Hal Kemp was one of the most consistently successful and prolific hitmakers

Hal Kemp was one of the most consistently successful and prolific hitmakers among the many popular bandleaders whose orchestras played the 'sweet' style of music which dominated the radio airwaves during the 1930s in the USA. Their repertoire not only encompassed dance band music, but vocal renditions of some of the hot new songs of the day emerging from Tin Pan Alley, along with compositions from the stage shows and movies which the Great American Songbook writers like Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart were creating. This excellent-value 46-track 2-CD collection completely comprises the biggest of his 58 career hits on the Brunswick and Victor labels before his untimely death in 1940 at the age of 38 in a road accident. It features the No. 1s 'There's A Small Hotel', 'When I'm With You', 'This Year's Kisses', 'Where or When', and his other Top 3 hits 'There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time', 'Shuffle Off To Buffalo', 'For All We Know', 'With All My Heart', 'A Star Fell Out Of Heaven', and 'The Touch Of Your Lips'. Featured vocalists include Skinny Ennis, Maxine Grey, Bob Allen, Saxie Dowell, Nan Wynn and Janet Blair. It's a substantial and evocative overview of the hit career of a highly successful orchestra leader, with early versions of some of the great songs of the era.

Cast & Crew

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Track Listing

• H'lo Baby
• If I Had A Girl Like You
• (There Ought To Be A) Moonlight Saving Time 
• Forty-Second Street
• Shuffle Off To Buffalo 
• You've Got Me Crying Again 
• I've Got To Sing A Torch Song 
• Love Is The Sweetest Thing
• Good Night, Lovely Little Lady
• Love In Bloom
• For All We Know
• Irresistible
• Hands Across The Table
• Lullaby Of Broadway 
• Once Upon A Midnight
• Thrilled
• Alone
• With All My Heart
• Where Am I (Am I In Heaven)
• Dinner For One, Please, James
• The Music Goes Round And Round
• Lost
• The Touch Of Your Lips 

• Gloomy Sunday
• There's A Small Hotel 
• I Don't Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love) 
• When I'm With You
• A Star Fell Out Of Heaven
• Me And The Moon
• I've Got You Under My Skin 
• Pennies From Heaven 
• With Plenty Of Money And You
• Goodnight, My Love
• This Year's Kisses
• What Will I Tell My Heart?
• Where Or When
• Whispers In The Dark
• Where In The World
• The Night Is Filled With Music 
• Don't Worry 'Bout Me 
• The Chestnut Tree ('Neath The Spreading Chestnut Tree)
• Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)
• Love For Sale
• What's New
• So You're The One 
• It All Comes Back To Me Now

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 142 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/06/20

UPC: 824046335724