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MACRAE,GORDON - COLLECTION 1945-62 CD

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MACRAE,GORDON - COLLECTION 1945-62 CD

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Gordon MacRae was an actor on stage and screen as well as a radio and TV star who was also a recording artist, having hits from the late 1940s through to the end of the '50s, both as a solo artist and in duets with Jo Stafford. He is best known for his starring roles in two movie versions of Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals, "Oklahoma!" in 1955 and "Carousel" the following year. This great-value 107-track 4-CD set provides a comprehensive overview of his recording career from his early days with the Musicraft label and through his many years with Capitol through to the early '60s by which time his exploits as a chart artist were over. It features his eight solo hits and his ten hit duets with Jo Stafford, including the 1948 No. 1 "My Darling, My Darling", and the Top 5 hits "'A' You're Adorable" and "Whispering Hope". Other artists featured in duets with him are Gisele Mackenzie and June Hutton, and the recordings include performances with some of the top arranger/conductors of the era - Walter Gross, Carlyle Hall, Paul Weston, Les Baxter, Frank de Vol, Carmen Dragon, Alex Stordahl and Van Alexander. Comprising selected A and B sides of his single releases plus tracks from his albums of this era, the collection has been compiled and annotated by former national newspaper showbiz writer Geoff Wilding.


TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 It's Anybody's Spring
2 Love Is the Sweetest Thing
3 Full Moon, Empty Arms
4 You Go to My Head
5 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6 Stars Fell on Alabama
7 You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
8 Flattery Will Get You Nowhere
9 Talking Is a Woman
10 Oh, But I Do
11 Body and Soul
12 A Fellow Needs a Girl
13 I Still Get Jealous
14 I Surrender Dear
15 At the Candlelight Café
16 That Feathery Feeling
17 Do You Ever Think of Me
18 Steppin' Out with My Baby
19 Hankerin'
20 At Your Command
21 It's Magic
22 You Were Meant for Me
23 Thoughtless
24 I Went Down to Virginia
25 Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue
26 Rambling Rose
- Disc 2 -
1 Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart
2 Bluebird of Happiness
3 My Darling, My Darling
4 The Pussy Cat Song
5 You're Still the Belle of the Ball
6 So in Love
7 I'll String Along with You
8 Need You
9 The Alphabet Song ('A' You're Adorable)
10 Younger Than Springtime
11 Lover's Gold
12 Whispering Hope
13 Wonderful One
14 The Prairie Is Still
15 Mule Train
16 Dear Hearts and Gentle People
17 Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
18 Echoes
19 Half a Heart Is All You Left Me
20 Poison Ivy
21 Dearie
22 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
23 This Is Heaven to Me
24 River of Smoke
25 Stars and Stripes Forever
26 Pigskin Polka
27 Just the Way You Are
- Disc 3 -
1 You Dyed Your Hair Chartreuse
2 Honky Tonk Ten Cent Dance
3 I'm Yours to Command
4 I'll Buy You a Star
5 On Rosary Hill
6 A Lover's Waltz
7 There's a Lull in My Life
8 Call Her Your Sweetheart
9 Brotherly Love
10 Blame It on My Youth
11 Congratulations to Someone
12 How Do You Speak to An Angel
13 I Don't Want to Walk Without You
14 C'est Magnifique
15 I Still Dream of You
16 Stranger in Paradise
17 Never in a Million Years
18 Open Your Arms
19 Face to Face
20 Coney Island Boat
21 Cara Mia
22 Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
23 Love Can Change the Stars
24 Here's What I'm Here for
25 You Forgot
26 Never Before and Never Again
- Disc 4 -
1 Bella Notte
2 Follow Your Heart
3 One Misty Morning
4 A Woman in Love
5 Here's to a Wonderful Christmas
6 Fate
7 Who We Are
8 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
9 Obey
10 Without Love
11 Endless Love
12 San Antonio Rose
13 The Last Roundup
14 When You Kiss Me
15 Syonara
16 If I Forget You
17 Now
18 The Secret
19 A Man Once Said
20 Fly Little Bluebird
21 Little Do You Know
22 Impossible
23 Sail Away
24 Ordinary People
25 Nobody Told Me
26 The Sweetest Sounds
27 People Will Say We're in Love
28 The Surrey with the Fringe on Top