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 Jurgens 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 Its 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. Its 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.
REVIEWS
A worthy and intriguing collection from a wrongly ignored crooner of times gone by. - Paul Rigby (Audiophile Man)
Disc 1 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
My Last Goodbye |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
2 |
Rainbow Valley |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
3 |
It's A Hundred To One |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
4 |
Bluebirds In The Moonlight |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
5 |
Careless |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
6 |
In An Old Dutch Garden |
Dick Jurgens Orch. With Eddy Howard |
7 |
Star Dust |
Eddy Howard |
8 |
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams |
Eddy Howard |
9 |
Exactly Like You |
Eddy Howard |
10 |
To Each His Own |
Eddy Howard |
11 |
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons |
Eddy Howard |
12 |
My Best to You |
Eddy Howard |
13 |
The Rickety Rickshaw Man |
Eddy Howard |
14 |
The Girl That I Marry |
Eddy Howard |
15 |
Heartaches |
Eddy Howard |
16 |
My Adobe Hacienda |
Eddy Howard |
17 |
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder |
Eddy Howard |
18 |
Ragtime Cowboy Joe |
Eddy Howard |
19 |
An Apple Blossom Wedding |
Eddy Howard |
20 |
Blue Tail Fly |
Eddy Howard |
21 |
Kate (Have I Come Too Early, Too Late) |
Eddy Howard |
22 |
Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) |
Eddy Howard |
23 |
Just Because |
Eddy Howard |
24 |
Put 'Em in a Box, Tie 'Em with a Ribbon (And Throw 'Em in the Deep Blue Sea) |
Eddy Howard |
25 |
Dainty Brenda Lee |
Eddy Howard |
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Disc 2 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
(I'd Love to Get You) On a Slow Boat to China |
Eddy Howard |
2 |
Candy Kisses |
Eddy Howard |
3 |
Room Full of Roses |
Eddy Howard |
4 |
Yes, Yes, in Your Eyes |
Eddy Howard |
5 |
Maybe It's Because |
Eddy Howard |
6 |
Tell Me Why |
Eddy Howard |
7 |
Half a Heart Is All You Left Me (When You Broke My Heart in Two) |
Eddy Howard |
8 |
Rag Mop |
Eddy Howard |
9 |
American Beauty Rose |
Eddy Howard |
10 |
To Think You've Chosen Me |
Eddy Howard |
11 |
The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart) |
Eddy Howard |
12 |
A Penny a Kiss - A Penny a Hug |
Eddy Howard |
13 |
The Strange Little Girl |
Eddy Howard |
14 |
What Will I Tell My Heart |
Eddy Howard |
15 |
(A Woman Is a) Deadly Weapon |
Eddy Howard |
16 |
(It's No) Sin |
Eddy Howard |
17 |
Stolen Love |
Eddy Howard |
18 |
Wishin' |
Eddy Howard |
19 |
Be Anything (But Be Mine) |
Eddy Howard |
20 |
Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart |
Eddy Howard |
21 |
Old Fashioned Love |
Eddy Howard |
22 |
I Don't Want to Take a Chance |
Eddy Howard |
23 |
Mademoiselle |
Eddy Howard |
24 |
It's Worth Any Price You Pay |
Eddy Howard |
25 |
Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me) |
Eddy Howard |
26 |
Melancholy Me |
Eddy Howard |
27 |
The Teen-ager's Waltz |
Eddy Howard |