Eddy Howard, although not necessarily a household name these days, was a hugely popular and successful singer and bandleader during the 1940s and early '50s, racking up more than 40 Billboard pop chart hits from 1946 to 1955, having already had half-a-dozen hits as vocalist with Dick Jurgen's Orchestra during the war years. As a singer, he was a classic crooner, competing for chart honours with the likes of Dick Haymes, and he scored two landmark No. 1s with the ballads "To Each His Own" in 1946 and "It's No Sin" in 1951. They are naturally included in the great-value 52-track collection, which selects recordings from his Vocalion sessions with Dick Jurgens and his solo singles for the Majestic and Mercury labels through into the '50s, as well as some classy jazz titles for Columbia where he records with Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian, Benny Morton and Bud Freeman among others. It is packed full of hits, featuring just about every one of his chart entries, including with more than twenty Top 10 successes. It's a worthy tribute to an artist who has not received the recognition that his success during that era merited, and is a must for lovers of the style that characterised what many regard as the golden era of popular music.
1 My Last Goodbye - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
2 Rainbow Valley - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
3 It's a Hundred to One - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
4 Bluebirds in the Moonlight - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
5 Careless - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
6 In An Old Dutch Garden - Eddy Howard/Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra
7 Star Dust
8 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
9 Exactly Like You
10 To Each His Own
11 (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons
12 My Best to You
13 The Rickety Rickshaw Man
14 The Girl That I Marry
15 Heartaches
16 My Adobe Hacienda
17 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder
18 Ragtime Cowboy Joe
19 An Apple Blossom Wedding
20 Blue Tail Fly
21 Kate (Have I Come Too Early, Too Late)
22 Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
23 Just Because
24 Put 'Em in a Box, Tie 'Em with a Ribbon (And Throw 'Em in the Deep Blue Sea)
25 Dainty Brenda Lee
- Disc 2 -
1 (I'd Love to Get You) on a Slow Boat to China
2 Candy Kisses
3 Room Full of Roses
4 Yes, Yes, in Your Eyes
5 Maybe It's Because
6 Tell Me Why
7 Half a Heart Is All You Left Me (When You Broke My Heart in Two)
8 Rag Mop
9 American Beauty Rose
10 To Think You've Chosen Me
11 The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)
12 A Penny a Kiss - a Penny a Hug
13 The Strange Little Girl
14 What Will I Tell My Heart
15 (A Woman Is a) Deadly Weapon
16 (It's No) Sin
17 Stolen Love
18 Wishin'
19 Be Anything (But Be Mine)
20 Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart
21 Old Fashioned Love
22 I Don't Want to Take a Chance
23 Mademoiselle
24 It's Worth Any Price You Pay
25 Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)
26 Melancholy Me
27 The Teen-Ager's Waltz
Eddy Howard, although not necessarily a household name these days, was a hugely popular and successful singer and bandleader during the 1940s and early '50s, racking up more than 40 Billboard pop chart hits from 1946 to 1955, having already had half-a-dozen hits as vocalist with Dick Jurgen's Orchestra during the war years. As a singer, he was a classic crooner, competing for chart honours with the likes of Dick Haymes, and he scored two landmark No. 1s with the ballads "To Each His Own" in 1946 and "It's No Sin" in 1951. They are naturally included in the great-value 52-track collection, which selects recordings from his Vocalion sessions with Dick Jurgens and his solo singles for the Majestic and Mercury labels through into the '50s, as well as some classy jazz titles for Columbia where he records with Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian, Benny Morton and Bud Freeman among others. It is packed full of hits, featuring just about every one of his chart entries, including with more than twenty Top 10 successes. It's a worthy tribute to an artist who has not received the recognition that his success during that era merited, and is a must for lovers of the style that characterised what many regard as the golden era of popular music.
