The Charming Miss Edie Adams

I Must Love You

The Charming Miss Edie Adams
A Product of Unique Music Corp.
Printed and Mfg. by Crown Album Corp.
RKO Records ULP-135
1959

From the back cover: Edie Adams, the honey-voiced lass with the golden hair and a sparkling personality to match, is one of the most versatile young stars in show business today. A proficient actress, singer, satirist and comedienne, Edie's credits list like a European holiday menu. Nightclubs, Broadway and TV have all been graced with the appearance of the charming Miss Adams.

Though Kingston, Pa. claims Edie as its native born, Grove City, Pa. was her home from the time she was six until her second year in high school when the family again moved to New York. One year later the final move was made and the family settled in Tenafly, New Jersey, during which time Edith Enke (as she was known then) completed high school at Julia Richmond. A bundle of energy and vitality, Edie didn't let the complications of moving interfere with her extracurricular activities which included singing in the church choir, leads in the school operates and marching at the head of all parades twirling a baton.

Intending to be a music teacher like her mother, Edie enrolled at New York's Juilliard School of Music studying voice during her four years there and acquired a solid classical background. Then came a year at Columbia's School of the Drama, while at the same time attending voice training classes with Met star Helen Jepson and Edie was ready for the bright future which was to be her well deserved fate. She was already a "pro" when she made one of the most important decisions of her career. Convinced her soprano voice was "not too commercial" and that she was a frustrated "pop" singer, Edie made the difficult transition to popular music and in a matter of months worked successfully in her brining her voice down more than two octaves.

After a number of TV and nightclub appearances, Edie auditioned and was signed as a regular on the "Ernie Kovacs Show" on WCBS-TV where she developed her great potential for comedy. Though Edie claims not to be a comedienne, TV audiences will always remember the glib Miss Adams running through a variety of crazy sketches or acting the dumb blonde salesgirl commenting on the conveniences of a breakaway vacuum cleaner. While still cavorting daily on the Kovacs show she was selected to play Eileen in the Broadway musical comedy "Wonderful Town" based on "My Sister Eileen." Beating some 300 competitors for the part, Edie made her Broadway debut with such theatrical luminaries as Rosalind Russell and won not only unanimous critical praise but two Donaldson awards in one theatre season, one for the Best Debut Performance and the other for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she was also awarded the Daniel Blum Theatre World Award and the New York Post Student Citation.

Edie' nightclub appearances at such fashionable spots as the Plaza's Persian Room and Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club doing her famous Marilyn Monroe characterization as well as her impression of Grace Kelly doing Rock 'n' Roll and Marlene Dietrich slouched in a raincoat, won her more accolades. Another laurel was added to the Adams wreath of success when she was chosen for the covetous part of Daisy May in the Broadway hit "Li'l Abner" based on the famous Al Capp comic strip.

Yet another role in her already busy lie is that of wife to another performing favorite, Ernie Kovacs.

Supplying the musical background for Edie is Joe Leahy and his orchestra. Joe, composer, orchestra leader and musician was one of the first who predicted stardom for Edie at the outset of her career when she was unknown to the "Who' Who" of the theatrical trade. Joe Leahy's compositions won immediate approval from Edie and it is only fitting that two of these, "Swiss Holiday" and his "Theme from Studio X" be included in this album, Edie Adams, which RKO Records is proud to present.

There May Be A Lover
He Don't Wanna Be Kissed
Why Can't I
Swiss Holiday
He Was Too Good
If You Don't Love Me
Sailor Man
I Must Love You
The Theme From Studio X
There's So Much More