Tina Louise

TINA LOUISE - IT'S TIME FOR TINA (1958)

 

1. Tonight Is The Night
2. Hands Across The Table
3. Snuggled On Your Shoulder
4. Embraceable You
5. I'm In The Mood For Love
6. Baby Won't You Say You Love Me
7. It's Been A Long Time
8. Hold Me
9. I Wanna Be Loved
10. Let's Do It
11. How Long Has This Been Going On?
12. Good Night My Love

Featuring: Tina Louise (vcl) with Buddy Weed and his Orch feat. Tyree Glenn (tb), Hilton Jefferson (as), Coleman Hawkins (ts)

Best known for her role as Ginger on the sitcom classic Gilligan's Island, actress/singer Tina Louise was born in New York City on February 11, 1934; after studying drama at Miami University, she went on to hone her craft at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors' Studio. During the mid-1950s, Louise also began forging a career as a nightclub singer, making her Broadway debut in 1956 in Li'l Abner; a year later, she recorded her first album, It's Time for Tina, which included a cameo by jazz legend Coleman Hawkins. Although she graduated to motion pictures with 1958's God's Little Acre, Louise remains perhaps most famous for her television work -- Gilligan's Island, on which she co-starred from 1964 to 1967, was among the most widely syndicated series in history, and during the late 1970s she also appeared on the hit soap Dallas