Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Busy As a Bee
2. What's the Matter With Me?
3. What'll They Think of Next?
4. How High the Moon
5. Let's All Sing Together
6. Fable of the Rose
7. Shake Down the Stars
8. Be Sure
9. Yours Is My Heart Alone
10. Sky Fell Down
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Once More
13. Buds Won't Bud
14. Devil May Care
15. I'm Nobody's Baby
16. I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do) [#]
17. Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
18. Moon Won't Talk
19. Mister Meadowlark
20. I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)

Disc 2:

1. I Can't Resist You
2. Dreaming Out Loud
3. Li'l Boy Love
4. Nobody
5. Man I Love
6. Taking a Chance on Love
7. Cabin the Sky
8. Hard to Get
9. These Things You Left Me
10. More Than You Know
11. Yes, My Darling Daughter
12. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
13. I Left My Heart in Your Hand
14. I Hear a Rhapsody
15. It's Always You
16. Corn Silk
17. Birds of a Feather

Disc 3:

1. Your Dangerous
2. Mem'ry of a Rose
3. This Is New
4. Perfidia (Tonight)
5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
6. Jenny [#]
7. Lazy River
8. Yours
9. You Lucky People, You
10. Oh! Look at Me Now
11. My Sister and I
12. Amapola
13. Good Evenin', Good Lookin'
14. I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)
15. When the Sun Comes Out
16. (When Your Heart's on Fire) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
17. Soft as Spring
18. Down, Down, Down (What a Song)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33355 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-12
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Album Description
From one of the greatest singers from the Swing Era, this 3 CD retrospective features Helen & Benny Goodman's complete work together. Over half of these tracks have never been on CD. Also included in this Collectors' Choice Music release are tons of photos and extensive liner notes.

Customer Reviews

Two Of The Greatest Stars Of The Swing Era
I'm amazed that this set, which was issued in 2001, hasn't attracted any earlier reviews, because in my opinion this should be indispensable for any devotee of the Swing Era. It spans barely eighteen months, from the very end of 1939 until mid-1941, and during that period Helen Forrest sang on the vast majority of the orchestral recordings.

There is a total of 55 tracks here, and my only minor criticism is that a self-proclaimed complete set should include both issued takes of Lazy River. Against that, a previously rejected take of I Can't Love You Any More is included, as is a late January 1941 recording of Jenny, from Lady In The Dark, on which Benny duets with Helen (which is perhaps the reason why it was not released!). That date raises another question mark though, because it included a Columbia test of an obscure number titled Afraid To Say Hello, which is not included.

Having said which, this is as close to the full works as you're likely to get, and the contrast between Benny's brilliant-toned clarinet and Helen's warm vibrato and laid-back style makes this a set to treasure.

The Complete Helen Forrest with Benny Goodman
Helen Forrest was one of the primer vocalists during the Golden Age of the Big Bands: first with Artie Shaw and then with Benny Goodman after Shaw folded his band in 1939. This collection shows Goodman's band at its best and Helen at her prime. Included are songs that even I, an avid fan of both Goodman and Forrest, don't remember from those days. These songs are some of the best from that era, and Helen sings them as they should be sung. I heartily recommend it.