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Monday, November 13, 2023

Love - Julie Wilson

 

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Love 
Julie Wilson
Arrangements and Musical Direction by Phil Moore
Cover Photo by Bruno of Hollywood
Dolphin Records 6
A division of Doubleday & Company, Inc., publishers
1956

Personnel in Orchestra: Don Elliot, Milt Hinton, Kelly Martin, Urban Green, Barry Galbraith, Sol Gubin, Joe Marshall, Fred Ohms, Harry Lookofsky, Julis Held, Gene Orloff, Felix Orlewitz, Maurice Brown, Isadore Zir

From the back cover: When Julie Wilson sings the blues it seems a wonder that any man would go away and leave this gorgeous girl in tears. And when she sings the blues in this new Dolphin Album, we feel that Dolphin has a personality both versatile and unique.

Julie, born Mary Julia in Omaha Nebraska, has been heard to call herself "corn-fed", a remark which might lead many another belle in search of this particular kind of corn.

Starting out as a girl with a band in Omaha, Julie was a long way from being the toast of the St. Regis Maisonette, where the bald-headed men in the front rows are now dissolved by the flick of her feather boa.

Sultry-voiced Julie has done the night club circuit from the Mocambo in Hollywood to Las Vegas, to New Orleans, to Miami, to New York, to London where she cracked the British reserve wide open following Mary Martin in "South Pacific". She's gone touring in "Kiss Me Kate" and "Kismet" and currently she's doing "Pajama Game" on Broadway.

Wherever she goes and whatever she does, Julie leaves her mark. Now indelibly and as permanently as anything can be, Dolphin has Julie in essence here. We think all the songs are good but ask you to listen carefully to He Was Too Good To Me, Travelin' Light, Sugar, From This Moment On and that old Helen Morgan number, Don't Ever Leave Me. Several of the numbers in slow tempo give very good examples of how exact an artist Julie Wilson is. Phil Moore, who has done the wonderfully beguiling arrangements and orchestration for this album, wrote Paggliacci Has Nothing On Me for Julie. We think he done her right.

Phil Moore, conductor, composer, arranger, performer, has had his finger in nearly every kind of musical pie. He has worked in films, radio, television and is well known for his extensive recordings and cafe work. Performing with Julie Wilson here and abroad, he has also coached, arranged, or produced for Helen Gallagher, Lena Horne, Sinatra, Dorothy Dandridge and many other stars.

From This Moment On
He Was Too Good To Me
You Should Have Told Me
I'm Thur With Love
Why Can't I
Pagliacci Has Nothing On Me
Don't Ever Leave Me
Travelin' Light
True Blue Lou
You've Changed
There's So Much More
You've Got Me Crying Again
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