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Latin in a Satin Mood
Released: 1963
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Released: 1963
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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...
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London By Night
Released: 1958
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Released: 1958
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The exquisite Julie London may be poised like a prohibition-era streetwalker on the album cover, but London By Night is a high-class, quality 1950s pop album. The standards and original tunes on...
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Lonely Girl
Released: 1956
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Released: 1956
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Liberty Records was pleasantly surprised when Julie London's debut album was such a big hit. Julie Is Her Name did contain the hit single "Cry Me a River," but each featured mellow jazz guitar and...
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Love Letters
Released: 1962
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Released: 1962
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Every Julie London album before Love Letters has something to recommend it for fans of vocal pop and jazz or lounge music, but this 1962 release is for London completists only. Love Letters isn't a...
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Make Love to Me
Released: 1957
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Released: 1957
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Julie London's concise and melodic versions of standards were quite popular during the latter half of the 1950s. Her subtle sensuality and lightly swinging style made for a potent combination. This...
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Our Fair Lady
Released: 1965
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Released: 1965
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Julie London spent most of the 1960s recording middle-of-the-road vocal pop albums of varying degrees of worth before returning to West Coast jazz with a vengeance on 1965's All Through the Night....
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Send for Me
Released: 1960
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Released: 1960
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One of the more unique Julie London recordings, Send For Me finds the ultra-lounge chanteuse mixing it up on 12 blues-based swingers. Far afield of the guitar and bass minimalism of the deservedly...
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Julie London Sings Cole Porter
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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In celebration of what would have been Cole Porter's 100th year, EMI collected all of Julie London's studio recordings of the master's work onto one compact disc. Ten of the 17 tracks come from...
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Sophisticated Lady
Released: 1962
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Released: 1962
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"Sophisticated" is the right word to describe Julie London's cool vocal approach; it can be shoved into the background, but if you listen closely there's a lot of turmoil going on under its...
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Swing Me an Old Song
Released: 1959
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Released: 1959
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Everyone seems to have forgotten that rock & roll wasn't doing so hot with white audiences at the tail end of the 1950s until the Beatles hit the scene and had everyone going electric again....
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