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In 1955, Capitol Records signed Dick Haymes and attempted to do for him what it had done for Frank Sinatra a few years earlier, resurrect his career. Due to a combination of personal and business problems, Haymes had fallen far from his mid-'40s peak, when he was a major rival to Sinatra among the new crop of solo singers emerging from the big bands. The Capitol sojourn led to 12 recording sessions between December 20, 1955, and April 4, 1957, that produced two LPs, Rain or Shine and Moondreams, and a few singles, only one of which, "Two Different Worlds," managed a brief stay in the charts. The recordings were out of print for decades, but were championed by some critics, making this thorough two-CD set, compiled by Ken Barnes, a welcome reissue. It reveals that, if the recordings are not nearly as impressive as Haymes' revisionist supporters have claimed, they are nevertheless creditable. It may be that the tendency to overrate them comes from that very competence; given Haymes' notorious troubles of the '50s, from reported alcoholism to bizarre legal battles and his stormy, tabloid-splashed marriage to Rita Hayworth, it's amazing that he sounds as unruffled as he does in recording sessions that began only eight days after his divorce from Hayworth became final. Actually, it might have helped if more of the angst of his recent experiences had leaked into the performances. The approach on the two LPs (which occupy the first 12 tracks of each CD) was the same: to choose a collection of vintage copyrights almost entirely from the '30s and '40s, many of them previously recorded by Haymes ("It Might as Well Be Spring," "You'll Never Know," "Little White Lies," etc.) and set them to '50s-style arrangements mixing lush orchestral charts with jazzy small-band settings, all put together by Haymes' musical director, Ian Bernard. That sounds like the same formula employed for Sinatra's Capitol work, but the big difference comes in the singing. Sinatra sounded very different on Capitol in the '50s from the way he had sounded on Columbia Records in the '40s -- grittier, darker, older, more emphatic. Haymes tries most of the time to sound much as he did in the '40s, which means that the flaw in these performances is the same one that dogged his career in every aspect. Whether singing or acting, he always relied on a smooth, polished delivery, a surface effect, to get across. As an actor, he was a wooden, humorless pretty boy, which is why he never really made it in the movies. As a singer, he was a smooth, bland, uninvolved deliverer of the lyrics, relying on his rich timbre to please his listeners. That worked beautifully in the '40s when it was the dominant style, but by the mid-'50s Sinatra had taught audiences to expect more. Haymes' apologists cite the usual reasons for his failure to make a Sinatra-like comeback, including lack of promotion and his personal demons. But there were musical reasons as well, and they are heard here. Bernard provides appropriate '50s backings, but Haymes continues to sing as though he's still in the '40s. By 2006, a later generation might be more willing to just luxuriate in the beauty of his tone, but it's really no surprise that no one was interested 50 years earlier. (Barnes has dug up some interesting, if minor, unreleased material, including a session with Jackie Gleason as bandleader that finds Haymes trying to navigate a Gleason adaptation of the "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.)
