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And the Angel Sings

by: Martha Tilton

Release Date June 04, 2007
This collection is one of several released since Martha Tilton's death in December last year, aged ninety-one. It's a comprehensive overview of her entire career which began as band singer with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, moving on to the popular Benny Goodman Orchestra two years later where her popular vocals on LOCH LOMOND and BEI MIR BIST DU SCHOEN in 1937 paved the way to her biggest hit and signature song AND THE ANGELS SING two years later. These hits did much to establish her individuality beyond merely adding a touch of glamour to the band-stand in contrast to the male-dominated musicians. Labeled the "Liltin' Miss Tilton" Martha certainly held her own against the breezy Goodman style and the other attractive songbirds that performed with ... Read More:

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Liltin'

by: Martha Tilton

Release Date June 04, 2007
Martha Tilton commenced her high-profile big-band singing career with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, moving two years later to the Benny Goodman Orchestra with whom she made a few recordings. However, this double-disc of forty-nine tracks dedicated to the singer, trawls broadcast material with the advantage of hearing many popular songs Martha never committed to shellac with Benny and held together with a degree of spontaneity only possible via radio performance even though quick fades ensure the applause does not linger too long. At the time, all-male big band musicians needed to enlist the services of a glamorous girl singer in order to add an element of attraction to the band-stand and as such Martha had to adhere to arrangements which often favoured the ... Read More:

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The Coral Treasures

by: Martha Tilton

Release Date July 02, 2007
Martha Tilton commenced her high-profile big-band singing career with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, moving two years later to the Benny Goodman Orchestra with whom she made a few recordings. However, this double-disc of forty-nine tracks dedicated to the singer, trawls broadcast material with the advantage of hearing many popular songs Martha never committed to shellac with Benny and held together with a degree of spontaneity only possible via radio performance even though quick fades ensure the applause does not linger too long. At the time, all-male big band musicians needed to enlist the services of a glamorous girl singer in order to add an element of attraction to the band-stand and as such Martha had to adhere to arrangements which often favoured the ... Read More:

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Music and Songs of Rodgers & Hart

from: Happy Days

Release Date September 01, 1994
Martha Tilton commenced her high-profile big-band singing career with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, moving two years later to the Benny Goodman Orchestra with whom she made a few recordings. However, this double-disc of forty-nine tracks dedicated to the singer, trawls broadcast material with the advantage of hearing many popular songs Martha never committed to shellac with Benny and held together with a degree of spontaneity only possible via radio performance even though quick fades ensure the applause does not linger too long. At the time, all-male big band musicians needed to enlist the services of a glamorous girl singer in order to add an element of attraction to the band-stand and as such Martha had to adhere to arrangements which often favoured the ... Read More:

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Liltin Miss Tilton - Complete Capitol Sessions

by: Martha Tilton

Release Date March 07, 2001
Martha was an exceptionally talented singer of the 1940's who never achieved what her talent deserved. Unfortunately for her (but fortunately for us), there were a lot of other talented ladies around at the same time - Jo Stafford, Doris Day, Maggie Whiting and Dinah Shore among them - equally capable of singing the same songs.

Martha was more beautiful than any of them, and if the television age had begun then, that might have helped her. As it was, Martha still had a reasonably successful career without ever reaching the top rank. This collection contains everything she recorded for Capitol, which was the only label on which she was successful as a solo singer. Included here are her American top ten hits (I'll walk alone, I should care, ... Read More:

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Great Ladies

by: Martha Tilton, Peggy Lee, Chris Connor, June Christy

Release Date January 29, 2002
Martha was an exceptionally talented singer of the 1940's who never achieved what her talent deserved. Unfortunately for her (but fortunately for us), there were a lot of other talented ladies around at the same time - Jo Stafford, Doris Day, Maggie Whiting and Dinah Shore among them - equally capable of singing the same songs.

Martha was more beautiful than any of them, and if the television age had begun then, that might have helped her. As it was, Martha still had a reasonably successful career without ever reaching the top rank. This collection contains everything she recorded for Capitol, which was the only label on which she was successful as a solo singer. Included here are her American top ten hits (I'll walk alone, I should care, ... Read More:

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On Your Toes & Pal Joey

by: Portia Nelson, Jack Cassidy, Martha Tilton, June Hutton, Marilyn Maxwell

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A combination of two excellent Rodgers and Hart scores recreated in the studio brings the exquisite vocal purity of Portia Nelson to the fore in the 1952 recording of ON YOUR TOES with sole versions of GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY, QUIET NIGHT and the title number whilst she shares IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE and THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL with newcomer Jack Cassidy. Other singers fill out the remaining songs written to fit the show's back-stage milieu with the monumental dance number, SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE at its heart and chorus and orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel.

The 1957-recorded PAL JOEY is less theatrical in flavour and nearer in spirit to the same-year Columbia movie release, with the participation of popular vocalists who are given more free-wheeling ... Read More:

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Bei Mir Bist Du Shon

by: Martha Tilton & Benny Goodman

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A combination of two excellent Rodgers and Hart scores recreated in the studio brings the exquisite vocal purity of Portia Nelson to the fore in the 1952 recording of ON YOUR TOES with sole versions of GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY, QUIET NIGHT and the title number whilst she shares IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE and THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL with newcomer Jack Cassidy. Other singers fill out the remaining songs written to fit the show's back-stage milieu with the monumental dance number, SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE at its heart and chorus and orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel.

The 1957-recorded PAL JOEY is less theatrical in flavour and nearer in spirit to the same-year Columbia movie release, with the participation of popular vocalists who are given more free-wheeling ... Read More:

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The Complete Standard Transcriptions

by: Martha Tilton

Release Date March 28, 2000
A combination of two excellent Rodgers and Hart scores recreated in the studio brings the exquisite vocal purity of Portia Nelson to the fore in the 1952 recording of ON YOUR TOES with sole versions of GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY, QUIET NIGHT and the title number whilst she shares IT'S GOT TO BE LOVE and THERE'S A SMALL HOTEL with newcomer Jack Cassidy. Other singers fill out the remaining songs written to fit the show's back-stage milieu with the monumental dance number, SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE at its heart and chorus and orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel.

The 1957-recorded PAL JOEY is less theatrical in flavour and nearer in spirit to the same-year Columbia movie release, with the participation of popular vocalists who are given more free-wheeling ... Read More: