Mink In Hi-Fi - Monique Van Vooren

 

It's Au Revoir

Mink In Hi-Fi

Monique Van Vooren

With Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra

RCA Victor LPM-1553

1958

From the back cover: The talents of Monique Van Vooren are bountiful, indeed. Visual they most certainly are. Dramatic they are, too, and intellectual as well. And, as this, her first long-playing album attests, they are also aural.

This is sexy singing (Bed) and also gay (Les Amoureux du Havre). It is moody singing (It's Au Devoir and Le Chanson de rues) and it is singing filled with macabre humor (My Man Is Good). It is singing of Latin charm (Sweet T'Jon) and of deep dramatic impact (My Man and Call Me Again When You're In Town). It is the singing of a very gorgeous, womanly woman whose treatment of her music is as convincing and as varied as are her numerous talents.

Monique Van Vooren first came to America as an exchange student, a college major in philosophy, from Belgium, where she had held her country's figure-skating championship. In New York she impressed the theatrical world as a member of the cast, along with Harry Belafonte and Hermione Gingold, of John Murray Anderson's "Almanac." In Manhattan, London, Las Vegas and many other places she charmed those fortunate enough to hear her in person in the smartest night clubs. And, of course, she has delighted those many more persons who have seen and heard her with Dean Martin in the MGM movie "10,000 Bedrooms."

And now here, with the able assistance of Skitch Henderson and his orchestra, Monique Van Vooren unveils her charm and her unusual vocal talent in a most arresting and impressive display of Mink In Hi-Fi.

Bed

Le Rififi

My Man

Sweet T'Jon

It's Au Revoir

Casino Blues

My Man Is Good

Les Amoureux du Havre

Coin de rue

Le Chanson de rues

Sheridan Square

Call Me Again When You're In Town