Best-known for her US Top 10 hit with Fascination and her 1958 UK No.1 The Day The Rains Came, Jane Morgan was a singer with a fascinating background.

Born in 1924, she sang competitively from an early age and attended the famous Juilliard School of Music in New York, training to be an opera singer, and funding her studies by singing in night-clubs. She was invited to Paris in the mid-’40s by orchestra leader Bernard Hilda, and became a popular cabaret performer, singing in French, and appearing on television, and while in Europe she made records in Paris and London. Returning to the USA in the early ’50s, she signed with the newly-established Kapp Records, for whom she recorded until the early 1960s.

This 54-track set features selected A- and B-sides of her early singles, including The Day The Rains Came and Fascination.

She had voice of remarkable purity and clarity, with an effortless sense of phrasing that made her an extremely versatile artist, able to handle repertoire across the spectrum.

This substantial cross-section of her primary career as a recording artist provides an enlightening and enjoyable showcase for her distinctive talent as a song stylist.

REVIEWS

Possessing one of the most melodious and perfect pitched voices of all the post war songbirds, Jane Morgan has had plenty of reissues of many of her albums over the years. However, I don't recall a collection that dealt with her singles, still less one that delved back to her forties French recordings, so this issue is especially welcome... This is an excellent collection by one of the finest female singers of her era and it was good to make the acquaintance of so many previously unheard tracks. - Gerry Stonestreet (In Tune Issue 352)