Ethel Merman (3)

ETHEL MERMAN - 24 CLASSIC SONGS (1998)

She was Cole Porter's favorite female singer. I do not agree, but he was "THE MAN". Who am I to disagree? LOL

1. You're the Top
2. I Get a Kick Out of You
3. It's De-Lovely
4. You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
5. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
6. How Deep Is the Ocean?
7. Friendship
8. Red, Hot and Blue
9. Down in the Depths (On the 90th Floor)
10. I've Still Got My Health
11. My Mother Would Love You
12. Eadie Was a Lady, Pts. 1-2
13. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
14. You're a Builder Upper
15. This Is It
16. I'll Pay the Check
17. A Lady Needs a Change
18. I'm an Indian, Too
19. Moonshine Lullaby
20. An Earful of Music
21. Let's Be Buddies
22. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
23. Anything You Can Do
24. Ridin' Hig

Ethel Merman - The World Is Your Balloon · The Decca Singles 1950-1951 (2005)

 By David. Thank you.

01 - A Little Girl from Little Rock
02 - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
03 - Dearie (with Ray Bolger)
04 - I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Prayers) (with Ray Bolger)
05 - It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House (with Ray Bolger)
06 - (If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked a Cake (with Ray Bolger)
07 - Calico Sal
08 - She's Shimmyin' on the Beach Again
09 - Hawai'i
10 - Ukulele Lady
11 - The Lake Song (Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg) (with Ray Bolger)
12 - Don't Believe It (with Ray Bolger)
13 - Once Upon a Nickel (with Ray Bolger)
14 - Oldies (with Ray Bolger)
15 - Love Is the Reason
16 - The World Is Your Balloon
17 - Make the Man Love Me
18 - You Say the Nicest Things (with Jimmy Durante)
19 - A Husband/A Wife (with Jimmy Durante)
20 - If You Catch a Little Cold (I'll Sneeze for You) (with Jimmy Durante)
 
Decca Broadway (CD) B0005109
? 2005 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.

« This British compilation differs from other Ethel Merman retrospectives in that it focuses on a little-remembered aspect of the singer's recording career, her non-cast studio recordings of the early 1950s that appeared only on a series of singles. Like other Broadway stars, Merman didn't do much recording outside of cast albums, although she did cut some tracks for RCA Victor and Brunswick in the 1930s and early '40s before the era of the "Original Broadway Cast" album. Following the success of her show Annie Get Your Gun and its Decca Records cast album in 1946, however, Merman signed an exclusive term contract with Decca. The disadvantage of such a contract became apparent in 1950, when she starred in the musical Call Me Madam but was unable to appear on the cast album, which had been assigned to RCA, and had to record her own solo album of the show's songs instead, while Dinah Shore substituted on the RCA LP with the rest of the original cast. In addition to her Call Me Madam collection, Merman also recorded a bunch of singles that included her versions of songs from contemporary musicals such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Flahooley; covers of the current pop hits "I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Pray'rs)" and "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake," both performed as duets with fellow Broadway star Ray Bolger; and novelty tunes, some of them done with Bolger, others with Jimmy Durante. The material did not measure up to the Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Cole Porter songs she was accustomed to singing on-stage, but Merman threw herself into the sessions enthusiastically, and the performances showed off a light, playful side of her not always apparent on her cast albums. This collection, the first attempt to gather these rarely heard tracks together, should be welcomed by show music fans. »
 ~ William Ruhlmann

Ethel Merman - Ethel's Ridin' High (1974)

By my dear friend, David. Thanks, hon.

01 - Gee, But It's Good To Be Here
02 - Whispering
03 - Some People
04 - Sunrise, Sunset
05 - What Kind Of Fool Am I
06 - Ridin' High
07 - Someone To Watch Over Me (Stanley Black, Piano)
08 - The Impossible Dream
09 - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
10 - Nothing Can Stop Me Now!
 
Decca/Phase 4 Stereo (LP) PFS 4324
 
Stanley Black conducting The London Festival Orchestra & Chorus 
 
« Born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman on January 16, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. Known as Ethel Merman, she was a renowned singer and actress. Merman, who had never taken voice lessons, worked as a secretary before her first professional singing engagement in 1929. Ethel Merman was married four times; Ethel Merman openly lied about her age during her lifetime, and her birth year is listed in reference books as being anywhere between 1906 and 1912; most modern biographers believe that 1908 was the actual year of her birth.
For more than fifty years singer and actress Ethel Merman (1909-1984) was a beloved legend of stage and screen. Her last major public appearance was at a Carnegie Hall benefit performance in 1982. The next year Merman underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor that was discovered after she suddenly collapsed in her apartment. However, the tumor was not operable and she continued to decline. Sadly, the woman with a giant singing voice and vibrant stage presence became bedridden and had to struggle to speak even a few words. Merman died in New York City, where she had lived her entire life, on February 15, 1984. »