JRR 17 Aug

JRR  170825

Cleo Laine special

DISC 1

Artist              Cleo Laine and John Dankworth Orchestra

Title                Perdido

Composer       Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder 

Album             The Collection

Label               Spectrum Music

Number          5447702 Track 4

Duration         2.50

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Dankworth, as, cl, dir: plus his orchestra, 1968

DISC 2

Artist              Cleo Laine 

Title                It Was A Lover And His Lass

Composer       Shakespeare / Thomas Morley / Dankworth

Album             It Was  A Lover And His Lass

Label               Esquire

Number          ESQ 301 T 1

Duration         3.27

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Dankworth, cl, as; Keith Christie, tb; Bill Le Sage p, vib; Bill Sutcliffe, b; Allan Ganley, d. 3 March 1955

DISC 3

Artist              Cleo Laine and the Duke Ellington Orchestra (Led by Mercer Ellington)

Title                I’m Beginning to See the Light

Composer       James / Ellington / Hodges / George

Album             Solitude

Label               RCA Victor

Number          09026 68124-2 Track 3

Duration         3.03

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Dankworth, cl. as; Shelley Paul ts. Plus orchestra. 1995.

DISC 4 

Artist              Cleo Laine / Dudley Moore

Title                Strictly For The Birds

Composer       Moore

Album             n/a

Label               CBS

Number          A2947 Side A             

Duration         2.04

Personnel: Cleo Laine, v; Dudley Moore, v, p; Pete McGurk, b; Chris Karan, d. 1961

DISC 5

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                All The World’s a Stage / If Music Be The Food Of Love

Composer       Shakespeare / John Dankworth       

Album             Word Songs

Label               Philips

Number          830461 Track 1

Duration         3.29

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Dankworth, cl; Paul Hart, p; Daryl Runswick, b; Allan Ganley, d. 1977

DISC 6

Artist              Cleo Laine / Mel Torme

Title                Two Tune Medley (Sweet Sue, Honeysuckle Rose, I May Be Wrong, The Nearness of You, There’s No You, Blue Moon, Watch What Happens, Exactly Like You, Take The A Train, Million Dollar Baby, On The Alamo, Fly Me to the Moon, Autumn Leaves, Yesterday When I was Young, You and The Night and The Music, Sing, Guilty, Feelin’ Groovy.)

Composer: Victor Young, Waller / Razaf, Henry Sullivan, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodgers/Hart. Hal Hopper, Gimbel/Legrand, Fields/ McHugh, Billy Strayhorn, Tommy Richman, Jones/Kahn, Howard, Kosma / Prevert, Aznavour / Garvarentz, Dietz / Schwartz, Talbot, Whiting / Akst / Kahn, Paul Simon.

Album             Nothing without you

Label               Concord

Number          4515 Track 6

Duration         4.48

Performers    Cleo Laine / Mel Torme v; John Dankworth, cl, as; arr, cond; Guy Barker, t; Chris Smith, tb; Jamie Talbot, Ray Leockle, Ray Swinfield, David Roach, reeds; John Colliani, p; Larry Koonse, g; John Leitham, b; Donny Osborne, d. 1992.

DISC 7

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                On a Clear Day

Composer       Lane / Lerner

Album             Portrait of a Song Stylist

Label               Harmony Collection

Number          HARLP 107 Track 1

Duration         3.10

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; plus John Dankworth Orchestra 1971.

DISC 8

Artist              Cleo Laine, / Ray Charles

Title                It Ain’t Necessarily So

Composer       Gershwin, Heyward

Album             Porgy And Bess

Label               RCA

Number          CPL 2 1831 Disc 2 Side A Track 6

Duration         4.18

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; Ray Charles, v; with Frank De Vol orchestra including, Al Aarons, Bill Berry, Sweets Edison, Buddy Childers, t; Benny Powell, Britt Woodman, J J Johnson, Jimmy Cleveland, tb; Bill Perkins, Bud Shank, Jerome Richardson, reeds; Joe Sample org; Paul Smith, p; Joe Pass, Lee Ritenour, g; Chuck Berghofer, b; Washington Rucker, d. 1976.

DISC 9

Artist              Cleo Laine and John Williams

Title                He Was Beautiful (Cavatina)

Composer       Cleo Laine / Stanley Myers

Album             Best Friends

Label               RCA

Number          PL 11937 Side B Track 6

Duration         4.20

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Williams, g. 1976.

DISC 10

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                Thieving Boy

Composer       Alun Owen / Dankworth

Album             Word Songs

Label               Philips

Number          830461 Track 29

Duration         3.29

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; John Dankworth, cl. 1977.

DISC 11

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                Lovers and Friends

Composer       Daryl Runswick

Album             One More Day

Label               DRG

Number          SL 5198 S2 T 4

Duration         3.17

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; Daryl Runswick, b, arr; John Horler, kb; Ronnie Verrell, d; Tony Coe, reeds.  1981

DISC 12

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                Sigh No More Ladies

Composer       Shakespeare, Young

Album             Cleo sings Elizabethan

Label               Columbia

Number          SEG7938 Side A Track 2

Duration         3.32

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; Ray Premru, btp, Jim Brown, frh,  Johnny Scott, Vic Ash, Bob  Burns, Iver Slaney, reeds; Bill Le Sage p; Jack Fallon, b; J Duggan, d. 1959

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DISC 13

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                Duet of Sonnets

Composer       Shakespeare / Dankworth

Album             Shakespeare and All That Jazz

Label               Fontana

Number          TL 5209 T 3

Duration         3.56

Performers    Cleo Laine, v; Ken Wheeler, tenor hn; John Dankworth, as; Alan Branscombe, p; Ray Dempsey, g; Johnny Butts, d. 1964

DISC 14

Artist              Cleo Laine

Title                All Gone

Composer       Harold Pinter / John Dankworth

Album             Woman Talk

Label               Fontana

Number          TL 5316 S 2 T 5

Duration         3.13

Performers    Cleo Laine with studio orchestra directed by David Lindup. 1963