POLLY BERGEN — Bergen Sings Morgan + The Party's Over (1999) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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. John Bush
Bergen Sings Morgan (1957)
1 Don't Ever Leave Me! 2:31
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
2 Can't Help Lovin' That Man 4:43
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
3 More Than You Know 3:23
Written-By – W. Rose, Eliscu, Youmans
4 The Little Things You Used To Do 3:26
Written-By – Dublin, Warren
5 Something To Remember You By 3:02
Written-By – Dietz - A. Schwartz
6 What Wouldn't I Do For That Man! 3:58
Written-By – Harburg, Gorney
7 (Here I Am) Broken Hearted 3:24
Written-By – DeSylva-Brown-Henderson
8 Sand In My Shoes 4:02
Written-By – Swanstrom, Alter
9 Mean To Me 3:41
Written-By – Ahlert, Turk
10  Body And Soul 3:34
Written-By – Heyman, Eyton, J. Green, Sour
11 Why Was I Born? 4:52
Written-By – Hammerstein II-Kern
The Party's Over (1957)
12 The Party's Over 2:50
Lyrics By – A Green, Music By – Comden
13 It Never Entered My Mind 3:25
Lyrics By – Richard Rogers, Music By – Hart
14 Where's The Boy I Saved For A Rainy Day 2:24
Lyrics By – Bergersen, Music By – Rox
15 Make The Man Love Me 2:13
Lyrics By – Schwartz, Music By – D Fields
16 But Not For Me 2:54
Lyrics By – George Gershwin, Music By – Ira Gershwin
17 My Melancholy Baby 2:00
Lyrics By – ME Watson, Music By – GA Norton
18 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 2:39
Lyrics By – Jerome Kern, Music By – Otto Harbach
19 You'll Never Know 2:51
Lyrics By – Warren, Music By – M Gordon
20 I'm Thru With Love 2:54
Lyrics By – F Livingston, Music By – G Kahn
21 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 2:13
Composed By – Cole Porter
22 I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan 2:45
Lyrics By – Schwartz, Music By – Dietz
23 You Don't Know What Love Is 3:16
Lyrics By – DePaul, Music By – D Raye
Credits :
Conductor – Luther Henderson
Orchestra – Luther Henderson And His Orchestra
Vocals – Polly Bergen
Notes :
Tracks 1-11: Previously released as Columbia Records CL 994 in 1957
Tracks 12-23: Previously released as Columbia Records CL 1031 in 1957