ANNETTE HANSHAW - Lovable & Sweet : 25 Vintage Hits (1997) FLAC (tracks), lossless

 
Annette Hanshaw was one of the finest jazz singers of the late '20s. All of her recordings deserve to be reissued complete and in chronological order. But in lieu of that, this single CD is an excellent introduction to Hanshaw's talents. Covering virtually her entire career, from when she was still 15 up until just two years before her premature retirement at age 26, the disc features Hanshaw in a variety of settings. She accompanies herself on piano on "Falling in Love With You" and is backed by such jazz all-stars as cornetist Red Nichols, trombonist Miff Mole, clarinetist Jimmy Lytell, Tommy Dorsey (on trumpet), clarinetist Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto, the orchestras of Will Osborne and Victor Young, and even Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio. Highlights of the fine sampler include "Black Bottom," "Big City Blues," "Little White Lies," "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," and "Let's Fall in Love," but these 25 numbers are only the tip of the iceberg. by Scott Yanow
Tracklist:
1 Black Bottom 3:07
Lew Brown / Buddy DeSylva / Ray Henderson
2 Six Feet of Papa 3:13
3 Falling in Love With You 3:20
Joe Davis
4 Do Do Do 3:09
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
5 Ev'rything's Made for Love 2:54
Howard Johnson / Al Sherman / Charles Tobias
6 Ain't He Sweet 2:21
Milton Ager / Jack Yellen
7 Here or There 2:46
Joe Davis
8 Nothin' 2:26
Lou Handman / Roy Turk
9 You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You? 2:41
Lew Brown / Buddy DeSylva / Ray Henderson
10 That's You, Baby 2:52
Con Conrad / Archie Gottler / Sam Mitchell
11 Big City Blues 3:05
Con Conrad / Archie Gottler / Sam Mitchell
12 Pagan Love Song 3:10
Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
13 Ua No a Like (Sweet Constancy) 3:17
Unknown Blues Band
14 Lovable and Sweet 2:49
Sidney Clare / Oscar Levant
15 The Right Kind of Man 3:22
16 Telling It to the Daisies 3:14
Harry Warren / Joe Young
17 Little White Lies 2:56
Walter Donaldson
18 Body and Soul 3:05
Frank Eyton / Johnny Green / Edward Heyman / Robert Sour
19 Would You Like to Take a Walk? 3:38
Mort Dixon / Billy Rose / Harry Warren
20 Walkin' My Baby Back Home 2:45
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
21 Ho Hum! 3:04
Edward Heyman / Dana Suesse
22 Fit as a Fiddle 3:01
Arthur Freed / Al Goodhart / Al Hoffman
23 Moon Song 2:55
Sam Coslow / Arthur Johnston
24 We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye 3:01
Harry Woods
25 Let's Fall in Love 2:50
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler

ANNETTE HANSHAW - Girl Next Door (1927 • 1932) (1994) Mp3

 
Here's an excellent, chronologically presented introduction to Annette Hanshaw, a marvelous singer whose personality glowed with unique warmth, even when deliberately mimicking Helen Kane's baby talk or Ruth Etting's nice-girl persona. Annette Hanshaw generally surpassed her peers by being true to her own heart while developing a personal approach to intuitive jazz sensibilities and scat singing, wrapping herself around each melody with irresistible charm and everyday elegance, often tagging her recordings with the offhand phrase "That's all!" An excellent set of liner notes were written by Roy Evans, a dedicated fan who befriended the elderly chanteuse in 1969. His commentary provides valuable insight into just who Annette Hanshaw really was. Self-critical and unusually modest to the point of insecurity, the singer was notorious for requesting multiple takes in order to get a song exactly right. Both Hanshaw and Evans disparaged "I Love a Ukelele," recorded in April of 1930 with Frank Ferera's Hawaiian Trio. But this is a perfectly harmless Hawaiian novelty tune, and the singer sounds heavenly. She could sing anything, anything at all, in any company, and sound like nobody else. Throughout this delightful retrospective Annette Hanshaw may also be heard accompanied by her own Novelty Orchestra and her Sizzlin' Syncopators, and with Rudy Vallée's Connecticut Yankees, the New Englanders, and the Three Blue Streaks, as well as a quaint, unidentified male chorus on "Happy Days Are Here Again."  by arwulf arwulf