Title: Eddy Howard Collection 1939-55 Artist: Eddy Howard Label: Acrobat Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 824046321420 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2017-10-13 Number of Discs: 2
Eddy Howard, although not necessarily a household name these days, was a hugely popular and successful singer and bandleader during the 1940s and early '50s, racking up more than 40 Billboard pop chart hits from 1946 to 1955, having already had half-a-dozen hits as vocalist with Dick Jurgen's Orchestra during the war years. As a singer, he was a classic crooner, competing for chart honours with the likes of Dick Haymes, and he scored two landmark No. 1s with the ballads "To Each His Own" in 1946 and "It's No Sin" in 1951. They are naturally included in the great-value 52-track collection, which selects recordings from his Vocalion sessions with Dick Jurgens and his solo singles for the Majestic and Mercury labels through into the '50s, as well as some classy jazz titles for Columbia where he records with Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian, Benny Morton and Bud Freeman among others. It is packed full of hits, featuring just about every one of his chart entries, including with more than twenty Top 10 successes. It's a worthy tribute to an artist who has not received the recognition that his success during that era merited, and is a must for lovers of the style that characterised what many regard as the golden era of popular music.
Tracks: 1.1 My Last Goodbye - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.2 Rainbow Valley - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.3 It's a Hundred to One - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.4 Bluebirds in the Moonlight - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.5 Careless - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.6 In An Old Dutch Garden - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra 1.7 Star Dust 1.8 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 1.9 Exactly Like You 1.10 To Each His Own 1.11 (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons 1.12 My Best to You 1.13 The Rickety Rickshaw Man 1.14 The Girl That I Marry 1.15 Heartaches 1.16 My Adobe Hacienda 1.17 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder 1.18 Ragtime Cowboy Joe 1.19 An Apple Blossom Wedding 1.20 Blue Tail Fly 1.21 Kate (Have I Come Too Early, Too Late) 1.22 Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) 1.23 Just Because 1.24 Put 'Em in a Box, Tie 'Em with a Ribbon (And Throw 'Em in the Deep Blue Sea) 1.25 Dainty Brenda Lee 2.1 (I'd Love to Get You) on a Slow Boat to China 2.2 Candy Kisses 2.3 Room Full of Roses 2.4 Yes, Yes, in Your Eyes 2.5 Maybe It's Because 2.6 Tell Me Why 2.7 Half a Heart Is All You Left Me (When You Broke My Heart in Two) 2.8 Rag Mop 2.9 American Beauty Rose 2.10 To Think You've Chosen Me 2.11 The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) 2.12 A Penny a Kiss - a Penny a Hug 2.13 The Strange Little Girl 2.14 What Will I Tell My Heart 2.15 (A Woman Is a) Deadly Weapon 2.16 (It's No) Sin 2.17 Stolen Love 2.18 Wishin' 2.19 Be Anything (But Be Mine) 2.20 Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart 2.21 Old Fashioned Love 2.22 I Don't Want to Take a Chance 2.23 Mademoiselle 2.24 It's Worth Any Price You Pay 2.25 Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me) 2.26 Melancholy Me 2.27 The Teen-Ager's Waltz
