Hal Kemp was one of the most consistently successful and prolific hitmakers among the many popular bandleaders whose orchestras played the "sweet" style of music which dominated the radio airwaves during the 1930s in the USA. Their repertoire not only encompassed dance band music, but vocal renditions of some of the hot new songs of the day emerging from Tin Pan Alley, along with compositions from the stage shows and movies which the Great American Songbook writers like Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart were creating. This excellent-value 46-track 2-CD collection completely comprises the biggest of his 58 career hits on the Brunswick and Victor labels before his untimely death in 1940 at the age of 38 in a road accident. It features the No. 1s "There's A Small Hotel", "When I'm With You", "This Year's Kisses", "Where or When", and his other Top 3 hits "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time", "Shuffle Off To Buffalo", "For All We Know", "With All My Heart", "A Star Fell Out Of Heaven", and "The Touch Of Your Lips". Featured vocalists include Skinny Ennis, Maxine Grey, Bob Allen, Saxie Dowell, Nan Wynn and Janet Blair. It's a substantial and evocative overview of the hit career of a highly successful orchestra leader, with early versions of some of the great songs of the era.
3 I Don't Want to Make History (I Just Want to Make Love)
4 When I'm with You
5 A Star Fell Out of Heaven
6 Me and the Moon
7 I've Got You Under My Skin
8 Pennies from Heaven
9 With Plenty of Money and You
10 Goodnight, My Love
11 This Year's Kisses
12 What Will I Tell My Heart?
13 Where or When
14 Whispers in the Dark
15 Where in the World
16 The Night Is Filled with Music
17 Don't Worry 'Bout Me
18 The Chestnut Tree ('Neath the Spreading Chestnut Tree)
19 Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)
20 Love for Sale
21 What's New
22 So You're the One
23 It All Comes Back to Me Now
Hal Kemp was one of the most consistently successful and prolific hitmakers among the many popular bandleaders whose orchestras played the "sweet" style of music which dominated the radio airwaves during the 1930s in the USA. Their repertoire not only encompassed dance band music, but vocal renditions of some of the hot new songs of the day emerging from Tin Pan Alley, along with compositions from the stage shows and movies which the Great American Songbook writers like Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart were creating. This excellent-value 46-track 2-CD collection completely comprises the biggest of his 58 career hits on the Brunswick and Victor labels before his untimely death in 1940 at the age of 38 in a road accident. It features the No. 1s "There's A Small Hotel", "When I'm With You", "This Year's Kisses", "Where or When", and his other Top 3 hits "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time", "Shuffle Off To Buffalo", "For All We Know", "With All My Heart", "A Star Fell Out Of Heaven", and "The Touch Of Your Lips". Featured vocalists include Skinny Ennis, Maxine Grey, Bob Allen, Saxie Dowell, Nan Wynn and Janet Blair. It's a substantial and evocative overview of the hit career of a highly successful orchestra leader, with early versions of some of the great songs of the era.