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Kitty Kallen - Kitty Kallen Story (2022)

Kitty Kallen - Kitty Kallen Story (2022)

BAND/ARTIST: Kitty Kallen

  • Title: Kitty Kallen Story
  • Year Of Release: 1992 / 2022
  • Label: Legacy Recordings
  • Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Swing, Pop
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 1:35:48
  • Total Size: 382 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Star Eyes (02:26)
2. It's Been a Long, Long Time (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:26)
3. If Someone Had Told Me (02:53)
4. I'll Walk Alone (02:45)
5. Misty (02:45)
6. It Amazes Me (04:04)
7. My Coloring Book (03:22)
8. I'll Buy That Dream (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:24)
9. Because You're Mine (02:39)
10. If I Give My Heart to You (Single Version) (02:46)
11. I'm Takin' My Time With You (03:02)
12. I Wanna Hat With Cherries (02:57)
13. Two Blind Loves (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (02:44)
14. Hawaii Sang Me To Sleep (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (02:58)
15. I'll Remember (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (03:05)
16. At Least You Could Say Hello (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (03:17)
17. A Table In a Corner (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (03:12)
18. Stop Kicking My Heart Around (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (03:06)
19. So Many Times (with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra) (02:52)
20. I'm Beginning To See The Light (with Harry James and His Orchestra) [Alternate Take] (03:14)
21. I'm Beginning To See The Light (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:15)
22. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:19)
23. I Wish I Knew (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:25)
24. I Don't Care Who Knows It (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:05)
25. 11:60 P.M. (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (02:45)
26. Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk) [with Harry James and His Orchestra] (02:29)
27. Oh, Brother! (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:17)
28. It's Been a Long, Long Time (with Harry James and His Orchestra) [Alternate Take] (03:17)
29. The Wonder Of You (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:14)
30. Waitin' For the Train To Come In (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:09)
31. Baby, What You Do To Me (with Harry James and His Orchestra) (03:22)

Kitty Kallen was a band singer, and later a soloist, who lit up bandstands with a handful of top leaders during the '40s. She's remembered for three reasons: big-band fans know that she was the one who replaced Helen O'Connell in the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra in 1943, also that she sang the vocal chorus on a pair of Harry James hits, "I'm Beginning to See the Light" and "It's Been a Long, Long Time," and virtually everyone with a radio in 1954 knew that she recorded the year's most popular song, "Little Things Mean a Lot." Her career lasted more than 20 years, but it was sporadic at best, with the major successes listed above virtually the only popularity she achieved.

Born in Philadelphia in 1922, she was a gifted mimic who won talent shows and also appeared on children's radio shows by the mid-'30s. Kallen was still a teenager when she began singing with bands (including Jan Savitt and Artie Shaw), and she earned her first full-time role in 1940 with Jack Teagarden's Orchestra. Two years later, she joined Tommy Dorsey, and appeared on several hits, including "Besame Mucho" and "Star Eyes" (plus a 1943 film, I Dood It). One year later, she had jumped ship again, this time to the Harry James band, where she struck gold again with a pair of dreamy Hit Parade toppers, "I'm Beginning to See the Light" and "It's Been a Long, Long Time." Two additional hits followed -- "I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" and "I'll Buy That Dream" -- both of which were in the same mold as her previous features.

After the end of World War II, during the late '40s, Kallen sang on several radio programs, appeared as a solo act in clubs nationwide, and recorded for labels including Musicraft and Signature. Nothing clicked in a big way until 1953, when a contract with Decca paid dividends with a pair of million-sellers, "Little Things Mean a Lot" (her signature song) and "In the Chapel in the Moonlight." Kallen proved popular on television, although by the mid-'50s, she began to be swept aside by rock-oriented pop music. She made brief comebacks in 1959 with Columbia and 1962 with RCA, but 1963 was the last year for her on the pop charts, with "My Coloring Book." ~ John Bush


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  • mufty77
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