Love Me Or Leave Me: From The Sound Track (1955 Film) [Soundtrack]

Editorial Reviews
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A big hit of the early LP era, the soundtrack of this biopic of Ruth Etting spent 17 weeks at the top of Billboard's chart. Despite the frequent intrusiveness of Percy Faith's orchestral accompaniment, Day performs convincingly on ballads such as the title song, "Ten Cents a Dance," and the single "I'll Never Stop Loving You." Some impossibly hokey up-tempo material ("Sam, the Old Accordion Man") doesn't help, however. --Rickey Wright

Tracks:

Overture
It All Depends On You
You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
Stay On The Right Side, Sister
Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)
Mean To Me
Sam, The Old Accordian Man
Shaking The Blues Away
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry/I Cried For You/My Blue Heaven/Ten Cents A Dance
I'll Never Stop Loving You
Never Look Back
At Sundown
Love Me Or Leave Me
Finale
I'll Never Stop Loving You
Ten Cents A Dance (Short Version)
Love Me Or Leave Me (Version 1)

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A big hit of the early LP era, the soundtrack of this biopic of Ruth Etting spent 17 weeks at the top of Billboard's chart. Despite the frequent intrusiveness of Percy Faith's orchestral accompaniment, Day performs convincingly on ballads such as the title song, "Ten Cents a Dance," and the single "I'll Never Stop Loving You." Some impossibly hokey up-tempo material ("Sam, the Old Accordion Man") doesn't help, however. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Love Me or Leave Me - Doris Day.......2007-02-04

Really wanted this CD in the worst way but unfortunately it wouldn't play on my Sony equipment so I had to return it.

A Shining Day.......2005-09-18

The music for this movie was designed, I think, to show Doris Day at her best. Other collections of her vocals, such as Complete Recordings with Les Brown, fail to showcase Ms. Day's remarkable range, and also fail to show her contrasting styles. In the movie, Ms. Day's character, Ruth Etting, is hardly happy and the mournful tunes Ms. Day sings do justice to Ruth's sad life. But, wonder of wonders, when Ms. Day sings "At Sundown," the kind of perky, peppy tune everyone associates with her, she delivers the song so effortlessly and beautifully that you wish Ruth had never lived an unhappy moment.

Doris Day sings Ruth Etting.......2004-10-23

What a perfect combination, we've got ol' Dodo singing Ruthie's biggest hits and most well known favorites. Day sounds relaxed on such numbers as Love Me or Leave Me, and Ten Cents A Dance, and she sounds fine'n'groovey on Shakin' The Blues Away and Sam The Accordian Man. This could be called "Doris Day Sings Ruth Etting", and it is a classic, and may be one of day's classiest efforts. If you think Day did nothing jazzworthy since leaving Les Brown, think again, and pick thsi cd up, and then go find the cd's where dodo sings with the Page Cavanaugh Trio, and get the Young Man With A Horn cd, where ol' dodo sings with the Harry James trio! Sizzlin' stuff, by an underrated pop and jazz singer(YES!!! I said JAZZ SINGER!!!, accept it!).

THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE !.......2004-07-29

What can you say about Doris Day that hasn't been said by millions of her fans for years. Doris Day is unequivocally the best gal pop singer of the twentieth as well as the early twenty first centuries. She is really without peer in all the most important entertainment categories: A singularly beautiful voice, perfect pitch, a delivery honed with the big bands for years and the ability to project her whole personality and emotion in each vocal performance. Secondly, a gorgeous face and body that was second to none and thirdly an acting ability that ranged from comedic to the most dramatic. No one that I can recall had that much going for them in all of show business. On top of all that Doris was and is a genuinely great person.

In LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME Doris exhibits her great natural acting skills working along side Hollywood legends like Jimmy Cagney, Cameron Mitchell and a host of veteran character actors. Musically, she transcends the popularity and vocal abilities of the film's subject, Ruth Etting. Her renditions of NEVER LOOK BACK, MEAN TO ME, LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, TEN CENTS A DANCE, YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU, and ILL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU, among others, are some of the best she has ever recorded. To hear the purity and richness of her voice, with only a piano accompaniment, in a day and age where the so called current pop stars sing off key, have little or no voice, no power and no sense of individual style and are electronically altered to make them saleable, is one of the true joys of a jaded audiophile. My favorite Doris Day single is her 1948 recording of IT'S MAGIC. That recording still ranks as one of the very best pop vocals of all time and the passage of those 56 years since its' #1 status has only enhanced its' artistry. I most enthusiastically recommend this album and the film and hope it gets into DVD form very soon. I will close with this comment: If I had a teen age daughter who had illustions of a vocal career I would see to it that she had as many of Doris' albums to study as I could provide her to hear what real singing was all about.

Doris in her element.......2004-03-05

Doris Day found the role of a lifetime in the legendary torch singer Ruth Etting. Etting's biographical life as told in LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME is, in my opinion, Doris Day's finest hour on screen. Likewise, the soundtrack album is a must-own for all true Doris Day fans.

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME recounts the early life and career of Ruth Etting, who was dominated by her lover and manager Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder (played by James Cagney in the movie). The film also featured fine work from Cameron Mitchell (CAROUSEL).

Percy Faith's recreation of the brassy orchestras of the 1920's and 30's is right on the money, and Day fits the period perfectly. Standout numbers include her all-out rendition of "Shakin' the Blues Away", as well as the delightful corn of "Sam the Old Accordian Man". Day also sings such Etting standards as "My Blue Heaven", "You Made Me Love You" and "Ten Cents a Dance". Day's rendition of the title song is indeed haunting, summing up the stormy and violent relationship between Ruth and Marty.

This reissue features all-new remastering in true stereo, as well as demo recordings and a previously-unreleased version of "Ten Cents a Dance".

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