Love Makes The World Go Round - Anna Maria Alberghetti

Love Make The World Go Round

Love Makes The World Go Around
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Arranged and Conducted by Luther Henderson
Cover Photo: Howell Conant
Recording Engineer: Phil Ramone
Produced by Howard Scott
MGM High Fidelity E 4001
1962

From the back cover: Anna Maria began her flirtation with music on the day she was born. Her father, who had once been a singer, had set his heart on having a boy who would carry on his own career. But when the nurse announced that the newest Alberghetti was very much a girl, he decided then and there "I'll make a singer of her anyhow."

Maestro Alberghetti was as good as his word, Anna Maria made her vocal debut at the advance age of six. The occasion was a hospital benefit in the bomb-shattered island of Rhodes. In the audience sat a high Italian official who was so impressed with the girl's talent that he arranged the family's escape from the war-torn island.

For the rest of the war, the Alberghettis took refuge in the Italian countryside. With the coming of Allied troops, however, Anna Maria emerged from the farm to sing to the GIs. The American went wild over her – as they have ever since.

When Anna Maria was thirteen, the family came to the United States. Anna was already a seasoned veteran of European concert stages and almost the first thing she did upon arrival was to take hard-bitten Carnegie Hall by storm. Then following a dizzying round of appearances in concerts, on television and – inevitably – in motion pictures. She won kudos for her touching film performance in the Gian-Carlo Menotti's spine-chiller, "The Medium."

Since then Anna Maria has set her sights more and more on the world of popular entertainment. She restyled herself from a child prodigy into a sophisticated show-woman. Summers were spent in stock theatre, where she sought out those roles that would let her develop as an actress. Winters were spent in nightclub engagements, where she became the darling of sophisticated ringsiders.

Then, last season, along came "Carnival" – with its ready-made role for her unique gifts as singer and as actress. And the rest is show business history. – Notes by Freda Bright

While We're Young
Where Are You
I Want To Be Happy
Hi-lili Hi-lo
More That You Know
It's A Most Unusual Day
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
How Long Has This Been Going On
This Can't Be Love
Do It Again "Theme From Carnival!" (Love Makes The World Go Round)