Description
DESCRIPTION
Guy Lombardo was a hugely successful bandleader, violinist 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. He was so extraordinarily successful over a period spanning more than a quarter of a century that his tally of hit records - over 200 - is so long that we have decided to spread the recordings over two 4-CD sets, of which this is Volume 1. This great-value 103-track CD comprises most of his recordings for the Victor and Decca labels during the second era of his hit-making career which 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, the Your Hit Parade chart, or, after 1940, any of the Billboard charts. It includes hits with Hildegarde, The Andrews Sisters and Gloria de Haven, and among his own featured vocalsist are Carmen Lombardo, Larry Owen, Fred Higman, Kenny Gardner, Billy Leach, Tony Craig, Stuart Foster, Jimmy Brown, Don Rodney, Bill Flanagan and Kenny Martin. It features 15 No. 1s, including "Stars Fell On Alabama", "What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You)", "Red Sails In The Sunset", "Lost", "September In The Rain", "A Sail Boat In The Moonlight", "So Rare", "Penny Serenade", "Managua-Nicaragua" and "The Third Man Theme". Along with the companion set "The Guy Lombardo Hits Collection Vol. 1 1927-37" (Acrobat ACQCD7139) it represents a comprehensive and enjoyable overview of his hit-making career.
Tracks
- Disc 1 -
1 The Love Bug Will Bite You (If You Don't Watch Out)
2 I Know Now
3 It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane
4 Toodle-Oo
5 A Sail Boat in the Moonlight
6 Gone with the Wind
7 Can I Forget You
8 The Folks Who Live on the Hill
9 So Rare
10 I See Your Face Before Me
11 When the Mighty Organ Played Oh Promise Me
12 Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
13 It's Easier Said Than Done
14 Let's Sail to Dreamland
15 Ti-Pi-Tin
16 Two Bouquets
17 In My Little Red Book
18 Little Lady Make Believe
19 So Little Time
20 I Must See Annie Tonight
21 It's a Lonely Trail (When You're Travelin' All Alone)
22 I Ups to Her and She Ups to Me (And the Next Thing I Knows I'm in Love)
23 Deep Purple
24 Penny Serenade
25 Liitle Sir Echo
- Disc 2 -
1 Easter Parade
2 St. Louis Blues
3 Cinderella Stay in My Arms
4 I'm Sorry for Myself
5 South American Way
6 In An 18th Century Drawing Room
7 South of the Border
8 Confucius Say
9 Intermezzo (Souvenir de Vienne)
10 The Band Played on
11 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland
12 For Me and My Gal
13 Speak Low (When You Speak, Love)
14 Take It Easy
15 It's Love Love Love
16 Long Ago and Far Away
17 Humoresque
18 Together
19 Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
20 The Trolley Song
21 Always
22 A Little on the Lonely Side
23 Oh! Moytle
24 Poor Little Rhode Island
25 Bell Bottom Trousers
26 Stars in Your Eyes
27 No Can Do
- Disc 3 -
1 Seems Like Old Times
2 Symphony
3 Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
4 Give Me the Moon Over Brooklyn
5 I'd Be Lost Without You
6 June Is Bustin' Out All Over
7 Money Is the Root of All Evil
8 The Gypsy
9 One-Zy Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)
10 Christmas Island
11 Managua-Nicaragua
12 Anniversary Song
13 April Showers
14 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder
15 All My Love
16 The Echo Said No
17 I'm My Own Grandpaw
18 Red Roses for a Blue Lady
19 Everywhere You Go
20 Down By the Station
21 Need You
22 Merry-Go-Round Waltz
23 The Four Winds and the Seven Seas
24 Hop-Scotch Polka
25 Homecoming Waltz
- Disc 4 -
1 The Blue Skirt Waltz
2 Merry Christmas Polka
3 Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
4 The Wedding Samba
5 The Third Man Theme
6 Dearie
7 Tiddly Winky Woo
8 Our Little Ranch House
9 Nola
10 The Petite Waltz
11 Harbor Lights
12 The Tennessee Waltz
13 Get Out Those Old Records
14 The Chicken Song (I Ain't Gonna Take It Settin' Down)
15 Velvet Lips
16 If
17 Frosty the Snowman
18 Because of You
19 Undecided
20 Crazy Heart
21 Blue Tango
22 Kiss of Fire
23 Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart
24 Half As Much
25 Wish You Were Here
26 Hernando's Hideaway
