Someone To Watch Over Me
Allen Case
Orchestra under the direction of Frank DeVol
Columbia CL 1406
1958
From the back cover: Judging by his background, it might seem that Allen Case has made such versatility the keynote of most of his twenty-five years. He grew up in Dallas, Texas, spent two years at Southern Methodist University, and then forsook books for buskin in the form of a job on a daily TV variety show in Dallas. It was the first time Case – a shower baritone until then – was paid for singing. Eight months later he quit and moved to New York, where he got a tryout on Arthur Godfrey's morning show. He stayed on that program five weeks, when switched to nightclubs in Miami, Florida and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Case returned to New York to appear in the musical, "Reuben, Reuben," and later, another musical,
"Pleasure Dome" both of which closed out of town. He then went on tour with "Damn Yankees" for a year. Another year was spent back in New York, in "South Pacific," the Broadway "Damn Yankees," club dates, another casualty called "The Carefree Heart," and a few more appearances on the Godfrey show. Early in 1958, he made a guest appearance on the "Jack Parr Show." A small part in a movie led to roles in several TV Westerns: "Wagon Train," "Gunsmoke," "Have Gun Will Travel," "The Rifleman" and "Sugarfoot," Returning to New York for the off-Broadway musical success "Once Upon A Mattress," he left that to do "The Deputy," one of the brightest new shows on television, in which he is seen with Henry Fonda.
"The Deputy Sings" present Allen Case in yet another role, that of a young man interpreting a dozen songs written by this century's most outstanding popular composers. Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, George and Ira Gershwin's Someone To Watch Over Me... these are some of the songs whose creative inventiveness demands that they by sung with wit, understanding and a complete grasp of musical values. And it is just these values that "The Deputy" – Allen Case – brings to them.
Bewitched
The Very Thought Of You
Don't Blame Me
Again
Someone To Watch Over Me
These Foolish Things
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
I Only Have Eyes For You
My Romance
For All We Know
That Old Feeling
I'll Be Seeing You
I watch “The Deputy “ every day, and next to The Virginian, I’ve always thought Allen Case was the best looking man I’ve ever laid eyes on. I did not know he could sing. Thank you for sharing.
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