1. Don’t Ever Change
2. Easy Street
3. Go Fly a Kite
4. You Are the One
5. I Can’t Resist You
6. Walk a Little, Talk a Little
7. I’d Know You Anywhere
8. I Love You More, More Every Day
9. Wait’ll I Get My Sunshine in the Moonlight
10. Night and Day
11. My Melancholy Baby
12. Kiss the Boys Goodbye
13. One More Dream
14. I Walk with Music
15. Love Me a Little
16. I’ll Never Smile Again
17. June is Bustin’ out All Over
18. Skylark
19. Too Beautiful to Last
20. Watching the Clock
21. Wish You Were Waiting for Me
22. I Can’t Get Started
23. Melancholy Mood
24. Mother Do Not Scold Me
25. Ya Lu-Blu
26. You’re the Moment of a Lifetime
Ginny
Simms will be an unfamiliar name to many people
but she was a popular singer from the 1930s
into the fifties, and appeared in such Hollywood
movies as Broadway Rhythm (1943) and
Night and Day (1946). According to
the sleeve-note, she was born near San Antonio,
Texas in 1911 (other sources say 1915) and
became a band vocalist in 1932, moving on
to Kay Kyser’s orchestra from 1934 to 1941,
after which she went solo. Kay Kyser’s band
was very popular in the 1930s, making several
films as well as the weekly radio programme
"Kollege of Musical Knowledge".
Ginny
had a sweet, clear voice and, although she
was hardly a jazz singer, she performed with
appealing sincerity. She delivers standards
like My Melancholy Baby and I’ll
Never Smile Again with a warm tone and
audible lyrics. The transfers provide reasonable
recorded sound. The recordings on the album
were made between 1939 to 1947 and include
a fair share of dated numbers like Mother
Do Not Scold Me and Wait’ll I Get My
Sunshine in the Moonlight. But there are
also opportunities to discover neglected songs
like I’d Know You Anywhere and I
Walk with Music (both with lyrics by Johnny
Mercer). It is good to be alerted to Ginny’s
talents through the 26 generous tracks on
this CD.
Tony
Augarde
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