KAY STARR - I Cry By Night + "Losers, Weepers..." (1997) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Longtime jazz vocalist Kay Starr had two of her full-length LP releases compiled here on this CD by EMI.
Tracklist :
I Cry By Night (1962)
1     I'm Alone Because I Love You 2:42
Al Young
2     I Cry by Night 2:51
Doris Fisher
3     Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 2:23
Charles Warfield / Clarence Williams
4     More Than You Know 2:37
Edward Eliscu / Billy Rose / Vincent Youmans
5     Lover Man 2:46
Jimmy Davis / Roger "Ram" Ramirez / Jimmy Sherman
6     My Kinda Love 2:42
Louis Alter / Jo Trent
7     It Had to Be You 2:49
Isham Jones / Gus Kahn
8     Whispering Grass 2:22
Doris Fisher / Fred Fisher
9     Nevertheless 2:59
Bert Kalmar / Harry Ruby
10     What Do You See in Her? 2:42
Hal David / Frank Weldon
11     P.S. I Love You 3:02
Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer
12     I'm Still in Love With You 3:09
T-Bone Walker
"Losers, Weepers... " (1960)    
13     You Always Hurt the One You Love 2:53
Doris Fisher / Allan Roberts
14     I Should Care 2:23
Sammy Cahn / Axel Stordahl / Paul Weston
15     I'm a Fool to Care 2:43
Ted Daffan
16     Don't Take Your Love from Me 2:30
Henry Nemo
17     When I Lost You 2:09
Irving Berlin
18     Only Forever 2:47
Johnny Burke / Monaco
19     Gonna Get a Guy 3:19
Sam M. Lewis
20     Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 2:56
Sidney Clare / Sam H. Stept
21     I Miss You So 2:33
Jimmy Henderson / Sydney Robin / Bertha Scott
22     A Faded Summer Love 2:52
Phil Baxter
23     When a Man Loves a Woman 3:19
Bernie Hanighen / Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer
24     Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall 1:53
Doris Fisher / Allan Roberts

KAY STARR - Jazz Singer + The Fabulous Favourites! (2002) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
Jazz Singer (1960)
1  I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You) 2:47
Raymond B. Egan / Roy Marsh / Thomas Pitts
2 My Man 2:42
Jacques Charles / Channing Pollack / Albert Willemetz / Maurice Yvain
3 Breezing Along With the Breeze 1:57
Haven Gillespie / Seymour Simons / Richard A. Whiting
4 All by Myself 3:02
Irving Berlin
5 Hard Hearted Hannah 2:31
Milton Ager / Charles Bates / Bob Bigelow / Jack Yellen
6 Me Too 2:00
Al Sherman / Charles Tobias / Harry Woods
7 Happy Days and Lonely Nights 2:51
Fred Fisher / Billy Rose
8 I Only Wanted a Buddy - Not a Sweetheart 3:14
Stan Jones
9 Hummin' to Myself  2:57
Sammy Fain / Siegel Magidson / Monty Siegel
10 My Honey's Lovin' Arms 2:47
Joseph Meyer / Herman Ruby
11 Sunday 2:50
Chester Conn / Benny Krueger / Ned Miller / Jule Styne
12 (I Would Do) Anything for You 2:50
Alexander Hill / Claude Hopkins / Bobby Williams
The Fabulous Favourites! (1964)
13  Side by Side 2:52
Harry Woods
14 So Tired 3:06
Russ Morgan / Jack Stuart
15 Mississippi 2:31
Billy Simmons / Curley Williams
16 I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town 2:44
Lew Brown / Harry Von Tilzer
17 Half a Photograph 2:50
Bob Russell / Hal Stanley
18 Comes Along a Love 2:13
Al Sherman
19 Bonaparte's Retreat  2:37
Pee Wee King / Redd Stewart
20 Wheel of Fortune 3:09
Bennie Benjamin / George David Weiss
21 The Rock and Roll Waltz 2:49
Shorty Allen / Dick Ware
22 Hoop-Dee-Doo 2:14
Milton Delugg / Frank Loesser
23 Allez-Vous En (Go Away) 2:29
Cole Porter
24 Foolin' Around 2:20
Harlan Howard / Buck Owens

