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Everyone seems to have forgotten that rock & roll wasn't doing so hot with white audiences at the tail end of the 1950s until the Beatles hit the scene and had everyone going electric again. Instead of rockabilly, folk music and Dixieland jazz were huge in 1959 and young audiences were getting into old-time songs that their parents and grandparents knew. Swing Me an Old Song was Julie London's Dixieland-spiced folk revival effort. If it doesn't actually play to her strengths to be cast as a sexed-up version of Burl Ives, it takes some kind of real talent to be able to coo such hoary chestnuts as "Camptown Races" and "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat" without embarrassing yourself too much. Thankfully, the song selection on most of the album is better than these two egregious examples of stale singalongs that should never have made it outside of summer camp. Tracks like "Cuddle up a Little Closer" and "Darktown Strutters Ball" fit London like a satin glove, as does her downbeat take on "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (though she would cut an even better version of this on her 1966 release For the Night People). During the same year as Swing Me an Old Song, London also cut the cool jazz album Julie...at Home (which may just be her single finest work) and Your Number Please..., a swank orchestral set of standards. People often mention Julie London's limited vocal range, but it's surprising how far that her talent could stretch.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
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Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Karl Hoschna, Composer - Otto Harbach, Author - Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Charles Harris, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Stanley Murphy, Author - Henry Marshall, Composer
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Stephen Collins Foster, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Collins Foster, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Shelton Brooks, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Gene Austin, ComposerLyricist - Roy Bergere, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
William Jerome, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - James V. Monaco, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Harry Carroll, Composer - Harold Atteridge, Author
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Jack Sheldon, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Julie London, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Si Waronker, Producer - JIMMY ROWLES, Conductor, Piano, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Al Viola, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Keep, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Hughie Cannon, ComposerLyricist - Don Gallese, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, Producer - Julian Robledo, Composer - Dorothy Terriss, Author
(C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1959 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Everyone seems to have forgotten that rock & roll wasn't doing so hot with white audiences at the tail end of the 1950s until the Beatles hit the scene and had everyone going electric again. Instead of rockabilly, folk music and Dixieland jazz were huge in 1959 and young audiences were getting into old-time songs that their parents and grandparents knew. Swing Me an Old Song was Julie London's Dixieland-spiced folk revival effort. If it doesn't actually play to her strengths to be cast as a sexed-up version of Burl Ives, it takes some kind of real talent to be able to coo such hoary chestnuts as "Camptown Races" and "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat" without embarrassing yourself too much. Thankfully, the song selection on most of the album is better than these two egregious examples of stale singalongs that should never have made it outside of summer camp. Tracks like "Cuddle up a Little Closer" and "Darktown Strutters Ball" fit London like a satin glove, as does her downbeat take on "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (though she would cut an even better version of this on her 1966 release For the Night People). During the same year as Swing Me an Old Song, London also cut the cool jazz album Julie...at Home (which may just be her single finest work) and Your Number Please..., a swank orchestral set of standards. People often mention Julie London's limited vocal range, but it's surprising how far that her talent could stretch.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:31:59
- Main artists: Julie London
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2011 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2011 Capitol Records, LLC
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