Best-known for her US Top 10 hit with "Fascination" and her 1958 UK No. 1 with "The Day The Rains Came",

Best-known for her US Top 10 hit with 'Fascination' and her 1958 UK No. 1 with 'The Day The Rains Came', Jane Morgan was a singer with a fascinating background. Born in 1924, she sang competitively from an early age and attended the famous Juilliard School of Music in New York, training to be an opera singer, and funding her studies by singing in night-clubs. She was invited to Paris in the mid-'40s by orchestra leader Bernard Hilda, and became a popular cabaret performer, singing in French, and appearing on television, and while in Europe she made records in Paris and London. Returning to the USA in the early '50s, she signed with the newly-established Kapp Records, for whom she recorded until the early 1960s. This 54-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her early singles recorded in Europe for the Columbia, Decca, Polydor and Parlophone labels, and then from her US singles on Kapp, with at least one side included of all her Kapp singles from these years. It features all her US and UK chart entries from these years, including her UK No. 1'The Day The Rains Came' and the US No. 7 'Fascination'. She had voice with remarkable purity and clarity, with an effortless sense of phrasing that made her an extremely versatile artist, able to handle repertoire across the pop spectrum. This substantial cross-section of her primary career as a recording artist provides an enlightening and enjoyable showcase for her distinctive talent as a song stylist.

 

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Track Listing

• Hey! Ba-Ba Re Bop
• Les Temps Qu'une Hirondelle
• Cement Mixer (Put-Ti, Put-Ti)
• C'est Tout
• Les Feuilles Mortes
• Comme On Est Bien Dans Tes Bras
• Woody Woodpecker
• April In Portugal
• Say You're Mine Again
• Eyes Of Blue
• Baseball, Baseball
• Fair Weather Friends
• Why (Are There Things We Can't Explain?)
• Why Don't They Leave Us Alone
• Flyin' High
• Give Me Your Word
• In Paree
• Let's Go Steady
• Midnight Blues
• La Ronde
• Two Different Worlds
• From The First Hello To Our Last Goodbye
• Come Home Come Home Come Home
• It's Not For Me To Say
• Around The World In Eighty Days
• Fascination
• I'm New At The Game Of Romance
• I've Got Bells In On My Heart
• Enchanted Island
• The Day The Rains Came
• Le Jour Ou La Pluie Viendra (Sung in French)
• I May Never Pass This Way Again
• You'll Never Walk Alone
• If Only I Could Live My Life Again
• To Love And Be Loved
• Love Is Like Champagne (Mon Manege A Moi)
• With Open Arms
• I Can't Begin To Tell You
• I'm In Love
• Happy Anniversary
• C'est La Vie C'est L'Amour
• My Love Doesn't Love Me At All (Ballad Of Lady Jane)
• The Bells Of St. Mary's
• Romantica
• Lord And Master
• Somebody
• The Angry Sea
• In Jerusalem
• Love Makes The World Go Round (Theme From 'Carnival')
• It Takes Love
• Moon River
• What Now My Love
• Forever My Love
• Waiting For Charley To Come Home

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 143 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/07/21

UPC: 824046337926