Doris Day - Complete Recordings with Les Brown (2001)

CD1
1. Dig It
2. Let s Be Buddies
3. While the Music Plays On
4. Three at a Table for Two
5. Between Friends
6. Broomstreet
7. Barbara Allen
8. Celery Stalks at Midnight
9. Amapola
10. Easy as Pie
11. Booglie Wooglie Piggy
12. Beau Night in Hotchkiss Corners
13. Alexander the Swoose (Half Swan-Half Goose)
14. Made up My Mind               play           
15. Keep Cool, Fool               play  
16. Sentimental Journey
17. My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
18. He s Home for a Little While
19. Tain t Me
20. I ll Always Be With You
21. Red Kiss on a Blue Letter

CD 2
1. Till the End of Time
2. He ll Have to Cross the Atlantic (To Get to the Pacific)
3. I d Rather Be With You
4. Come to Baby, Do!
5. Aren t You Glad You re You
6. Last Time I Saw You
7. We ll Be Together Again
8. You Won t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
9. In the Moon Mist
10. Day by Day
11. (Ah Yes) There s Good Blues Tonight
12. All Through the Day
13. Deevil, Devil, Divil
14. I Got the Sun in the Morning         play
15. My Number One Dream Come True        play
16. Whole World Is Singing My Song
17. Are You Still in Love With Me
18. Sooner or Later
19. You Should Have Told Me
20. Christmas Song
21. It Could Happen to Sou

Doris Day - Vocals
Eddie Bailey - Trumpet
Carl Berg - Trumpet
Joe Bogart - Trumpet
Don Boyd - Trombone
Randy Brooks - Trumpet
Les Brown - Clarinet, Composer, Primary Artist
Stumpy Brown - Trombone
Warren Brown - Trombone
Ronnie Chase - Trombone
Jeff Clarkson - Piano
Warren Covington - Trombone
Mark Douglas - Sax (Alto)
Bill Forman - Trombone
Bobby Gibbons 	- Guitar
Dick Gould - Trombone
Charlie Green - Bass
Bob Higgins - Trumpet
Don Jacoby - Trumpet
Eddy Julian - Drums
Ray Klein - Trombone
John Knepper - Bass
Bob Leininger - Bass
Ray Linn - Trumpet
Steve Madrick - Sax (Alto)
Kenny Miesel - Trombone
Abe Most - Sax (Alto), Vocals
Al Muller - Trumpet
Dick Noel - Trombone
Don Paladino - Trumpet
Joe Petroni - Guitar
Nick Riviello - Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
LaVerne Rowe - Trumpet
Billy Rowland - Piano
Ed Scherr - Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Dick Shanahan - Drums
Butch Stone -Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
Wolfie Tannenbaum - Sax (Tenor)
Bob Thorne - Trumpet
George Weidler - Sax (Alto)
Hy White - Guitar
Si Zentner - Trombone
Jimmy Zito - Trumpet

Forty-two songs cut between November 1940 and August 1946, and the perfect companion to Bear Family's It's Magic box set -- anyone who's been even tempted to own that will have to get this more modestly priced precursor to that material. Day's period singing with Les Brown is, today, regarded with a degree of love and affection reserved for Ella Fitzgerald's era with Chick Webb, or Frank Sinatra's work with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Yet Sony Music's own releases devoted to Doris Day and Les Brown spread the music around to several different CDs, and suffered from sound that, today, seems substandard. These newly remastered tracks, offered in chronological order, including one previously unissued song ("Are You Still in Love with Me"), not only display a far richer, warmer sound, but have been presented with the kind of care that is normally reserved for the best parts of a label's catalog -- which these sides definitely are. Day's voice during this period (she was 16 when she cut her first sides with Brown) was an astonishingly expressive instrument. Anyone who thinks that 42 songs is more than they want simply hasn't heard her darkly emotive rendition of "When the Music Plays On," or the playful "Three at a Table with You," her jaunty "Broomstreet," or her gossamer enunciation (highlighted by some lovely high notes) on "Between Friends" -- the arrangements and the performances have the texture of the most finely spun silk. The hits are here, of course, but there's hardly a song on hand that doesn't deserve a hearing 50-odd years later. The notes by Joseph Laredo are also lively and informative. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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