La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 for Sale

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La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 For Sale

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La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 :
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The NewOrleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956

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Featuring:La Vergne Smith (vcl, p,celeste), Wallace Davenport (tp), Wendell Albert Eugene (tb), Red Tyler (bar),Howard Mandolph (vb), Ernst McLean (g), Philip Darios (b), Earl Palmer (d)REFERENCE: FSRCD 799_2

La Vergne Smith was a singer and pianist whose warm,engaging way with torch songs and bluesy tunes was a popular part of thenight-life French Quarter of her native New Orleans in the late ‘40s and ‘50s.Her vocal style was intimate and sensitive, and her self-accompaniment on pianosimplest, yet she still projected a sophisticated approach that delighted theclientele of the smarter, candlelight saloons that began appearing there in 1947.In this case, the boîte was the Old Absinthe House, located at the corner ofBienville and Bourbon streets in New Orleans, and known for the worm-woodderivative for which the place was named—absinthe. It was in that musty greenambience, where she started singing in early 1954, that her Cook and Savoyalbums included here were recorded. And it was there, during the third year ofher engagement, that her artistry was captured on the Vik label for the finalalbum of this set, on which she sings with so much feeling, warmth andconviction, enhanced by some fine, sympathetic New Orleans 101. One Scotch, One Bourbon,
One Beer (Toombs) 1:36
02. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 2:22
03. Hurry on Down to My House (Lutcher) 1:25
04. Blues in the Night (Arlen-Mercer) 2:36
05. Straighten Up and Fly Right
(Cole-Mills) 1:18
06. One for the Road (Mercer-Arlen) 3:33
07. I Like That Kind of Carryin’ On
(Pichon-Smith) 1:53
08. Moonlight in Vermont
(Suessedorf-Blackburn) 3:22
09. That Old Black Magic (Arlen-Mercer) 2:00
10. Hey There (Adler-Ross) 3:22
11. You’d Better Go Man (Smith) 2:34
12. The Nearness of You
(Carmichael-Washington) 3:21
13. A Hundred Years from Today
(Young-Washington) 2:27
14. There is No Greater Love
(Jones-Symes) 3:01
15. Am I Blue? (Askt-Clarke) 2:36
16. I’ve Got a Right to Cry (Liggins) 2:43
17. Fool That I Am (Carter-Saenz) 2:48
18. Mobile (Smith) 2:42
19. Somehow (Maser) 2:53
CD 201. Basin Street Blues
(Armstrong-Williams) 2:17
02. Imagination (Van Heusen-Burke) 2:37
03. Careless
(Jurgens-Howard-Quadling) 2:59
04. It’s Over (Smith) 3:19
05. Blue Skies (Berlin) 1:52
06. I Surrender Dear
(Barris-Clifford-Crosby) 2:10
07. Out of Nowhere (Green-Heyman) 1:32
08. This Love of Mine (Sinatra-Sanicola) 1:49
09. St. Louis Blues (Handy) 2:52
10. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 2:30
11. Blue Prelude (Bishop-Gordon Jenkins) 2:50
12. Too Marvelous for Words
(Mercer-Whiting) 2:11
13. I Almost Lost My Mind (Hunter) 3:06
14. (How Can You Stay Away) So Long
(Miller-Howfle-Burke) 2:59
15. Stormy Weather (Arlen-Koehler) 2:00
16. Glory of Love (Hill) 2:49Sources:CD 1 - Tracks #1-11, from the album
\"Angel in the Absinthe House\" (Cook LP 1081)CD 1 - Tracks #12-19 & CD 2, tracks #1-4 from
\"The New Orleans Nightingale\" (Savoy MG-1203CD 2 - Tracks #5-16, from the album
\"La Vergne Smith\" (Vik LX-1056)Personnel on \"Angel in the AbsintheHouse\":La Vergne Smith, vocals & piano.Recorded in New Orleans, late 1954
Personnel on \"The New OrleansNightingale\":La Vergne Smith, vocals, piano & celeste (on CD-1 #14, CD-2 #4), unknownguitar, bass and drums.Recorded in New Orleans, May 24 (CD1), September 15 (CD2), 1955
Personnel on \"La VergneSmith\":La Vergne Smith (vcl), accompanied by Wallace Davenport (tp), Wendell AlbertEugene (tb), Alvin \'Red\' Tyler (bs), Howard Mandolph (vib), Ernst McLean (g),Philip Darios (b), Earl Palmer (d).Recorded in New Orleans, June 11, 1956
Original recordings supervised by Emory Cook, Fred Mendelsohn, and Herman Diaz,Jr.Original cover design by John Witt (Cook), \'Fats\' Pichon (Savoy)Compiled for CD release by Jordi Pujol
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La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 For Sale

La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 : $24.98

La Vergne Smith: The New Orleans Nightingale - Complete Recordings 1954-1956 :
$24.98