Track Listing

1. Cry Me A River
2. I Should Care
3. I m In The Mood For Love
4. I m Glad There Is You
5. Can t Help Lovin That Man
6. I Love You
7. Say It Isn t So
8. It Never Entered My Mind
9. Easy Street
10. S Wonderful
11. No Moon At All
12. Laura
13. Gone With The Wind
14. Lonely Girl
15. Fools Rush In
16. Moments Like This
17. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
18. It's The Talk Of The Town
19. What'll I Do
20. When Your Lover Has Gone
21. Don't Take Your Love From Me
22. Where Or When
23. All Alone
24. Mean To Me
25. How Deep Is The Ocean
26. Remember

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26604 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Born Gayle Peck in 1926, Julie London was a hugely successful film actress having a starring breakthrough in 1947 in The Red House. Eight years later she was encouraged to pursue something of a singing career in tandem and debuted as a live performer at the 881 Club in Los Angeles. Her performance excited many of the audience, including executives of Liberty Records, who offered her a contract. Julie herself was unsure whether she was doing the right thing, claiming of her voice 'It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.' It helped that her first outing, Cry Me A River was a smash, making the Top Ten in the US and later a hit in the UK. That paved the way for a follow up album, and Julie would eventually record some 32 albums during her career. Her debut, Julie Is Her Name, made #2 in the US during 1956, containing as it did her big smash hit single, and her follow up Lonely Girl peaked at #16.

Customer Reviews

AWFUL QUALITY
Two excellent albums, but the sound quality (especially of Julie's voice) is awful!!! Stay away from this mess!

VERY poor quality Mastering - Avoid.
1 star I hear you say? (Set aside that these are brilliant albums). Someone has butchered this CD by being over zealous with the processing; it is dull, bass heavy, and the artifacts that are left in Julie's voice make it sound like it's from a low-grade MP3. The price tag shouldn't suck you in, spend a little more and get the properly mastered versions of these albums.

I thought it couldn't be that bad.
Readers should regard me as an object lesson. I ignored the other reviews because I could get it for only £1-73 and I thought, "How bad could it really be?" Well, the answer to that is 'really, really bad'. The sound has a horrid, 'booming' quality, that is too unpleasant for me to listen to for any length of time.
Serves me right for being miserly, I suppose.
And, by the way, I'm not some hi-fi buff attuned to the most subtle nuances; just your common or garden listener.