About the Blues/London by Night [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
UK reissue combines two of the pop vocalist's albums on one CD, 'About the Blues' (1957) & 'London by Night' (1958), both of which are out of print domestically. 2001.

Tracks:

Basin Street Blues
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues
Get Set For The Blues
Invitation To The Blues
Bye Bye Blues
Meaning Of The Blues
About The Blues
Sunday Blues
The Blues Is All I Ever Had
Blues In The Night
Bouquet Of Blues
Well, Sir
That's For Me
Mad About The Boy
In The Middle Of A Kiss
Just The Way I Am
My Man's Gone Now
Something I Dreamed Last Night
Pousse Cafe
Nobody's Heart
The Exciting Life
That Old Feeling
Cloudy Morning

Album Description

UK reissue combines two of the pop vocalist's albums on one CD, 'About the Blues' (1957) & 'London by Night' (1958), both of which are out of print domestically. 2001.

Album Details

Two classic original albums compiled onto one CD. Digitally remastered.

Customer Reviews:

Julie Sings The Blues.......2007-07-09

A great album with a variety of blues tunes done as only Julie can. Very good!

Two masterpieces from the fifties.......2003-12-23

These albums are well up to the standard that Julie's fans expect, full of late-night romantic music. Critics will point to the lack of any up-tempo songs, but that was never Julie's style. There are other singers and groups who are good at that.

The first of the two albums presented here, About the blues, is a collection of ten blues standards and two originals - Meaning of the blues and Bouquet of blues - all performed superbly by Julie in her own particular style. Of the standards, perhaps the best known are Basin Street blues, I got a right to sing the blues, Invitation to the blues and Blues in the night, but there are many excellent songs here in this well-chosen set.

The second album, London by night, is a story about a girl who finds love, loses it then finds it again. The set opens with Well sir, when she meets her first partner, followed about three songs about her being in love including the most famous song here, Mad about the boy. Next comes My man's gone now - so the first love is over. Then she is on her own again (Something I dreamed last night, Pousse Café, Nobody's heart, The exciting life, That old feeling) before she finds love again in the final song, Cloudy morning. All the songs are brilliant - nothing contrived to fit the theme.

Here are two outstanding Julie London albums together on one CD, which all her fans should find irresistible.

julie places you there.......2002-05-08

Julie's about the blues album i think is her greatist. The cut "basin street blues" takes great advantage of the stereo process.Opening with her voice in the left channel and moving across to the right.The whole thing makes you feel like you are in new orleans.But my favortie is "a nightingale can sing the blues".The london by night album is a good addition to this fine cd.

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