She was an unusual, distinctive and stylish performer,

The American jazz and pop singer Toni Harper was a remarkable performer, beginning her career as a child star, and first appearing on stage as a dancer at the age of 12, then starting to sing with noted jazz orchestras a couple of years later, immediately having her first hit 1948 when she was 14. After a few quiet years, she started recording albums in the mid-1950s and made some high-quality jazz and sophisticated pop collections before retiring from the business in 1960 in her early'30s. This 73-track 3-CD collection comprises a significant proportion - around 70% - of her career recorded output, and includes singles for Columbia and Verve with the bands of Eddie Beale, Herb Jeffries, Dizzy Gillespie and Buddy Bregman, plus the tracks from her album 'Toni' on Verve, and the albums 'Lady Lonely' and 'Night Mood' on RCA. It includes her 1948 R&B hit single 'Candy Store Blues'. On her Verve album she is accompanied by Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Alvin Stoller. She was an unusual, distinctive and stylish performer, and this selection of recordings from across her career is an enlightening showcase for her often unheralded talents.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Dolly's Lullaby
• Candy Store Blues
• Tabby The Cat
• You're My Everything
• Bippity Be-Bop Pony
• Miss In Between Blues
• Peppermint Stick
• You're Too Tall, I'm Too Small
• The Muffin Man
• Cinderella Baby
• It's Story Time Again
• Rock-A-Bye Baby
• Floppy
• Is That All I Mean To You
• Get Goin' Engineer
• Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)
• Happy Feet
• Dish Rag
• Get Up
• Snowy White Snow And Jingle Bells
• Jingle Bells
• Baby Blues
• Peculiar Kind Of Feeling
• That's All I Want For Christmas
• Mom And Dad's Waltz
• Blacksmith Blues

Disc 2:

• Don't Send Me Home
• Melancholy Trumpet (Ooh-Wah)
• Fruit Cake
• Silly Heart
• I'll Never Forget You
• Taking A Chance On Love
• Play Me The Blues
• I Telephoned I Telegraphd
• We Got To Live, Got To Grow
• Can't We Be Friends?
• I Could Write A Book
• Gone With The Wind
• Singin' In The Rain
• Love For Sale
• Just A Sittin' And A-Rockin'
• A Foggy Day
• You Don't Know What Love Is
• Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
• Little Girl Blue
• You Took Advantage Of Me
• Like Someone In Love
• Lady Lonely
• He Was A Man

Disc 3:

• In The Dark Of Night
• My Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
• Lack Of Love
• Blue It Grows
• I Love The Blues
• You Taught Me How To Cry
• Velvet Hammer
• Other Woman
• Nobody Home But The Blues
• Busy Blues
• Love Has Come, Love Has Gone
• River Weep
• In The Still Of The Night
• Paradise
• 'Round Midnight
• The Meaning Of The Blues
• Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)
• Night After Night
• Just Go
• A Sleepin' Bee
• My Ship
• You And The Night And The Music
• Petals On The Pond
• Where Flamingos Fly

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 210 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/08/26

UPC: 824046918323