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Hammerstein II , ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Harry Warren, Composer - Mack Gordon, Author - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Ray Noble, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Harry Warren, Composer - Mack Gordon, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Howard Dietz, Composer - Arthur Schwartz, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Ned Washington, Composer - HOAGY CARMICHAEL, Composer - Joe Mondragon, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - JIMMY ROWLES, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Alvin Stoller, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Walter Donaldson, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Billy May, Conductor - BOB HAYMES, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist
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Billy May, Conductor - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - E.R. White, Composer - Maxwell Wolfson, Composer
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Billy May, Conductor - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Dolores Vicki Silvers, Composer
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Al Frisch, Composer - Sid Wayne, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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BOB HAYMES, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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BOB HAYMES, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Leon Pober, Composer - Paul Francis Webster, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Leon Pober, Composer - Paul Francis Webster, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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DISQUE 2
Leo Robin, Composer - Ralph Rainger, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1957 Capitol Records
Gene DePaul, Composer - Don Raye, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Johnny Burke, Composer - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Johnny Mercer, Composer - HOAGY CARMICHAEL, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Irving Berlin, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Robert Haggart, Composer - Johnny Burke, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
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Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1957 Capitol Records
Arthur Schwartz, Composer - E.Y. HARBURG, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1957 Capitol Records
E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1957 Capitol Records
Johnny Burke, Author - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Ted Koehler, ComposerLyricist - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Victor Young, Composer - Edward Heyman, Author - Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Ian Bernard, Conductor
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records
Gordon Jenkins, Composer, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Dick Haymes, MainArtist
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records, LLC
Gordon Jenkins, Composer, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Dick Haymes, MainArtist
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1956 Capitol Records, LLC
Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Jackie Gleason, Composer - Jackie Gleason & His Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Capitol Records, LLC
Dick Haymes, MainArtist - Jackie Gleason, Composer - Jackie Gleason & His Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Capitol Records, LLC
Chronique
In 1955, Capitol Records signed Dick Haymes and attempted to do for him what it had done for Frank Sinatra a few years earlier, resurrect his career. Due to a combination of personal and business problems, Haymes had fallen far from his mid-'40s peak, when he was a major rival to Sinatra among the new crop of solo singers emerging from the big bands. The Capitol sojourn led to 12 recording sessions between December 20, 1955, and April 4, 1957, that produced two LPs, Rain or Shine and Moondreams, and a few singles, only one of which, "Two Different Worlds," managed a brief stay in the charts. The recordings were out of print for decades, but were championed by some critics, making this thorough two-CD set, compiled by Ken Barnes, a welcome reissue. It reveals that, if the recordings are not nearly as impressive as Haymes' revisionist supporters have claimed, they are nevertheless creditable. It may be that the tendency to overrate them comes from that very competence; given Haymes' notorious troubles of the '50s, from reported alcoholism to bizarre legal battles and his stormy, tabloid-splashed marriage to Rita Hayworth, it's amazing that he sounds as unruffled as he does in recording sessions that began only eight days after his divorce from Hayworth became final. Actually, it might have helped if more of the angst of his recent experiences had leaked into the performances. The approach on the two LPs (which occupy the first 12 tracks of each CD) was the same: to choose a collection of vintage copyrights almost entirely from the '30s and '40s, many of them previously recorded by Haymes ("It Might as Well Be Spring," "You'll Never Know," "Little White Lies," etc.) and set them to '50s-style arrangements mixing lush orchestral charts with jazzy small-band settings, all put together by Haymes' musical director, Ian Bernard. That sounds like the same formula employed for Sinatra's Capitol work, but the big difference comes in the singing. Sinatra sounded very different on Capitol in the '50s from the way he had sounded on Columbia Records in the '40s -- grittier, darker, older, more emphatic. Haymes tries most of the time to sound much as he did in the '40s, which means that the flaw in these performances is the same one that dogged his career in every aspect. Whether singing or acting, he always relied on a smooth, polished delivery, a surface effect, to get across. As an actor, he was a wooden, humorless pretty boy, which is why he never really made it in the movies. As a singer, he was a smooth, bland, uninvolved deliverer of the lyrics, relying on his rich timbre to please his listeners. That worked beautifully in the '40s when it was the dominant style, but by the mid-'50s Sinatra had taught audiences to expect more. Haymes' apologists cite the usual reasons for his failure to make a Sinatra-like comeback, including lack of promotion and his personal demons. But there were musical reasons as well, and they are heard here. Bernard provides appropriate '50s backings, but Haymes continues to sing as though he's still in the '40s. By 2006, a later generation might be more willing to just luxuriate in the beauty of his tone, but it's really no surprise that no one was interested 50 years earlier. (Barnes has dug up some interesting, if minor, unreleased material, including a session with Jackie Gleason as bandleader that finds Haymes trying to navigate a Gleason adaptation of the "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.)
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
À propos
- 2 disque(s) - 36 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 01:56:30
- Artistes principaux : Dick Haymes
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : EMI Gold
- Genre : Jazz
© 2006 EMI Records Ltd This Compilation ℗ 2006 EMI Records Ltd
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