Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
2. Cry Me a River
3. Blue Moon
4. Sway
5. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
6. When I Fall in Love
7. Can't Help Lovin' That Man
8. Misty
9. Lover Man
10. Desafinado (Slightly Out of Tune)
11. Girl Talk
12. Let There Be Love
13. Wives and Lovers
14. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
15. Makin' Whoopee
16. Good Life
17. More I See You
18. Taste of Honey
19. Go Slow
20. You and the Night and the Music
21. Black Coffee
22. Basin Street Blues
23. Blues in the Night
24. 'Round Midnight
25. As Time Goes By

Disc 2:

1. Can't Get Used to Losing You
2. September in the Rain
3. Mad About the Boy
4. Love Letters
5. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
6. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
7. Goody Goody
8. Days of Wine and Roses
9. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
10. Light My Fire
11. Here's That Rainy Day
12. Body and Soul
13. God Bless the Child
14. They Can't Take That Away from Me
15. Our Day Will Come
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. End of the World
18. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
19. Love for Sale
20. Sentimental Journey
21. I've Got a Crush on You
22. Call Me Irresponsible
23. You Made Me Love You
24. Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
25. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6279 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Album Description
Julie London, The Very Best of Julie London

Customer Reviews

More Than Just A Compilation
This is more than just a compilation. My husband and I have been collecting music for years and Julie London is one of our favorites. We have several of her LPs and CDs and we were hesitant about getting this one even with the 5-star reviews. We had so much already,but there are a few songs,that have been hard to come by so reluctantly we ordered it and we are so glad we did. The songs are so beautifully arranged and sound so completely different from what we own. There is such a richness to the recordings and you feel like you are hearing her, really hearing her for the first time. We were so totally pleased by our purchase my husband said I had to write our own review. This is Julie at her best and we thank her and EMI-Capitol for bringing it to us. Catherine

Nice overview of a sultry songstress
Julie London did not possess a big voice, but it sure was expressive, husky, intimate, and most of all, sexy. This 50 track, two-disc set is the most extensive Julie London collection available domestically. It spans her entire 30-plus album recording career at Liberty Records, from her biggest hit "Cry Me A River" from 1955's debut Julie Is Her Name to a scintillating take on the Doors' "Light My Fire" from her final effort, 1968's Yummy Yummy Yummy.

Aside from "Cry Me A River" (written by high school classmate Arthur Hamilton) and the also enclosed "Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast (co-penned by hubby Bobby Troup), nearly all of London's recordings were previously popularized by others. But when remade by Julie, these songs sound fresh and distinctly different from the originals. "Wives And Lovers," for instance, becomes a very serious cautionary tale, warning the listener that sexy Julie will steal her man - probably with little effort - if she doesn't shape up and spruce up her appearance. And when, on "My Heart Belongs To Daddy," she seductively invites a guy over to "to dine on my fine finnan haddie," I don't think it is fish that she's actually offering him a nibble of!

For those looking for a more concise Julie London collection or perhaps some additional London recordings, check out Rhino's Time For Love from 1991. It includes 13 wonderful tracks (out of 18) not found on this set.

Superb Late Night Music...
There's something about Julie London's voice... sultry, sexy, super-cool... that perfectly captures the feel of the night. And, if you only know of her through "Cry Me a River" - as most people do - then you're in for a real treat because between the mid 50's and the late 60's she produced a huge amount of similarly beautiful music.

Featuring 50 tracks, most of which are "standards", virtually all of which are near-perfect examples of how to inject pure "atmosphere" into a song, and an incredibly large number of which are better than their more famous originals, this superb compilation will leave you wondering why she wasn't ranked up there with the great artists of her time... and, more interestingly, given the huge popularity of recent "jazz-cool" artists such as Norah Jones, why she's still so undiscovered.

Best of all this selection is a quite superb, flawlessly sung & played "late night" album - put it on and slip into over two hours of gloriously laid back music... you won't find much better.