JERI SOUTHERN - ... Meets Cole Porter + ... At The Crescendo (1999) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Two of jazz vocalist Jeri Southern's full-length LPs are collected here on this two-fer CD release by EMI.
Tracklist :
... Meets Cole Porter (1959)
1     Don't Look at Me That Way 2:59
Cole Porter
2     Get Out of Town 3:04
Cole Porter
3     Looking at You 2:31
Cole Porter
4     It's All Right With Me 4:45
Cole Porter
5     Let's Fly Away 2:31
Cole Porter
6     Why Shouldn't I? 2:30
Cole Porter
7     You're the Top 2:49
Cole Porter
8     After You 2:50
Cole Porter
9     Which? 2:41
Cole Porter
10     I Concentrate on You 3:49
Cole Porter
11     It's Bad for Me 2:13
Cole Porter
12     Weren't We Fools? 2:49
Cole Porter
... At The Crescendo (1960)
13     I Thought of You Last Night 2:40
Ralph Freed
14     I Get a Kick Out of You 3:50
Cole Porter
15     Dancing on the Ceiling 3:48
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
16     Blame It on My Youth 3:32
Edward Heyman / Oscar Levant
17     Remind Me 4:30
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
18     You Better Go Now 2:39
Irvin Graham / Bix Reichner
19     I'm Just a Woman 3:30
Gail Allen   
20     Something I Dreamed Last Night 4:47
Sammy Fain / Herbert Magidson / Jack Yellen
21     Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:05
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
22     When I Fall in Love 3:20
Edward Heyman / Victor Young

NANCY WILSON - Broadway My Way + Hollywood My Way (2001) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

The combination of these Nancy Wilson albums, Hollywood: My Way and Broadway: My Way, provide pleasant, easy listening interpretations of Broadway and Hollywood standards. These 24 tracks -- including "Tonight" from West Side Story, "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses -- hold up exceptionally well. The LPs were originally released on Capitol Records in 1963 and 1964, and had been out of print until EMI reissued them on a compact disc in 2001. by Al Campbell
Tracklist :
Broadway - My Way (1963)
1     A Lot of Livin' to Do 2:08
Lee Adams / Charles Strouse
2     You Can Have Him 4:44
Irving Berlin
3     Tonight 2:34
Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim
4     Make Someone Happy 3:18
Betty Comden / Adolph Green / Jule Styne
5     I Believe in You " 2:04
Frank Loesser
6     As Long as He Needs Me 2:30
Lionel Bart
7     Getting to Know You 2:35
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
8     My Ship 3:14
Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill
9     The Sweetest Sounds 2:05
Richard Rodgers
10     Joey, Joey, Joey 3:56
Frank Loesser
11     Loads of Love 2:12
Richard Rodgers
12     I'll Know 2:30
Frank Loesser
Hollywood - My Way (1963)
13     My Shining Hour 1:57
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
14     Days of Wine and Roses 3:26
Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer
15     Moon River 2:07
Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer
16     Secret Love 3:04
Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster
17     Dearly Beloved 2:13
Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer
18     I'll Never Stop Loving You 2:38
Nicholas Brodszky / Sammy Cahn
19     When Did You Leave Heaven? 2:56
Walter Bullock / Richard A. Whiting
20     Almost in Your Arms 2:30
Ray Evans / Jay Livingston
21     Wild Is the Wind 2:50
Dimitri Tiomkin / Ned Washington
22     The Second Time Around 2:53
Sammy Cahn / James Van Heusen
23     Did I Remember 3:44
Harold Adamson / Walter Donaldson
24     You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To 2:34
Cole Porter
Credits :
Conductor, Arranged By - Jimmy Jones
Vocals - Nancy Wilson

PEGGY LEE – A Natural Woman + Is That All There Is? (2003) FLAC (tracks), lossless

