Love
on the Rocks
(Liberty: LRP-3249/LST-7249)
Released: 1963
Producer: "Snuff" Garrett. Arranger: Pete King
Liner Notes:
Here is "Love on the Rocks," an album in which Julie London ably expresses--in a dozen great songs that set the mood perfectly--the emotions of a woman whose love has been spurned. She adds to the already expressive lyrics the magic ingredient of her provocative style--the style that is Julie's distinctive trademark.
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Tracks
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Love on the Rocks |
F. Forest - B. Hughes |
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Guess Who I Saw Today |
M. Grand - E. Boyd |
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Where Are You |
J. McHugh - H. Adamson |
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How Did He Look |
A. Silver - G. Shelley |
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What's New |
B. Haggart - J. Burke |
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A Cottage For Sale |
L. Conley - W. Robison |
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The End of a Love Affair |
Edward C. Redding |
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I'll Be Seeing You |
I. Kahal - S. Fain |
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Where Did the Gentleman Go |
Bobby Troup |
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Don't Worry 'Bout Me |
T. Koehler - R. Bloom |
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The Man That Got Away |
H. Arlen - I. Gershwin |
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Willow Weep for Me |
Ann Ronell |
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Latin
in a Satin Mood
(Liberty: LRP-3278/LST-7278)
Released: 1963
Arranger: Ernie Freeman
All Music Guide review by Nick Dedina:
Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album -- London sounds casual and confident throughout -- but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against? Latin in a Satin Mood ends up sounding exactly like what it was intended to be -- an aid to put a little vanilla Latin sparkle in suburban American bedrooms. If you want your London in the Latin style, then try her excellent Getz/Gilberto-style tribute to Cole Porter, All Through the Night. Julie London's affinity for West Coast jazz and her melancholy emotional pull were much better suited to bossa nova than to Caribbean Latin music.
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Tracks
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Frenesi |
A. Dominguez |
2:24 |
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Be Mine Tonight |
Skylar - Lara |
2:33 |
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Yours |
Gamse - Sherr - Roig |
2:46 |
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Besame Mucho |
Velasquez - Skylar |
2:07 |
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Adios |
Woods - Madriguera |
2:31 |
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Sway |
Gimberl - Ruiz |
2:33 |
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Perfidia |
Leeds - Dominquez |
2:28 |
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Come Closer to Me |
Stewart - Farres |
1:53 |
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Amor |
Skylar - Ruiz - Mendez |
2:42 |
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Magic is the Moonlight |
Pasquale - Grever |
2:21 |
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You Belong to My Heart |
Gilbert - Lara |
2:48 |
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Vaya Con Dios |
Russell - Pepper - James |
2:38 |
Please e-mail me if you have information on why there are two different album covers.
Julie's Golden Greats (Liberty: LRP-3291/LST-7291)
Released: 1963
Tracks
(Original album is in parentheses after song title)
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Cry Me a River (Julie Is Her Name) |
Arthur Hamilton |
2:36 |
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Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado) (End of the World) |
Hendricks - Cavanaugh - Jobim - Mendonca |
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Come On-A My House (Love Letters) |
R. Bagdasarian - W. Saroyan |
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I Love You Porgy (Love Letters) |
Heyward - G. Gershwin - I. Gershwin |
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Midnight Sun (Julie) |
J. Mercer - L. Hampton - S. Burke |
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In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Around Midnight) |
B. Hilliard - D. Mann |
2:49 |
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Hot Toddy (Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2) |
R. Flanagan - H. Hendler |
1:45 |
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Daddy (Julie) |
Bobby Troup |
2:25 |
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Black Coffee (Around Midnight) |
P.F. Webster - S. Burke |
2:59 |
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Must Be Catchin' (1959 single) |
R. Stanley |
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Blue Moon (Julie Is Her Name, Vol. 2) |
Rodgers - Hart |
2:20 |
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Love Letters (Love Letters) |
E. Heyman - V. Young |
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