FRAN WARREN - COME RAIN OR COME SHINE (1959)
1. Hey There
2. Imagination
3. I Can't Believe That You're In Love with Me
4. I Can't Get Started With You
5. Don't Blame Me
6. Exactly Like You
7. They Can't Take That Away from Me
8. Lucky New People In Love
9. I'm In The Mood For Love
10. You Don't Know What Love Is
11. Come Rain Or Come Shine
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Fran Warren (born March 4, 1926) is an American popular singer. She was born as Frances Wolfe to a Jewish family in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. After some time on a chorus line at New York's Roxy Theater, she auditioned with the big band of Duke Ellington at age 16; though she never made it onto Ellington's band, she soon became a singer with bandsled by Randy Brooks, Art Mooney, Billy Eckstine, Charlie Barnet, and Claude Thornhill. It was Eckstine who gave her the stage name of Fran Warren. With Charlie Barnet, she replaced Kay Starr as featured vocalist. In 1947, she made the charts for the first time, with the Thornhill band's recording of "A Sunday Kind Of Love" on Columbia Records. She made a number of other records with Thornhill that year.In 1948 she went solo, signing with RCA Records. On RCA she made a number of recordings, but her biggest hit was a duet with Tony Martin, "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" which reached #3 on the charts. Other recordings which she made include more duets with Tony Martin and with Lisa Kirk.In the early 1950s, after a number of her RCA records failed to chart, she moved to MGM Records. She had a number of records for MGM, making her last chart hit in 1953 with "It's Anybody's Heart." She recorded the LP "Hey There! Here's Fran Warren", with arrangements and conducting by Marty Paich (Tops/Pickwick, 1957). In the 1950s she also started to play in musical comedy, performing in "The Pajama Game" in the mid-1950s and later playing the title role in "Mame." She did not neglect her band singing, touring with Harry James in the 1960s. In1964, she received negative publicity and lost bookings when arrested for marijuana possession.She currently resides in Connecticut.
1. Hey There
2. Imagination
3. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
4. I Can't Get Started
5. I'm in the Mood for Love
6. Exactly Like You
7. They Can't Take That Away from Me
8. Don't Blame Me
9. Lucky New People in Love
10. You Don't Know What Love Is
11. Come Rain or Come Shine
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
A beautiful, hauntingly moody and romantic collection of some of Warren's strongest repertory of the period ("Hey There" is from The Pajama Game), but, strangely, not "A Sunday Kind of Love." Her warm yet misty voice is utterly beguiling in these expressive but unpretentious arrangements by Marty Paich, which show off her charm. From a gentle, ethereal presence, she suddenly comes up with these magnificent sustained phrases on songs like "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," that never quite let the listener go, and keep us wanting more. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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