Ruth Etting, who acquired the nickname “America’s Sweetheart Of Song”, was a singer and actress who was one of the most popular and successful performers during the 1920s and early 1930s, who retired from the business in 1937 when she was about 40 years old. As a young girl Etting had wanted to become an artist and from the age of 16 attended art school in Chicago. While working at the Marigold Gardens nightclub, she decided to give up art classes in favour of a career in show business and went on to perform regularly on the Broadway stage.
Many of her 60 hit songs were early versions of Great American Songbook classics from the popular musicals and revues of the era. This 71-track 3CD collection comprises all her 62 records which are listed as hits, along with selected other recordings of some of the great songs of the time from her releases on the Columbia, Melotone, Brunswick, Banner and Decca labels. It features her No.1 with Life Is A Song, and her other classic hits ’Deed I Do, Love Me Or Leave Me, Back In Your Own Back Yard, Ten Cents A Dance, I’ll Get By, Mean To Me, Guilty, Body And Soul, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Try A Little Tenderness and many more. On turning her back on celebrity, Etting settled in Colorado Springs and lived a quiet life before her passing at the age of 81 in 1978. Etting’s life was the basis for the fictionalised 1955 film, Love Me or Leave Me which starred Doris Day (as Etting) alongside James Cagney and Cameron Mitchell.
This collection offers a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for a performer who was a highly distinctive vocalist, with a personal way with a song, and her music was very much of its era.
TRACKS
Disc 1 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Let's Talk About My Sweetie |
Ruth Etting |
2
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Lonesome And Sorry |
Ruth Etting |
3 |
But I Do, You Know I Do |
Ruth Etting |
4 |
(I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of You |
Ruth Etting |
5 |
Deed I Do |
Ruth Etting |
6 |
Sam The Old Accordion Man |
Ruth Etting |
7 |
It All Depends On You |
Ruth Etting |
8 |
Hoosier Sweetheart (Say Who) |
Ruth Etting |
9 |
Wistful And Blue |
Ruth Etting |
10 |
(What Do We Do) On A Dew-Dew-Dewy Day |
Ruth Etting |
11 |
After You've Gone |
Ruth Etting |
12 |
I'm Nobody's Baby |
Ruth Etting |
13 |
It All Belongs To Me |
Ruth Etting |
14 |
Shaking The Blues Away |
Ruth Etting |
15 |
The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On) |
Ruth Etting |
16 |
Together We Two |
Ruth Etting |
17 |
Keep Sweeping Cobwebs Off The Moon |
Ted Lewis & His Band With Ruth Etting |
18 |
Back In Your Own Back Yard |
Ruth Etting |
19 |
When You're With Somebody Else |
Ruth Etting |
20 |
Ramona |
Ruth Etting |
21 |
Say Yes Today |
Ruth Etting |
22 |
Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now |
Ruth Etting |
23 |
Beloved |
Ruth Etting |
24 |
Happy Days And Lonely Nights |
Ruth Etting |
Disc 2 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Sonny Boy |
Ruth Etting |
2 |
My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now |
Ruth Etting |
3 |
Love Me Or Leave Me |
Ruth Etting |
4 |
I'm Bringing A Red Red Rose |
Ruth Etting |
5 |
You're The Cream In My Coffee |
Ruth Etting |
6 |
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) |
Ruth Etting |
7 |
Glad Rag Doll |
Ruth Etting |
8 |
Mean To Me |
Ruth Etting |
9 |
Button Up Your Overcoat |
Ruth Etting |
10 |
Deep Night |
Ruth Etting |
11 |
Ain't Misbehavin' |
Ruth Etting |
12 |
What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man |
Ruth Etting |
13 |
The Right Kind Of Man |
Ruth Etting |
14 |
More Than You Know |
Ruth Etting |
15 |
Cryin' For The Carolines |
Ruth Etting |
16 |
Ten Cents A Dance |
Ruth Etting |
17 |
A Cottage For Sale |
Ruth Etting |
18 |
Exactly Like You |
Ruth Etting |
19 |
It Happened In Monterey |
Ruth Etting |
20 |
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes |
Ruth Etting |
21 |
The Kiss Waltz |
Ruth Etting |
22 |
Don't Tell Her What Happened To Me |
Ruth Etting |
23 |
Body And Soul |
Ruth Etting |
Disc 3 |
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Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Just A Little Closer |
Ruth Etting |
2 |
I'll Be Blue Just Thinking Of You (From Now On) |
Ruth Etting |
3 |
Laughing At Life |
Ruth Etting |
4 |
Reaching For The Moon |
Ruth Etting |
5 |
Overnight |
Ruth Etting |
6 |
Love Is Like That (What Can You Do)? |
Ruth Etting |
7 |
Falling In Love Again |
Ruth Etting |
8 |
Were You Sincere |
Ruth Etting |
9 |
Moonlight Saving Time |
Ruth Etting |
10 |
I'm Good For Nothing But Love |
Ruth Etting |
11 |
Now That You're Gone |
Ruth Etting |
12 |
Guilty |
Ruth Etting |
13 |
Good Night Sweetheart |
Ruth Etting |
14 |
Cuban Love Song |
Ruth Etting |
15 |
When We're Alone (Penthouse Serenade) |
Ruth Etting |
16 |
The Night When Love Was Born |
Ruth Etting |
17 |
It Was So Beautiful |
Ruth Etting |
18 |
Try A Little Tenderness |
Ruth Etting |
19 |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
Ruth Etting |
20 |
With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming |
Ruth Etting |
21 |
Life Is A Song (Let's Sing It Together) |
Ruth Etting |
22 |
Shine On Harvest Moon |
Ruth Etting |
23 |
In The Chapel In The Moonlight |
Ruth Etting |
24 |
May I Have The Next Romance With You |
Ruth Etting |