For Young Lovers - Tommy Edwards

 

I Looked At Heaven

For Young Lovers

Tommy Edwards

Orchestra Conducted by Leroy Holmes

Cover Photograph by Arnold Rosebery

MGM Records E3760

1959

From the back cover: Tommy Edwards ranks among the most popular song stylists of our day. His light, lilting voice and his intensely musical way with any sort of song is completely personal – completely Edwards! He's a lad of many talents... singer... composer... lyricist. For example, songs like "I Looked At Heaven" and "Up A Cloud," included in this album, are products of his own tunesmithing pen. Songs he had written accidentally opened up Tommy's singing career. A few year, he penned a number called "That Chick's Too Young To Fry". It became quite a hit, if one that passed by quickly after racking up a great sale. Encouraged, Tommy left his native Virginia for New York, an impressive sheaf of his musical brain-children under his arm. There, a bit pinched for money, he decided to save on hiring a professional singer to record demonstrations of his songs for publishers and record companies by singing them himself. One of these recordings, passed to MGM Records, drew more response for the voice than the song. Officials of MGM immediately signed Tommy to a recording contract as a singer – to his own amazement. Soon, he had a string of big hits in such million-sellers as "It's All In The Game," "The Morningside Of The Mountain," and "You Win Again". Several of his own originals songs meanwhile made the "Hit Parade" grade neatly. Then, as "rock-n-roll" came in, Tommy, like many other fine artists, was momentarily swept out of the limelight. But, as the "big beat" settles into comparative quietness again, he "came back" in resoundingly successful fashion. A remake of "It's All In The Game" catapulted him into fame again – and hit after hit recording followed. Today, Tommy Edwards is solidly established as one of America's favorite ballad specialists – a singer with unique talents and unique appeal. All of those talents and that appeal combine in this album to provide a listening experience you'll thrill to again and again.

From Billboard- August 17, 1959: A stylish set of ballad readings by the popular artist in his second MGM album. LeRoy Holmes lends nice, flowing backings in the gentle triplet groove for tunes like "She Sends Her Regards," "My Melancholy Baby," "I Looked At Heaven," and "Music Maestro, Please," the latter of which figures as a logical and strong choice for a single. Good, programmable wax that should do well sales-wise.

My Melancholy Baby

A Teardrop On A Rose

Paradise

I Looked A Heaven

She Sends Her Regards

It All Belongs To You

Music, Maestro, Please

Take These Chains From My Heart

Once There Lived A Fool

Up In A Cloud

It's Only The Good Times

Welcome Me