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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Best Beat Forward - Diahann Carroll

Best Beat Forward
Diahann Carroll
Produced and Directed by Herman Diaz, Jr.
Vik LX-1131
A Product Of Radio Corporation Of America
1958

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover art and an excerpt from the jacket notes.

From the back cover: We've been lucky to count Diahann as a "part-time regular" on NBC-TV's "Tonight." For all her youth, she's proved herself to be every inch a professional. She resorts to no trick vocal gimmicks, which, I confess, are personal pet peeves of mine. Her voice has purity and sureness. She sets an undeniable mood of excitement. She possesses a rare feeling for a lyric – mean gin she understands what she's singing. And her beauty goes almost without saying – she's the picture of fragile loveliness. Offstage, she's warm, simple and unpretentious.

As I say, the girl has class. And class never goes out of style. – Jack Parr


I May Be Wrong
Easy To Love
This Can't Be Love
A Fine Romance
Cheek To Cheek
Old Devil Moon
Love (Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere)
You're An Old Smoothie
Falling In Love With Love
S'posin'
If I Love Again
The Song Is Ended

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