Around Midnight/Julie at Home

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Aussie two-fer includes, 'Julie...At Home' (1959) & 'Around Midnight' (1960). --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Lonesome Road
They Didn't Believe Me
By Myself
The Thrill Is Gone
You've Changed
Goodbye
Sentimental Journey
Give Me The Simple Life
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Let There Be Love
Everything Happens To Me
Around Midnight
Lonely In Paris
Misty
Black Coffee
Lush Life
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Don't Smoke In Bed
You And The Night And The Music
Something Cool
How About Me
But Not For Me
The Party's Over

Album Description

Aussie two-fer includes, 'Julie...At Home' (1959) & 'Around Midnight' (1960).

Album Details

Two Originals from One of the Great Female Vocalists who Blended Sex Appeal, Glamour and an Incredible Voice Into a Career that Lasted Decades. 24 Digitally Remastered Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Not Good.......2007-04-05

Super cheesy, sub-standard lounge music. Really bad. Take my word; save yourself some time and avoid this.

Best of the EMI 2fers.......2004-06-18

The EMI twofers series are excellent. The choice of material and the caliber of the mastering are superior in most cases. I have many and all of the Julie London issues. This one is for my taste the best of the Julie London 2fers and one of the two best of all of the twofers (the other is a Nat Cole). This show cases Julie in smaller group settings for the most part. Featured often is the recently departed BARNEY KESSEL, his accompaniement work alone is worth the purchase price. Having Julie's lovely voice, the always tastefull arrangements and the ambitious song selections in one package, makes this reissue a steal and essential listening. Buy it now, thank me later. A well deserved 5 stars.

Two brilliant albums from 1960.......2003-04-05

Typical of Julie's music, these two albums are filled mainly with romantic love songs from the Great American Songbook. Julie always covered songs that suited her style, regardless of whoever the original artist was.

On these albums, you will find covers of songs that were originally hits for Johnny Mathis (Misty), Doris Day (Sentimental journey), Peggy Lee (Black coffee, Don't smoke in bed), Libby Holman (You and the night and the music), Kay Kyser (You stepped out of a dream), Dinah Shore (You'd be so nice to come home to), Sammy Kaye (Let there be love) and Harry James (But not for me), to name just a few.

These albums do not contain anything to surprise Julie's existing fans. Her early albums generally featured sparse backing, while her later albums featured a fuller sound. The second of these albums suggest the start of the transition.

If you enjoy Julie's music, you will find that these albums live up to expectations.

A Thimbleful of voice.......2003-03-21

Before Norah Jones there was Julie London (who described her voice as a thimbleful). Both are welcome as Rock becomes old hat.

Tasty.......2002-11-01

Here's Julie in two excellent jazz albums, with top-of-the-line songs and the very best West Coast instrumentalists, great arrangements and super sound engineering. She's intimate, persuasive, technically excellent and gives every lyric its due. Beautiful listening. But, now, about "Julie At Home" being recorded in her living room. How could that be done actually? Julie's voice clearly is separate from the instrumentals, accomplished in the studio with a vocal booth. There's no sounds from the house or outside, no phones ringing, no sound bleeding as would occur from mike to mike in a live setting. Methinks this really was done in the studio. Does anyone out there know for sure?