This Is June Christy!/June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days [Import]

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Album Description
UK reissue combines two of the jazz vocalist's albums on one CD, 'This Is June Christy!' (1956) & 'June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days' (1959), both of which are out of print domestically. 2001.

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This Is June Christy!/June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • June Explores Her Early Years
  • Two splendid albums
 This Is June Christy!/June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days
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Manufacturer: EMI Gold Imports
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NKB6
Release Date: 2001-10-15

Tracks:

  1. My Heart Belongs To Only You
  2. Whee Baby
  3. You Took Advantage Of Me
  4. Get Happy
  5. Look Out Up There
  6. Great Scot
  7. Kicks
  8. Why Do You Have To Go Home
  9. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
  10. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
  11. I'll Remember April 12
  12. I Never Look Into Those Eyes Again
  13. Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
  14. A Hundred Years From Today
  15. The Lonesome Road
  16. She's Funny That Way
  17. It's A Pity To Say Goodnight
  18. Willow Weep For Me
  19. Easy Street
  20. Across The Alley From Alamo
  21. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  22. How High The Moon

Album Description

UK reissue combines two of the jazz vocalist's albums on one CD, 'This Is June Christy!' (1956) & 'June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days' (1959), both of which are out of print domestically. 2001.

Album Details

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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars June Explores Her Early Years.......2003-06-26

If you are reading this you probably already know who June Christy was and that she was one of the great female vocalists of her (and our) era. Particularly interesting to me in this double album reissue is the Remembering Kenton cuts. I recently acquired several Stan Kenton collections, featuring vocals by June (and also Anita O'Day). Many of these same songs are updated in the mid fifties, some ten to fifteen years after their initial recordings with Kenton. Pete Rugolo wrote the arrangements for these songs and wrote the original charts for the Kenton band. It is very interesting to see how focused the reissue arrangements have become. Songs like "Easy street" and "Across the Alley from the Alamo" are taken up several levels, yet sound very much like their original versions. But most outstanding to listen to are June's interpretations. She grew as an artist in those ten years. These cuts are wonderful and among the best work she did in the twenty odd years she sang professionally. June left us some years ago, but I will always cherish this music. Surely one of the first truly 'modern' women in popular music.

5 out of 5 stars Two splendid albums.......2002-01-12

"This Is June Christy" kicks off with her great single "My Heart Belongs to Only You" then wanders through a nifty group of other great singles. In June's day the great jazz singers all had parallel careers on their labels as pop single artists. That was the music scene then--much less regimented than now. "Those Kenton Days" refashions June's Kenton hits into fresh arrangements inspired by the originals (sometime Pete Rugolo rewriting his own work) and recorded in great stereo. Through this double collection June is at her mistiest, most heartfelt and inventive and Rugolo's orchestral arrangements nothing less than amazing. There was no one like him and no one like them as team. It's fabulous to see June rediscovered by new generations and selling like hotcakes. How surprised and thrilled this adorable lady and most original talent would be.
This Is June Christy/Recalls Those Kenton Days
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    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000A299V4
    Release Date: 2001-05-09

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