I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) - Dick Haymes, Ahlert, Fred E.
Lament to Love - Dick Haymes, Torme, Mel
A Sinner Kissed an Angel - Dick Haymes, David, Mack
I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest - Dick Haymes, Block, Martin
Wait for Me, Mary - Dick Haymes, Simon, Nat
You'll Never Know - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
In My Arms - Dick Haymes, Grouya, Ted
It Can't Be Wrong - Dick Haymes, Gannon, Kim
Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey - Dick Haymes, McCree, Junie
Long Ago (And Far Away) - Dick Haymes, Gershwin, Ira
How Blue the Night - Dick Haymes, Adamson, Harold
Our Waltz - Dick Haymes, Burton, Nat
It Had to Be You - Dick Haymes, Jones, Isham
Together - Dick Haymes, Brown, Lew
Great Day - Dick Haymes, Eliscu, Edward
By the Old Corral - Dick Haymes, Franklin
Let the Rest of the World Go By - Dick Haymes, Ball, Ernest
The More I See You - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
I Wish I Knew - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
Where or When - Dick Haymes, Hart, Lorenz
They Didn't Believe Me - Dick Haymes, Kern, Jerome
Love Letters - Dick Haymes, Heyman, Edward
Laura - Dick Haymes, Mercer, Johnny
I'll Buy That Dream - Dick Haymes, Magidson, Herbert
Some Sunday Morning - Dick Haymes, Heindorf, Ray
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
It Might As Well Be Spring - Dick Haymes, Hammerstein, Oscar
Slowly - Dick Haymes, Goell, Kermit
That's for Me - Dick Haymes, Hammerstein, Oscar
Till the End of Time - Dick Haymes, Kaye, Buddy
How Deep Is the Ocean? - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Dick Haymes, Carroll, Harry
Oh! What It Seemed to Be - Dick Haymes, Benjamin
It's a Grand Night for Singing - Dick Haymes, Hammerstein, Oscar
In Love in Vain - Dick Haymes, Kern, Jerome
Two Sleepy People - Dick Haymes, Carmichael, Hoagy
People Will Say We're in Love - Dick Haymes, Hammerstein, Oscar
Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? - Dick Haymes, Gershwin, George
For You, For Me, For Evermore - Dick Haymes, Gershwin, George
Mi Vida - Dick Haymes, Lecuona, Ernesto
The Girl That I Marry - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Dick Haymes, Harburg, E.Y.
Stella by Starlight - Dick Haymes, Washington, Ned
Mam'selle - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
Anything You Can Do - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
There's No Business Like Show Business - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love - Dick Haymes, Harburg, E.Y.
I Wish I Didn't Love You So - Dick Haymes, Loesser, Frank
And Mimi - Dick Haymes, Kennedy, Jimmy
What'll I Do? - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
You Do - Dick Haymes, Gordon
Track Listings (26) - Disc #3
Little White Lies - Dick Haymes, Donaldson, Walter
Teresa - Dick Haymes, Hoffman, Jack
My Sin - Dick Haymes, Brown, Lew
It's Magic - Dick Haymes, Cahn, Sammy
By the Way - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
Say It Isn't So - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Lady of the Evening - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
The Girl on the Magazine Cover - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
All Alone - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Say It With Music - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Soft Lights and Sweet Music - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
I'd Love to Call You My Sweetheart - Dick Haymes, Ash
What Did I Do? - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
Golden Earrings - Dick Haymes, Evans
You Can't Be True, Dear - Dick Haymes, Cotton, Hal
Nature Boy - Dick Haymes, Ahbez, Eden
A Room Full of Roses - Dick Haymes, Spencer, Tim
Maybe It's Because - Dick Haymes, Ruby, Harry
Let's Take an Old Fashion Walk - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Little Fish in a Big Pond - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Hush, Little Darlin' - Dick Haymes, Clarke
Keepsakes - Dick Haymes, Lerner
I'm in Love - Dick Haymes, Saxon
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Dick Haymes, Porter, Cole
Why Won't Ya? - Dick Haymes, Carroll
Wunderbar - Dick Haymes, Porter, Cole
Track Listings (25) - Disc #4
The Old Master Painter - Dick Haymes, Gillespie, Haven
I Surrender, Dear - Dick Haymes, Barris, Harry
You Stepped Out of a Dream - Dick Haymes, Brown, Nacio Herb
Can I Come in for a Second - Dick Haymes, Cahn, Sammy
I Oughta Know More About You - Dick Haymes, Heyman, Edward
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? - Dick Haymes, Gordon, Mack
Wishing (Will Make It So) - Dick Haymes, DeSylva, Buddy
Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone) - Dick Haymes, Burton, Val
A Little Bit Independent - Dick Haymes, Burke, Joe [2]
Count Every Star - Dick Haymes, Coquatrix, Bruno
Don't Be Afraid - Dick Haymes, Newman
Your Eyes Have Told Me So - Dick Haymes, Blaufuss
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Dick Haymes, Dubin, Al
Can Anyone Explain? - Dick Haymes, Benjamin, Bennie
Empty Saddles - Dick Haymes, Brennan, Jacob Otis
You're Just in Love - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
Once Upon a Time Today - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
It's a Lovely Day Today - Dick Haymes, Berlin, Irving
I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest - Dick Haymes, Block
Everything Happens to Me - Dick Haymes, Adair, Tom
