Sullivan,Maxine Collection 1937-49 CD

Maxine Sullivan was a stylish and versatile jazz and big band singer who was active in music for over half a century into the 1980s but whose most important recordings were during the first decade or so of her career from the late '30s through the 1940s. She came to the fore as vocalist with Claude Thornhill's innovative orchestra, and had a surprise hit with a version of the traditional song "Loch Lomond" which established a professional style and profile which enabled her to work as a solo artist, accompanied not only by Thornhill but by some of the other important names of that era, including John Kirby, Frankie Newton, Charlie Shavers, Bobby Hackett, Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and Ellis Larkins. This excellent-value 75-track 3-CD set comprises a significant proportion of her recordings from these years as she recorded for the Vocalion, Brunswick, Victor, Bluebird, Decca, Davis, Musicraft, DeLuxe, International and Apollo labels, encompassing performances across the jazz spectrum from big band to sessions in an intimate trio environment, as well as sophisticated renditions of pop songs that place her alongside some of the finest song interpreters of that era. It naturally includes her chart hits "Loch Lomond", "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "My Ideal". The collection offers a substantial and fairly comprehensive overview of her work during her key formative years, and is also a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for a distinctive and sometimes underestimated talent.

1. Stop, You're Breaking My Heart 2. Gone with the Wind 3. Loch Lomond 4. I'm Coming, Virginia 5. Annie Laurie 6. Blue Skies 7. Don't Save Your Love (For a Rainy Day) 8. Easy to Love 9. Nice Work If You Can Get It 10. The Folks Who Live on the Hill 11. Darling Nellie Gray 12. It's Wonderful 13. You Went to My Head 14. Dark Eyes 15. A Brown Bird Singing 16. Moments Like This 17. Please Be Kind 18. It Was a Lover and His Lass 19. Spring Is Here 20. Down the Old Ox Road 21. St. Louis Blues 22. L' Amour, Toujours L'amour 23. Night and Day 24. It Ain't Necessarily So 25. Kinda Lonesome 26. Say It with a Kiss 27. I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 28. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes 29. I'm Happy About the Whole Thing 30. Corn Pickin' 31. Jackie Boy 32. Sing Something Simple 33. Turtle Dove 34. Ill Wind 35. The Hour of Parting 36. If I Had a Ribbon Bow 37. Who Is Sylvia ' 38. Molly Malone 39. Barbara Allen 40. That Lonely Tune 41. There I Go 42. The Same Old Story 43. Calm As the Night 44. The Heart You Stole from Me 45. Last Night the Nightingale Woke Me 46. You Mean So Much to Me 47. Midnight 48. What a Diff'rence a Day Made 49. Just Like a Gypsy 50. My Blue Heaven 51. Kentucky Babe 52. Ma Curly Headed Baby 53. When Your Lover Has Gone 54. My Ideal 55. Beside the River Clyde 56. How Do I Know It's Real' 57. Behavin' Myself for You 58. I Carry the Torch for You 59. The Story of Our Love Affair 60. Confession Is Good for the Soul 61. This Heart of Mine 62. Every Time We Say Goodbye 63. I'm the Caring Kind 64. Looking for a Boy 65. Mad About the Boy 66. I Must Have That Man 67. I Can't Get Started 68. Skylark 69. Come Rain or Come Shine 70. Miss Otis Regrets 71. Takin' My Time 72. Summertime 73. Legalize My Name 74. Cry, Buttercup, Cry 75. Restless