Kay Starr - Kay Starr - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Kay StarrEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-07-22
Music Label: Curb
Soundtracks:
- Side By Side
- Wheel Of Fortune
- Bonaparte's Retreat
- If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
- Comes-A-Long-A-Love
- So Tired
- Allez-Vous-En
- The Man Upstairs
- It's The Talk Of The Town
- On A Slow Boat To China
- I'll Never Be Free
- Lazy River
Music reviews of Kay Starr - Greatest Hits
Music Review: Before Streisand there was KAY STARR!
Rating: 5 Stars
What a joy to be able to rediscover one of the 1950s most popular female singers: Kay Starr, the Native American singer who deftly handled emotional ballads as well as zippy pop songs and jazz. Fans of "emoting" singers like Barbra Streisand who've never heard or heard of Kay Starr will fall in love with her if they listen to even just a FEW of the tracks on this wonderful CD. Her versatility and artistry is a joy to behold. The first number is her famous rendition of Side By Side, where she does a duet with herself in a show-stopping arrangement that builds until the final joyous note. Then there's her innovative song Wheel of Fortune, which blended pop with country. In The Man Upstairs she does another faced-paced duet with herself. But you still can't pigeon-hole her talent since the lyrics, phrasing and arrangement of If You Love Me (Really Love Me) will haunt you for hours. So will It's The Talk of the Town. I've heard others sing this (and I have played it on the piano and sung it myself) but never have the sad lyrics of a jilted lover sounded so meaningful and compelling. Like brassy, rousing Big Band swing (with a late 50s, early 60s sound)? On A Slow Boat To China (outstanding) and Lazy River. Even a country song with Tennesee Ernie Ford. What's amazing is not only Starr's range and versatility but the way she extracts the meaning in every single lyric. There's raw emotion behind every word and note. In his superb book Music Hound Lounge, Steve Knopper writes that had Starr "not been a pop crooner who emulated Jo Stafford and Margaret Whiting, she might have made it as a clear-voiced blues belter." He notes that even when she sang standards she sang them "deep and warm, like a more debutante-ish Patsy Cline or a less-salacious Bessie Smith." The bottom line: she was innovative, versatile and daring in her song selection -- and had a "bring-the-house-down" style hard to find these days. This collection -- with generally great orchestral arrangements -- has some of her best.
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Kay Starr - Greatest Hits (View amazon detail page) ASIN: B000000CY8 Binding: Audio CD Artist: Starr, Kay UPC: 071518774042, 715187740426Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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