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket 15. April Age (With The Dave Lee Quintet) 16. April In Paris (With The Dave Lee Quintet) 17. The Lady Sings The Blues 18. Stormy Weather 19. Love Is Here To Stay 20. TÆainÆt What You Do (ItÆs The Way That Cha Do It) 21. Hit The Road To Dreamland 22. SomethingÆs Gotta Give (With The David Lindup Orch) 23. Unforgettable (With The David Lindup Orch) 24. All Of You (With The David Lindup Orch) 25. Teach Me Tonight (With The David Lindup Orch) 26. Young?At Heart (With The David Lindup Orch 27. Hand Me Down Love 28. They Were Right 29. Indian Summer 30. Sugar 31. O Mistress Mine 32. Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind 33. LetÆs Slip Away 34. Thieving Boy 35. Ole Devil Moon (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) 36. Just A-SittinÆ And A-RockinÆ (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) 37. Mean To Me (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) 38. IÆm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) 39. The Necessary Love 40. YouÆll Answer To Me 41. I Only Have Eyes For You 42. Mister One And Only 43. No Such Thing As Love 44. Waiting For Johnny To Come Home 45. I Think Of You 46. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 47. I DonÆt Know Why 48. All About Me 49. IÆve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 50. I Got It Bad And That AinÆt Good 51. IÆm A Dreamer, ArenÆt We All 52. I DonÆt Want To Set The World On Fire 53. IÆll Be Around 54. You Gotta Have Love