Kenny Baker - Starlit Hour (24 tracks) +Album Reviews

Kenny Baker
Starlit Hour
Genres: Country, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Full Moon - Kenny Baker, Curiel
2. Lost and Found - Kenny Baker, Tomlin
3. Sing a Song of Harvest - Kenny Baker, Mitchell
4. White Sails - Kenny Baker, Archer
5. Blue Tahitian Moon - Kenny Baker, Gordon
6. This Is the Night - Kenny Baker, Bellin, Lewis
7. Easter Sunday With You - Kenny Baker, Reid
8. Make Believe - Kenny Baker, Hammerstein, Oscar
9. You Are Love - Kenny Baker, Hammerstein, Oscar
10. The Starlit Hour - Kenny Baker, DeRose, Peter
11. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise - Kenny Baker, Hammerstein, Oscar
12. Wooden Wedding - Kenny Baker, Nash
13. Westwind - Kenny Baker, Nash
14. The Moon and I - Kenny Baker, Gilbert
15. Toyland - Kenny Baker, Herbert
16. Floretta - Kenny Baker, Herbert
17. When Ships Go Sailing Back to Avalon - Kenny Baker, Roland
18. Little Grey Home in the West - Kenny Baker, Eardley, Jon
19. Just Let Me Look at You - Kenny Baker, Fields, Dorothy
20. Lover, Come Back to Me - Kenny Baker, Hammerstein, Oscar
21. Whisper That You Love Me - Kenny Baker, Engelmann
22. Nina - Kenny Baker, Pergolesi, Giovanni
23. Yesterthoughts - Kenny Baker, Adams
24. Love Walked In - Kenny Baker, Gershwin, George

CD Details

All Artists: Kenny Baker
Title: Starlit Hour
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Flare UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/1938
Re-Release Date: 9/25/2006
Genres: Country, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 182478564229, 5031344002257

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A Tenor Voice To Imparadise the Heart!

Curtis Crawford | Charlottesville, VA United States | 06/22/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"[UPDATE FEBRUARY 2009 -- After spending a good deal of time with this recording, I'd raise it to five stars if Amazon's software would let me. The inferior recording technology hurts the orchestras more than it hurts Baker.]

This is one of three fine CDs offered by Amazon that feature Kenny Baker, a superb American tenor of the 1930s and 40s. In his repertory of love ballads from popular song and light opera-indeed in any kind of tenor singing-I think the beauty of his recorded voice is unmatched. (You can't, alas, hear him on this site, but excerpts for listening are provided at the other Baker CDs mentioned below.)

The light opera selections on this CD include: - "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" and "Lover, Come Back to Me" from Sigmund Romberg's NEW MOON. "Make Believe" and "You Are Love" from Jerome Kern's SHOW BOAT. "Toyland" and "Floretta" from Victor Herbert's BABES IN TOYLAND. "The Moon and I" from Gilbert and Sullivan's MIKADO. "Wooden Wedding" and "Westwind" from Kurt Weill's ONE TOUCH OF VENUS. One surprise is the 18th century Italian love song, "Nina," long attributed to Pergolesi, but now to Legrenzio Ciampi. There are songs you have always known, and others you will wish you had. Some, you won't have realized how lovely they are, until you hear Kenny sing them.

The 24 songs here were originally recorded at 78 rpm between 1938 and 1946, then remastered for this CD in 2001. The originals had some surface noise, presumably removed by reducing the treble. This gave Baker a clearer but somewhat less rich sound. A second Baker CD featured by Amazon, LOVE WALKED IN, faced with the same problem, was more faithful to Baker's voice at the expense of some interference. The third Baker CD, BABES IN TOYLAND, has the best transfer of his voice, but unfortunately only six songs that use it. Faced with the disadvantages of choosing only one, buy all three.

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