Lee Wiley was a jazz and big band singer whose career began in the sophisticated orchestral era of the early '30s

Lee Wiley was a jazz and big band singer whose career began in the sophisticated orchestral era of the early '30s and encompassed swing and small band work through the '30s and early '40s before hooking up with Eddie Condon's band in mid-decade, and going on to make some highly regarded albums. She was at once both distinctive and versatile, her smoky contralto voice enabling her to range across moody small group blues and after-hours material, swinging up-tempo big band arrangements, and lush easy listening recordings alike. This great-value 70-track 3-CD collection selects chronologically from recordings made in the core quarter-century or so of her career, beginning with work with the orchestras of Leo Reisman, Victor Young and Paul Whiteman in the early '30s. It includes titles from her highly-successful series of songwriter-based sessions for Liberty Music Shop and Schirmer with Max Kaminsky, Joe Bushkin, Eddie Condon, and Paul Weston at the turn of the decade, as well as 'live' radio recordings with Condon's groups through the '40s, also selecting tracks from her excellent albums 'Night In Manhattan', 'West Of The Moon' and 'A Touch Of The Blues' albums during the 1950s. She was a hugely talented performer who deserves much greater recognition than she has been generally accorded, and we hope this anthology will provide a showcase which will bring her to a much wider audience.

Track Listing

• Take It From Me I'm Talking To You
• Time On My Hands
• Got The South In My Soul
• I'll Leave These Reminders For You
• A Hundred Years From Today
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• I'm Coming, Virginia
• A Thousand Goodnights
• Careless Love
• Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
• Hands Across The Table
• I'll Follow My Secret Heart
• Too Good To Be True
• You Came To My Rescue
• Three Little Words
• You Turned The Tables On Me
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• Summertime
• Sam And Delilah
• 'S Wonderful
• I've Got A Crush On You
• Someone To Watch Over Me
• How Long Has This Been Going On '

• But Not For Me
• Baby's Awake Now
• I've Got Five Dollars
• You Took Advantage Of Me
• Glad To Be Unhappy
• Let's Fly Away
• Hot House Rose
• Find Me A Primitive Man
• Easy To Love
• You Do Something To Me
• Looking At You
• Why Shouldn't I '
• Down With Love
• Stormy Weather
• Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
• I've Got The World On A String
• Fun To Be Fooled
• Moanin' In The Mornin'
• Sugar
• Don't Blame Me
• Wherever There's Love
• The Man I Love
• When Your Lover Has Gone

• It's Only A Paper Moon
• Body And Soul
• A Woman Alone With The Blues
• Memories Of You
• A Woman's Intuition
• Ghost Of A Chance
• Oh, Look At Me Now
• Street Of Dreams
• Manhattan
• Fools Fall In Love
• I Got Lost In His Arms
• How Deep Is The Ocean '
• Why Oh Why '
• Baby, Won't You Please Come Home '
• My Funny Valentine
• Stars Fell On Alabama
• East Of The Sun
• As Time Goes By
• Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now
• Memphis Blues
• Blues In My Heart
• From The Land Of The Sky Blue Water
• My Melancholy Baby

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 210 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/09/16

UPC: 824046905927