This Collectables two-fer includes the first two albums that Polly Bergen recorded for Columbia, Bergen Sings Morgan and The Party's Over, which were also her only charting albums. Apparently stuck in the torch-singing mold of Helen Morgan, the Broadway star whom she saluted on her first album, Bergen sings a cavalcade of anthems for a lonely heart: "The Little Things You Used to Do," "Something to Remember You By," "Mean to Me," "Why Was I Born?," "It Never Entered My Mind," "But Not for Me," "I'm Thru With Love," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," and "You Don't Know What Love Is." The virtually unending shower of gloom is difficult to take, though it's possible that most listeners will have cried themselves to sleep before the 23 songs have run their course.
by John Bush
Tracklist:
Bergen Sings Morgan (1957)
1
Don't Ever Leave Me!
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
2
Can't Help Lovin' That Man
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
3
More Than You Know
Written-By – W. Rose, Eliscu, Youmans
4
The Little Things You Used To Do
Written-By – Dublin, Warren
5
Something To Remember You By
Written-By – Dietz - A. Schwartz
6
What Wouldn't I Do For That Man!
Written-By – Harburg, Gorney
7
(Here I Am) Broken Hearted
Written-By – DeSylva-Brown-Henderson
8
Sand In My Shoes
Written-By – Swanstrom, Alter
9
Mean To Me
Written-By – Ahlert, Turk
10
Body And Soul
Written-By – Heyman, Eyton, J. Green, Sour
11
Why Was I Born?
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
The Party's Over (1957)
12
The Party's Over
Lyrics By – A Green
Music By – Comden
13
It Never Entered My Mind
Lyrics By – Richard Rogers
Music By – Hart
14
Where's The Boy I Saved For A Rainy Day
Lyrics By – Bergersen
Music By – Rox
15
Make The Man Love Me
Lyrics By – Schwartz
Music By – D Fields
16
But Not For Me
Lyrics By – George Gershwin
Music By – Ira Gershwin
17
My Melancholy Baby
Lyrics By – ME Watson
Music By – GA Norton
18
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Lyrics By – Jerome Kern
Music By – Otto Harbach
19
You'll Never Know
Lyrics By – Warren
Music By – M Gordon
20
I'm Thru With Love
Lyrics By – F Livingston
Music By – G Kahn
21
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Composed By – Cole Porter
22
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
Lyrics By – Schwartz
Music By – Dietz
23
You Don't Know What Love Is
Lyrics By – DePaul
Music By – D Raye
