Morgan,Jane 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.

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