Catalogue: JASCD 378
Price Code: B
Release Date: 01/08/2000
Bar Code: 604988 03782 1
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Bea WAINMy Reverie
 
Bea Wain's major successes were as Larry Clinton's
band singer, most famously with My reverie, one of four American number one
hits. This compilation contains some of her Larry Clinton tracks and some of her
solo music after she quit Larry's band, all in chronological order. Her solo
tracks are not that different in style from her band music. Like so many of the
band singers of the time, Bea could swing, though she could also do the love
songs. The songs here include three of those number one hits (My reverie, Heart
and soul, Deep purple) though Cry baby cry, their first number one, is omitted.
You can find it on a Larry Clinton compilation, along with many other hits they
had together, some of which are also on this CD, but most are not. You may
remember Deep purple - it was a big American hit for Nino Tempo and April
Stevens in the sixties, and again for Donny and Marie Osmond in the seventies -
this is the version that is probably best known in Britain. Bea and Larry's band
did one of the original versions. There were several versions released at around
the same time (in 1939) but this version outsold them all, by a considerable
margin. There are other big hits from her Larry Clinton days here too - Old
folks, The masquerade is over and My heart belongs to Daddy - but most of this
CD is filled with her solo music. Bea only had four solo hits, but only three of
them (Do I worry?, My sister and I, Kiss the boys goodbye) are included. The
other, I'm nobody's baby, is missing, but it doesn't matter - this is a
brilliant compilation of Bea's music. Of the non-hits, my favorite song here is
Oh you crazy moon, but every track is wonderful.
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