The compilers of British EMI's extensive "two on one" reissue series have made some questionable choices in combining two albums originally issued on LP into a single CD, but it's hard to second guess this one, which contains the two albums Peggy Lee released in 1969, A Natural Woman and Is That All There Is? Not only are the collections chronologically sequential, but it sounds like the second one employs tracks recorded for the first one. By the late ‘60s, Lee, like many other veteran pop singers, was attempting to keep current and keep selling records by incorporating current trends in pop/rock into her music. A Natural Woman alternates efforts by two prominent Los Angeles session musicians serving as arranger/conductors, pianist Mike Melvoin and trumpeter Bobby Bryant. This is one of those albums that sounds like these guys (and perhaps Lee, too) came up with the set list by listening to their AM radios, tuned to the local Top 40 station, on the freeway on their way to the session. They hear, say, Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People," and Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel," and, by the time they pull into the parking lot, they've got the gist of the arrangement down and proceed to re-create it, more or less, with their fellow session pros, as Lee gamely approximates the hit vocals. When they do use a vintage piece of material, such as "(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings," or come up with an original ("Lean on Me"), they are still keeping in mind what they heard on the radio, so that the former sounds like watered-down Motown and the latter has the modified R&B funkiness of Frank Sinatra's "That's Life."

The atypical last song on A Natural Woman leads right into Is That All There Is? It's Randy Newman's introspective ballad "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today," and since Newman arranged and conducted Lee's surprise comeback hit with Leiber & Stoller's European-style art song "Is That All There Is?" (inspired by a Thomas Mann short story), and that song leads off the second LP, the mood stays constant. And that mood continues with the next track, "Love Story," another Newman composition, even if Lee, the disillusionment of "Is That All There Is?" notwithstanding, cannot bring herself to sing Newman's fatalistic final couplet, "We'll play checkers all day/Until we pass away." Instead, she substitutes "We'll play checkers in the sun/Playing checkers can be fun." Unfortunately, Is That All There Is? doesn't turn out to be a complete album of similar material. In fact, it is actually a cobbled-together rush job that was assembled on the fly to have an LP in the record racks while "Is That All There Is?," which had been released as a one-off single, was still in the charts. Capitol Records thought nothing of recycling previously released tracks including Lee's 1963 hit "I'm a Woman" (also written by Leiber & Stoller) to pad the collection out to LP length. Toward the end, there are some good songs and arrangements in the art song style of "Is That All There Is?," however, notably Newman's "Linda," which has had its gender switched and is called "Johnny (Linda)." But the Is That All There Is? LP remains a patchwork Peggy Lee album, even suitably paired with A Natural Woman. William Ruhlmann 
Tracklist :
1 (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings 2:55
Jean Marie Blanvillain / Henri Herpin / Harold Rome
2 Don't Explain 4:03
Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog, Jr.
3 Can I Change My Mind? 2:53
4 Lean on Me 2:48
Peggy Lee / Mundell Lowe / Mike Melvoin
5 (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay 2:40
Steve Cropper / Otis Redding
6 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 3:04
Gerry Goffin / Carole King / Jerry Wexler
7 Everyday People 2:50
Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart
8 Please Send Me Someone to Love   4:11
Percy Mayfield
9 Spinning Wheel 2:40
David Clayton-Thomas
10 Living Is Dying Without You 3:30
Joel Hirschhorn / Al Kasha
11 I Think It's Gonna Rain Today 3:18
Randy Newman
12 Is That All There Is? 4:22
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
13 Love Story 3:31
Randy Newman
14 Me and My Shadow 3:07
Dave Dreyer / Al Jolson / Billy Rose
15 Sing a Rainbow 2:31
Arthur Hamilton
16 My Old Flame 4:30
Sam Coslow / Arthur Johnston
17 I'm a Woman 2:10
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
18 Somethin' Stupid 2:35
C. Carson Parks
19 Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show 3:08
Neil Diamond
20 Something 3:11
George Harrison
21 Whistle for Happiness 2:12
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
22 Johnny (Linda) 2:52
Randy Newman
23 I Can Hear the Music 1:59
Jeff Barry / Ellie Greenwich / Phil Spector
24 Don't Smoke in Bed 3:12
Willard Robison
25 You Must Have a Beautiful Baby 1:50
Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren