Dick Powell's attractive light lyric tenor voice wooed film audiences through the depression years of the 1930s and his well-groomed debonair charm served him well through so many Warner Bros. Musicals. This album comprises two dozen songs many of them very familiar and very welcome: 'By a Waterfall'; 'Wonder Bar'; 'I'll String Along With You'; and 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm' to name but a few. Also included are three famous film soundtrack recordings: 'Young and Healthy'; 'I Only Have Eyes for You' and 'You Must Have been a Beautiful Baby' Beginning as a banjo player and vocalist with bands in Kentucky, Indiana and Chicago, Powell went on to Hollywood where his first of 60 films, of which 30 were musicals, was Blessed Event (Warner, 1932). But he really made his mark in the epoch-making, twice Oscar-nominated Forty-Second Street. He went on to appear in numerous Busby Berkeley musicals that are now classics. In 1944 he began another successful career as a dramatic actor playing Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlow in Murder My Sweet; and later, in 1952, founded Four Star Playhouse and went on to direct and produce many successful plays and dramas. He was married to the petite husky-voiced film actress, June Allyson from 1945 until his death in 1963. Reviewer Ian lace	Reviewer Ian lace Reviews from previous months Reviews carry sales links but you can also purchase from:
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