Tracks: 1. FREDERICA "Why did you kiss my heart awake" (3:30)
2. THE OPERA BALL " A Chambre Separee" (3:38)
3. THE CONTRABANDISTA "Only the night wind sighs alone" (3:03)
4. THE DANCING YEARS " Waltz Of My Heart" (3:04)
5. WUTHERING HEIGHTS "I Belong To The Earth" (4:29)
6. LA BELLE VIVETTE, (BELLE HELENE) "My traitor heart?" (3:58)
7. WUTHERING HEIGHTS "The Say He's A Gypsy" (3:23)
8. SPRING IS HERE "With A Song In My Heart" (3:50)
Tracks: 1. With A Song In My Heart
2. When You're Away
3. Lover
4. Danny Boy
5. Love Is Where You Find It
6. One Night Of Love
7. Gershwin In Hollywood - Medley: Love Walked In - The Man I Love - Love Is Here To Stay
8. Beyond The Blue Horizon
9. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
10. Yesterdays
11. Jealousy
12. Long Ago (And Far Away)
13. One Kiss
14. So In Love
15. Smilin' Through
Posted 2008-02-13 13:58:40: Amazon.com: The soprano Lesley Garrett joins her regular TV partners, the BBC Concert Orchestra for this razzle-dazzle collection of big hits from the golden age of Tinseltown. The 15 tracks, including a Gershwin medley, celebrate those would-be operatic sopranos who traded their art on screen instead of live on the stage. The well-researched booklet lists them, from Grace Moore to Deanna Durbin. The disc opens with Rodgers and Hart's breezy "With a Song in My Heart", which evokes Sunday lunchtime in British households 30 years ago as it was the theme tune for Radio 2's Family Favourites. It is loud, brassy, bombastic and self-satisfied just like Hollywood itself. This remains the character of the entire disc, although Jerome Kern's and Otto Harbach's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the traditional Irish song "Danny Boy" deliver a more reflective mood. Garrett sings everything with her shrill enthusiasm and optimistic tone although she sometimes lets her control sag and phrase-ends disappear. She is deliciously catty in Jacob Gade's "Jealousy", seductively sultry in Cole Porter's "So in Love" and gives extra value in Rodgers and Hart's "Lover", where she double-tracks herself. The arrangements are by Paul Bateman, who also conducts. -- Rick Jones
