CD Details
- Released: March 8, 2005
- Label: Asv Living Era
Tracks:
- 1.Peg O' My Heart
- 2.Stars Fell on Alabama
- 3.I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way
- 4.She Shall Have Music
- 5.Take My Heart
- 6.May I Have the Next Romance with You?
- 7.A Sailboat in the Moonlight
- 8.South America, Take It Away
- 9.How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
- 10.Linda
- 11.When I Write My Song (Mon Cowur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)
- 12.I'll Dance at Your Wedding
- 13.Those Things Money Can't Buy
- 14.You Are Never Away
- 15.You're Too Dangerous, Cherie (La Vie en Rose)
- 16.Serenade (Music Played on a Heart String) (Dillo Tu Serenata)
- 17.Ballerina
- 18.Confess
- 19.Love Somebody
- 20.My Darling, My Darling
- 21.Powder Your Face with Sunshine
- 22.I Love You So Much It Hurts
- 23.Baby, It's Cold Outside
- 24.You're Breaking My Heart (Mattinata)
- 25.A Dreamer's Holiday
- 26.Now Is the Hour (Maerere Ra Maori Farewell Song)
Product Description:
Personnel: Buddy Clark (vocals); Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Anita Gordon (vocals); Fred Guy (guitar); Barney Bigard, Benny Goodman (clarinet); Johnny Hodges (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Otto Hardwick (alto saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); Cootie Williams (trumpet); Hayes Alvis (double bass); Sonny Greer (drums).
Audio Remasterer: John Hadden.
Recording information: Hollywood, CA (09/14/1934-09/06/1949); New York, NY (09/14/1934-09/06/1949).
Crooner Buddy Clark helped to establish the dependable and reassuring conventions of the early to middle 20th century pop vocal, distinguishing himself as a contemporary of Bing Crosby, Gene Austin, Rudy Vall?e, and Al Bowlly while preparing ground for the successes of Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone, Steve Lawrence, and Dean Martin. Released in 2005, Here's to Romance is Living Era's 26-track survey of the all-too-brief recording career of Buddy Clark. This outstanding portrait album, which covers a 15-year stretch, finds Clark working with orchestras led by Benny Goodman, Johnny Hodges, Mitchell Ayers, Freddy Martin, Lud Gluskin, Nat Brandywynne, Ray Noble, Xavier Cugat, Earle Hagen, Ted Dale, and Dick Jones. Clark is heard in duets with Doris Day and Dinah Shore, pop singers who seem to have been perfectly suited to his tone and delivery. Dinah Shore and the Charioteers are also heard on "Now Is the Hour," a choral pop arrangement of a Maori farewell song which was recorded only a month before Clark's death in the wreck of a twin engine Cessna airplane on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles on October 1, 1949. Once again, Living Era has come up with a superbly constructed tribute to a great if somewhat overlooked artist. Here's to Romance weighs in with the very best Buddy Clark collections ever made available to the public. ~ arwulf arwulf
