Cleo Laine - You'll Answer To Me - A Selected Anthology [2CD]

JASMINE RECORDS

£12.73

Cat. no: JASCD885
Format: CD2
Barcode: 604988088526
Release Date: 10 Jun 2022
Genre: Pop

Dame Cleo Laine, DBE, is arguably Britain's most all-time versatile singer, although acknowledged as the U

K.'s fnest Jazz export, Cleo is comfortable in almost any musical genre and is the only female vocalist to have received Grammy nominations in the Jazz, Popular and Classical music categories. Famous for her scat singing and extraordinary vocal range, although she is a natural contralto, Cleo can produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of four octaves.

This compilation traces the frst twelve years of her career, beginning with her earliest sides as an uncredited ensemble vocalist in The Johnny Dankworth Seven, in 1951, through to her emergence as a major solo star at the turn of the 60s, when she registered an unlikely mainstream Pop hit, 'You'll Answer To Me'.

Laine has been hugely prolifc and this compilation is drawn from fourteen singles, fve EPs and six LPs. The frst comprehensive compilation of this body of her work, a number of these sides are notoriously hard to fnd elsewhere on CD.

Tracks: Mr & Mississippi (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / Lush Life (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / (It's No) Sin (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / The Very Thought Of You (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / Honeysuckle Rose (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / Easy Living (As The Johnny Dankworth Seven) / I Know You're Mine (With Johnny Dankworth & His Orch) / Ain't Misbehavin' (With Johnny Dankworth & His Orch) / Spread A Little Happiness (With The Keith Christie Quintet) / You've Done Something To My Heart (With The Keith Christie Quintet) / Mad About The Boy (With The Keith Christie Quintet) / A Love Like Ours (With The Keith Christie Quintet) / I'm Beginning To See The Light / I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket / April Age (With The Dave Lee Quintet) / April In Paris (With The Dave Lee Quintet) / The Lady Sings The Blues / Stormy Weather / Love Is Here To Stay / T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It) / Hit The Road To Dreamland / Something's Gotta Give (With The David Lindup Orch) / Unforgettable (With The David Lindup Orch) / All Of You (With The David Lindup Orch) / Teach Me Tonight (With The David Lindup Orch) / Young?At Heart (With The David Lindup Orch) / Hand Me Down Love / They Were Right / Indian Summer / Sugar / O Mistress Mine / Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind / Let's Slip Away / Thieving Boy / Ole Devil Moon (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) / Just A-Sittin' And A- Rockin' (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) / Mean To Me (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Live) (With Tubby Hayes) / The Necessary Love / You'll Answer To Me / I Only Have Eyes For You / Mister One And Only / No Such Thing As Love / Waiting For Johnny To Come Home / I Think Of You / I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues / I Don't Know Why / All About Me / I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm / I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good / I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All / I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire / I'll Be Around / You Gotta Have Love