Original Album: Sony Music Special Products A-26057 (1995)
Description by OLDIES.com:
A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Pearl Bailey. All original recordings.
Tracks:
1.He Didn't Ask Me
2.Protect Me (From "Inside U.S.A.")
3.Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me)
4.It'S A Great Feeling (From "It'S A Great Feeling") (With Hot Lips Page)
5.Some Days There Just Ain't No Fish
6.Mamie Is Mimi (From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") (With Tony Pastor & His Orchestra)
7.He Didn't Have The Know How - No How
8.If My Friends Could See Me Now (From "Sweet Charity")
9.Big Spender (From "Sweet Charity")
10.Mame (From "Mame")
Product Description:
Now, here's an oddity. Pearl Bailey made a series of recordings for Columbia Records during the second half of the 1940s, then didn't record for the label again until 1966, when she cut only three songs -- "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "Big Spender" from the then-current Broadway musical Sweet Charity and the title song from another show of the day, Mame. This ten-song budget compilation resurrects seven cuts from the '40s sessions -- including little-known compositions by such noted songwriters as Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, and Johnny Mercer; played by orchestras led by Mitchell Ayres and Gil Evans; and featuring such duet partners as Hot Lips Page and Tony Pastor -- and combines them with those three '60s show tunes. It doesn't make a lot of sense as an album, of course, but at least Bailey is her usual entertaining, showboating self. ~ William Ruhlmann
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