Track Listing

1. THE GIRL ON THE LITTLE BLUE PLATE
2. I�LL BET YOU TELL THAT TO ALL THE GIRLS
3. FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
4. YOU CAN�T SLEEP UP HERE
5. WHO?
6. SIMPLE AND SWEET
7. YOU GO TO MY HEAD
8. I WON�T GO HOME
9. MIGHTY LAK A ROSE
10. THE LAMP IS LOW
11. A CONCERT IN THE PARK
12. IT MUST HAVE BEEN TWO OTHER PEOPLE
13. WHAT�S NEW?
14. WITH THE WIND AND THE RAIN IN YOUR HAIR
15. DO I LOVE YOU?
16. ST. LOUIS BLUES
17. FRIENDSHIP
18. YOU, YOU DARLIN�
19. FOOLS RUSH IN (WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD)
20. WE�LL MEET AGAIN
21. KNEE-DEEP IN STARDUST
22. I LOVE YOU MORE, MORE EVERY DAY
23. YO TE AMO, OH! BABY
24. HOW LONG DID I DREAM?
25. THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS AND STRIPES

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210177 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Approved by Kyser historian, but...
This is a very nice collection w/ some rarities, but has its flaws. The good news is the first song Simms cut w/ Kay Kyser's band is here (THE GIRL ON THE LITTLE BLUE PLATE) and there ARE some alternate takes, including some that I think got past producer Dan Rivard, including ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT RHYTHM.The musical arrangement is the same, but the vocal phrasing is just different enough to tell. The early boy singer before Harry Babbitt was BILL 'SMILIN' STOKER. He's referred to here every time as BILL STOKES. C'mon guys!. If that was YOUR Granddad it would matter! The liner notes by Gary Theroux are wrong in some spots (like they were in the KK collection last year FUN W/ THE OLD PROFESSOR when he called CAROLINA BLUES, Kyser's last film, CAROLINA MOON (sheesh...)Here Theroux states that Simms returned to the fold briefly in '43 in the KK film AROUND THE WORLD. Not so, Theroux! After Ginny left in '41 she never returned. He also states that Kyser was shy and commitment-phobic. Kyser was a very private man, true, but not shy, and in '44 married one of the most beautiful women in the world, Georgia Carroll, a marriage that lasted 40 years. The cleaned-up sound is nice and crisp, but as a sound engineer of 20 years I must note that losing some of the surface noise also took away some of the vocal warmth and in spots the brass sounds thin and tinny. The art is great, even if the pic under the CD looks like Ginny's got her hand stuck in a Grecian urn! Finally, the pic on the cover, where Ginny, Kay, et al are standing in front of a plane waving to the camera- They don't tell you the band was on its way to Atlanta to play the premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND.Try to get it right next time, guys...

Perfect pitch, perfect voice, perfect cd!
Ginny Simms was the best singer to come out of teh late 1930's, and continue into the 40's. She sang with perfect intonation, and has one of the sweetest voices of the period. She had knack of turning dreadful material into something spectacular without sounding like the song was beaneath her singing it. She is the dictionary definition of "song stylist", she has more style, then any other girl singer of the period. Really only Connee Boswell or Frances Langford were on her same level of singing. This cd is one of the few legit releases and should be acquired by any fans of 30's pop vocals.

She was anything but simple!
This is a very good addition to the Kay Kyser collection. Ginny was a torch singer but was great at everything she sang. Duets were very common in the arrangements this band performed. You might want to try a Harry Babbit CD too! My guess is that the copyrights for these numbers somehow effects the way they are now distributed.