Too Late Now - Dick Haymes, Lane
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year - Dick Haymes, Loesser, Frank
Sunday, Monday or Always - Dick Haymes, Burke, Johnny [Lyri
It Could Happen to You - Dick Haymes, Burke, Johnny [Lyri
Adieu - Dick Haymes, Carroll
The title says it all - 101 original recordings from the 1940s & 50s by Dick Haymes, who remains a huge favourite to this day. This superb, digitally remastered set includes every one of his chart successes. Over five ... more »hours playing time, featuring many duets with Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, Andrews Sisters, & Ethel Merman« less
The title says it all - 101 original recordings from the 1940s & 50s by Dick Haymes, who remains a huge favourite to this day. This superb, digitally remastered set includes every one of his chart successes. Over five hours playing time, featuring many duets with Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, Andrews Sisters, & Ethel Merman
CD Reviews
Great Price, Great pressings
DodgyUSA | Jamaica Plain, MA United States | 01/06/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This Jasmine Music collection of Dick Haymes on 4 cds with over 100 tracks is a great price!For collectors of Haymes some of the tracks are duplicated on other recordings but this is definitely worth the price.
Duets with Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, the Andrew Sisters (I guess that counts as a quartet !) are all represented.
The pressings are clean and the sound is wonderful. Highly recommended."
"Golden" Indeed!
Dr. Glenn W. Briggs | KSC, Florida & Chengdu, China | 05/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Dick Haymes had one of the most mellow voices of the early bona fide crooners, and this collection is "golden" indeed! It is virtually a "complete" collection of his very best work. He was among the best crooners of an era that brought forth many, such as the early Sinatra and the great Buddy Clark. If you enjoy great baritones, rank Dick with the two named above, and such true crooners as Jack Jones, Matt Monro, Steve Lawrence, Perry Como, Don Cherry, and John Gary. For those of you who are too young to recall these super male singers, you have no idea what you are missing - like, real music."
Excellent balladeer of the forties
Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 03/30/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Dick Haymes really wanted to be a songwriter, but nobody was interested in his writing - however, they liked his voice and he ended up having a very successful career as a singer. I notice that none of the songs here credit Dick as a songwriter, so I assume that he gave up his ambitions in that direction. As a singer, Dick started his career as a singer with Harry James and had a couple of top ten hits during that time. However, one record that didn't chart upon initial release in 1941, I'll get by, made number one when re-issued in 1944. By that time, Dick had firmly established his solo career, but the bonus hit would presumably have come as a welcome bonus.
Dick's solo career started with a flourish in 1943, his first two A-sides (You'll never know, It can't be wrong) both making number one, while their B-sides charted in their own right, both easily making the top ten. Dick never made number one again except for the already-mentioned re-release of I'll get by, but he had plenty of other top ten hits, including several excellent duets with Helen Forrest. All their seven top ten hits together are featured here, but the equivalent Helen Forrest compilation contains all 18 of their duets. Wisely, the compilers of this set didn't duplicate all 18 duets here.
Of the solo tracks here, perhaps the most famous song is Love letters, which didn't make the top ten for Dick, though it came close despite being the B-side of Till the end of time (a top three hit for Dick, but a number one hit for Perry Como). Love letters appears to have gone almost un-noticed until Ketty Lester covered it and had a huge international hit with it in the sixties. Elvis Presley followed suit a couple of years later. Alison Moyet had a huge UK hit with the song in the eighties. All of which shows that you can't hide a good song. Another song here, The more I see you, also inspired a sixties cover that became an international hit, this time by Chris Montez. At least the potential of the song was recognized first time around, Dick's version having been released as an A-side and becoming a top ten hit.
Helen Forrest is not the only female singer guest in this compilation, as there are also eight duets with the Andrews sisters (three of which also feature Bing Crosby), three duets with the Patty Andrews, two duets with Judy Garland and one duet each with Evelyn Knight, Ethel Merman and Eileen Wilson. Between them, these duets produced four minor hits, so the public definitely preferred Helen Forrest as Dick's duet partner, However, these duets are interesting in their own way. Fans of the Andrews sisters in particular have plenty of reason to invest in this set. I have a lot of Andrews sisters compilations and some of the duets featured here are new to me.
There is plenty of great music here by a balladeer who was a major star in his time. If you enjoy those other great male balladeers of the forties, Bing Crosby and Perry Como, you'll love Dick's music - and it's unlikely that there will ever be a better collection of it than this one."