Song From Moulin Rouge

Felicia Sanders - Song From Moulin Rouge

Song From Moulin Rouge
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Artist: Felicia Sanders
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-07-10
Music Label: Sepia Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. The Song From Moulin Rouge
  2. I May Not Remember Your Name
  3. How Did He Look
  4. Embrasse
  5. Melancolie
  6. Ma Curly Headed Babby
  7. Love Affair
  8. Jole John
  9. My Love Belongs To You
  10. How Long has This Been Going On!
  11. Blue Star
  12. My Love's A Gentle Man
  13. All At Once
  14. Wanting And Loving
  15. Surrener To Me
  16. This Is Real
  17. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  18. Speaking Of Love
  19. If I Love Again
  20. It Might As Well Be Spring
  21. I Wanna Be Loved
  22. Baby - Did You Hear?
  23. Something Cool
  24. My Funny Valentine
  25. You Make Me Feel So Young
  26. (Ah, The Apple Trees) When The World Was Young
  27. Old Devil Moon
  28. The Song Form Moulin Rouge

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Music Review: Good, but unrecognized talent
Rating: 4 Stars

This album was produced by the same firm that also put together a CD of Toni Arden recordings which I have previously reviewed. And Felicia Sanders and Toni Arden had a few things in common: both recorded for Columbia in the early to mid '50s, both had good voices, and both are nowhere nearly as well recognized for their singing talent as I think they should be. And yet, in a way, they were opposites: Toni Arden's recordings suffered because they had to compete with other, better-known singers doing the same songs, and those singers' versions grabbed the high chart positions, while Felicia Sanders made records mostly of obscure songs which nobody has heard of before or since. Strangely, both decisions must have been made by the same people, the Columbia Records A&R staff under Mitch Miller. Why this was done, who can tell?

This CD consists of two separate parts; the first 16 tracks constitute a "Best of Felicia Sanders" collection, while the last 12 are a reissue of an LP she did, simulating a nightclub session, complete with audience applause.

In the first 16-track section, she starts with the song which was her only really big hit, but which gained her very little financial satisfaction or recognition, because it was marketed (in the way songs always were in the Big Band era, but not usually in 1953, when it was done!) under the name of the orchestra leader, Percy Faith, with vocalist Sanders' name listed in smaller-type letters afterwards. This song, "The Song from Moulin Rouge," was a #1 hit for many weeks, and should have ensured Felicia Sanders' stardom, except that she never got the credit she deserved. The first 16 tracks also include the only other song she recorded to crack the top 30, "Blue Star," whose melody was the theme of a popular TV program, "Medic," but with words written afterwards for her vocal performance. The remaining 14 tracks of this part are all obscure songs, though many of them sound quite pleasant. They are worth listening to, even if you'll likely not recognize any of them.

The second part of the CD is, as stated earlier, a reissue of an LP that attempted to reconstruct a night-club session, the part of Sanders' career that brought her greater success. This part includes, in contrast to the first part, many well-known songs and demonstrates her flexibility very well. It is a pleasure to listen to her versions of these songs, and one wonders whether she'd have done better if she'd been allowed to record old standards like these instead of the obscure songs she did. (One wishes, though, that they'd included one song she introduced in her night-club act which became much more famous, in versions by other singers, later on, a song called "In Other Words" which later became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon.") This section concludes with a recording of the same song that started the first section, her biggest hit, "The Song from Moulin Rouge," in a quite differently performed version.

I almost gave this CD 5 stars; it is really a nice one. But in the end I decided it only deserved 4, because it could have been better. Still, if you like '50s pop, you ought to try this CD.
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