Freddy Martin was a hugely successful bandleader, saxophonist and conductor

Freddy Martin was a hugely successful bandleader, saxophonist and conductor whose orchestra played the 'sweet' style of dance band and easy listening music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the 1930s through the '40s and into the early '50s during what is sometimes called the golden age of popular music. The great jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Hodges called him 'Mr. Silvertone'. He pioneered the 'Tenor Band' style that became the norm in the dance band business, with an all-tenor sax section, and enjoyed successful lengthy residencies at prestigious hotels, as well as becoming a fixture on sponsored radio shows. He recorded for Brunswick, before moving to RCA, first coming out on their Bluebird before switching to Victor and RCA-Victor, and during the 1930s, '40s and early '50s enjoyed a constant stream of big sellers, which mostly featured one or other of his vocalists, but with his big hits coming with classically-based orchestral pieces, notably his long-running No. 1 with Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. This great-value 75-track 3-CD set consists entirely of his recordings which, before 1940, were credited with a Top 20 chart position in Joel Whitburn's 'Pop Memories' or Elston Brooks' 'The Weekly Top Ten Tunes For The Last Fifty Years' books, or the Your Hit Parade chart, or appeared in one of the Billboard charts thereafter. It naturally includes his other No. 1s 'I Saw Stars', 'Symphony', 'To Each His Own' and 'Managua, Nicaragua'. It's a substantial, enjoyable and nostalgic journey through an era when pop music was continually changing, but his distinctive style of music remained a constant.

Track Listing

• Bless Your Heart
• April in Paris
• When Tomorrow Comes
• Neighbors
• All I Do Is Dream of You
• Born to Be Kissed
• I Saw Stars
• Then I'll Be Tired of You
• Be Still, My Heart
• Must We Say Goodnight (So Soon)
• Isle of Capri
• Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
• Everything's Been Done Before
• (There's a) Little Picture Playhouse in My Heart
• Life is a Song
• Tell Me That You Love Me
• Reckless
• Get Rhythm in Your Feet
• Paris in the Spring
• I Couldn't Believe My Eyes
• A Little Bit Independent (But Easy On the Eyes)
• One Night in Monte Carlo
• The Broken Record
• Goody Goody
• It's Been So Long
• You

• Beside a Moonlit Stream
• Scatter-Brain
• One Cigarette for Two
• Intermezzo
• The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade)
• Til Reveille
• Piano Concerto in B Flat
• Why Don't We Do This More Often'
• Rose O'Day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha-Song)
• Tonight We Love
• Symphonie Moderne
• When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise
• Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland
• Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
• White Christmas
• I Met Her on Monday
• A Touch Of Texas
• I Get the Neck of the Chicken
• (Theme from The) Warsaw Concerto
• From Twilight 'Til Dawn
• Abraham
• Dream
• Everytime
• In the Middle of May

• Laura
• Lily Belle
• Symphony
• One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)
• Bumble Boogie
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• To Each His Own
• Managua, Nicaragua
• The Lady from 29 Palms
• Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed
• Come to the Mardi Gras
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• The Dickey-Bird Song
• Sabre Dance Boogie
• The New Look
• On a Slow Boat to China
• I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
• (Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music!
• Wilhelmina
• The Third Man Theme
• The Aba Daba Honeymoon
• Never Been Kissed
• Truly Truly Fair
• Down Yonder
• April in Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 210 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/13/19

UPC: 824046908928