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JULIE LONDON - THE BEST OF JULIE

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That's what JamCam said in his e-mail:

I am sharing a couple rare Julie London items.
EMI Japan released all of Julie's albums on CD this year. For those people who bought all 30 CD's you could send for 2 bonus discs that contained rare non-album singles. These are those 2 CD's. Hope everyone enjoys.
 
Cheers,
Brian

CD1:

1. Baby, baby, all the time
2. Shadow woman
3. Now, baby, now
4. Tall boy
5. Dark
6. Saddle the wind
7. I'd like you for Christmas
8. Tell me you're home
9. The freshman
10. Voice in the mirror
11. It's easy
12. Man of the West
13. I'll cry tomorrow


CD2

1. My strange affair
2. Must be catchin'
3. Time for lovers
4. Ever chance I get
5. Sanctuary
6. My darling, my darling
7. My love, my love
8. The boy from Ipanema
9. My lover is a stranger
10. We proved them
11. You're free to go
12. Too much of a man
13. Sittin' pretty

 

JULIE LONDON - MAKE LOVE TO ME (1959)

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A1.If I Could Be With You
A2.It’s Good To Want You Bad
A3.Go Slow
A4.A Room With A View
A5.Nearness Of You
A6.Alone Together
B1.I Wanna Be Loved
B2.Snuggled On Your Shoulder
B3.You’re My Thrill
B4.Lover Man
B5.Body And Soul
B6.Make Love To Me

Make Love to Me was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3060 as a monophonic recording in 1957, and later in stereo under catalog number LST-7060 in 1959.

The album was reissued, combined with the 1956 Julie London album Lonely Girl, in compact disc form on January 28, 2003 by EMI.

JULIE LONDON - THE INCOMPARABLE MISS JULIE LONDON: WITH BODY & SOUL (1967)

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The Comeback
Come On By
C.C. Rider
Romance in the Dark
I Got a Sweetie
You're No Good
Alexander's Ragtime Band
If You Want This Love
Looking Back
Treat Me Good
Straight Shooter

Plenty of body, and even more soul – a great little groove on the record at points, in that slinky, vampy sort of mode that Julie London picked up in the 60s! The album's got Julie taking on a fair bit of R&B and bluesy numbers – still singing in her more jazz-based style, but getting a nice groove on most numbers from Kirk Stuart – balancing out some piano-led grooves with more brassy backings, all very much in the style of Peggy Lee over at Capitol in the early 60s – yet completely different too, given London's vocal approach.

JULIE LONDON - WHATEVER JULIE LONDON (1961)

1.Why Don't You Do Right             
2.My Heart Belongs to Daddy
3.Hard Hearted Hannah     
4.Do It Again            
5.Take Back Your Mink        
6.Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
7.Daddy     
8.Occasional Man            
9.Love For Sale
10.Always True To You In My Fashion
11.There'll Be Some Changes Made            
12.Tired

Julie London was equally famous for her cool vocal style and her rather cold beauty. She normally specialized in torch songs, singing bleak songs of lost love, but on Whatever Julie Wants, London plays the part of a vampish sexpot who treats love as a commodity to trade with wealthy men. Sure, it's a sexist album that's more famous for its cheesecake sleeve photo of London naked under fur, diamonds, money, and a strategically placed champagne bottle, but it is a fun album and one that can be enjoyed for its individual songs or its narrative thrust. While most concept albums featuring popular standards don't really follow a strict story line, Whatever Julie Wants does. It begins with the protagonist uttering an innocent lover's plea before mistreatment turns her into a jaded gold digger ("Daddy" and a host of other tracks), then a prostitute ("Love for Sale"), and a step up to kept woman ("Always True to You in My Fashion"). Just as things are looking bad, London finally realizes that you can live without a man and his money with "There'll Be Some Changes Made," because the onetime temptress is just too darn "Tired." This may not be Julie London's finest musical hour, but the album is undeniably entertaining and it offers a Technicolor sex comedy break from her usual world of shadowy film noir. ~ Nick Dedina

JULIE LONDON - SEND FOR ME (1961)

1. Evenin'
2. What's Your Story, Morning Glory?
3. Get On The Right Track
4. I Must Have That Man
5. T'ain't What You Do (it's The Way That Cha Do It)
6. Baby Come Home
7. Every Day I Have The Blues
8. Yes Indeed
9. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
10. Cheatin' On Me
11. Trav'lin Light
12. Send For Me

JULIE LONDON - LATIN IN A SATIN MOOD (1963)

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1.Frenesi           
2.Be Mine Tonight (Noche de Ronda)           
3.Yours (Quierme Mucho)           
4.Besame Mucho   
5.Adios           
6.Sway (Quien Sera)     
7.Perfidia           
8.Come Closer To Me (Acercate Mas)           
9.Amor See All 2           
10.Magic Is The Moonlight (Te Quiero Dijiste)           
11.You Belong to My Heart (Solamente una Vez)           
12.Vaya Con Dio

Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album -- London sounds casual and confident throughout -- but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against? Latin in a Satin Mood ends up sounding exactly like what it was intended to be -- an aid to put a little vanilla Latin sparkle in suburban American bedrooms. If you want your London in the Latin style, then try her excellent Getz/Gilberto-style tribute to Cole Porter, All Through the Night. Julie London's affinity for West Coast jazz and her melancholy emotional pull were much better suited to bossa nova than to Caribbean Latin music. ~ Nick Dedina

JULIE LONDON & GERALD WILSON - FEELING GOOD (1965)

01. My Kind Of Town
02. Girl Talk
03. King Of The Road
04. I Bruise Easily
05. Feeling Good
06. Watermelon Man
07. She's Just A Quiet Girl
08. Summertime
09. Hello Dolly
10. Won't Someone Please Belong To Me

Feeling Good was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3416 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7416 in stereo in 1965.