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The Art Lund Collection 1941-59
The Art Lund Collection 1941-59

Art Lund
Styles: Easy Listening, Pop
Catalogue Number: ADDCD3347
Art Lund was a singer with the big bands of Benny Goodman, with whom he had several hits, and Harry James before embarking on a solo career and scoring a No. 1 in 1947 with his first release “Mam’selle”. He had several more hits during the 1940s and ‘50s until, as a middle-of-the-road crooner, his music was overtaken by rock ‘n’ roll and its aftermath and he turned to TV and movie acting. This great-value 51-track 2-CD set features a number of recordings with the Benny Goodman Orchestra from his early career, including duets with Peggy Lee, and also with The Harry James Orchestra, but mainly comprises selected A and B sides from his solo releases for the MGM and Coral labels from this era, with at least one side included from a significant proportion of of fifty or so releases during these years. It features all his ten career chart entries, including the No. 1 “Mam’selle”, the No. 4 “Peg O’ My Heart” and the Top 20 hits “And Mimi”, “Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue”, “On A Slow Boat To China” and “Mona Lisa”, plus three Top 20 hits with Benny Goodman, including the No. 5 “Blues Skies”. It’s an entertaining cross-section of his recordings across the best part of two decades, showcasing the breadth of his talent, and very much capturing the zeitgeist of the popular music of the era.

Disk 1:
Track Title Artist
1 Winter Weather The Benny Goodman Orchestra, with Peggy Lee & Art Lund
2 Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat  The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art London
3 If You Build A Better Mousetrap The Benny Goodman Orchestra, with Peggy Lee & Art Lund
4 When The Roses Bloom Again The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art London
5 A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)  The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art London
6 It's The Talk Of The Town The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art London
7 Don't Be A Baby, Baby  Benny Goodman Sextet with Art Lund
8 I Don't Know Enough About You The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art Lund
9 Blue Skies The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art Lund
10 My Blue Heaven The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Art Lund
11 I Tipped My Hat (And Slowly Rode Away)  Harry James & His Orchestra with Art Lund
12 Mam'selle Art Lund
13 Peg Of My Heart Art Lund
14 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve Art Lund
15 It's A Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around) Art Lund
16 Jealous Art Lund
17 And Mimi Art Lund
18 But Beautiful Art Lund
19 I'll Always Be In Love With You Art Lund
20 What's Good About Goodbye Art Lund
21 Someone Cares Art Lund
22 It Only Happens When I Dance With You Art Lund
23 I Long To Belong To You Art Lund
24 Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue Art Lund
Disk 2:
Track Title Artist
1 You Call Everybody Darling Art Lund
2 On A Slow Boat To China Art Lund
3 Bluer Than Blue Art Lund
4 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Art Lund
5 You Was! Art Lund
6 If I Could Be With You Art Lund
7 Sleepy Hollow Art Lund
8 My Street Art Lund
9 Copper Canyon Art Lund
10 Mona Lisa Art Lund
11 Birmingham Bounce Art Lund
12 You Wonderful You Art Lund
13 If I Were A Bell Art Lund
14 Serenata Art Lund
15 From Wizzelton To Wuzzelton (Is Fourteen Miles) Art Lund
16 My Resistance Is Low Art Lund & Marian Morgan
17 In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening Art Lund
18 Hangin' Around With You Art Lund
19 Business In Missouri Art Lund
20 Pigtails And Freckles Art Lund & Anita Gordon
21 Cincinnati Ding Dong Art Lund
22 Crying In The Chapel Art Lund
23 It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane Art Lund
24 Cherokee Art Lund
25 Side Tracked Art Lund
26 Philadelphia, U.S.A. Art Lund
27 My Girl Is Just Enough Woman For Me Art Lund
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