Cleo Laine - You'll Answer To Me: A Selected Anthology / 2CD set

2022 CD collection.

Dame CLEO LAINE, DBE, is arguably Britain’s most all-time versatile singer. Although acknowledged as the U.K.’s finest Jazz export, Cleo is comfortable in almost any musical genre and is the only female vocalist to have received Grammy nominations in the Jazz, Popular and Classical music categories. Famous for her scat singing and extraordinary vocal range, although she is a natural contralto, Cleo can produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of four octaves. This compilation traces the first twelve years of her career, beginning with her earliest sides as an uncredited ensemble vocalist in The Johnny Dankworth Seven, in 1951, through to her emergence as a major solo star at the turn of the 60s, when she registered an unlikely mainstream Pop hit, ‘You’ll Answer To Me’. Laine has been hugely prolific and this compilation is drawn from fourteen singles, five EPs and six LPs. The first comprehensive compilation of this body of her work, a number of these sides are notoriously hard to find elsewhere on CD.

    - Disc 1 -
    1 Mr & Mississippi (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    2 Lush Life (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    3 (It's No) Sin (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    4 The Very Thought of You (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    5 Honeysuckle Rose (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    6 Easy Living (As the Johnny Dankworth Seven)
    7 I Know You're Mine (With Johnny Dankworth & His Orch)
    8 Ain't Misbehavin' (With Johnny Dankworth & His Orch)
    9 Spread a Little Happiness (With the Keith Christie Quintet)
    10 You've Done Something to My Heart (With the Keith Christie Quintet)
    11 Mad About the Boy (With the Keith Christie Quintet)
    12 A Love Like Ours (With the Keith Christie Quintet)
    13 I'm Beginning to See the Light
    14 I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
    15 April Age (With the Dave Lee Quintet)
    16 April in Paris (With the Dave Lee Quintet)
    17 The Lady Sings the Blues
    18 Stormy Weather
    19 Love Is Here to Stay
    20 T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)
    21 Hit the Road to Dreamland
    22 Something's Gotta Give (With the David Lindup Orch)
    23 Unforgettable (With the David Lindup Orch)
    24 All of You (With the David Lindup Orch)
    25 Teach Me Tonight (With the David Lindup Orch)
    26 Young at Heart (With the David Lindup Orch)
    - Disc 2 -
    1 Hand Me Down Love
    2 They Were Right
    3 Indian Summer
    4 Sugar
    5 O Mistress Mine
    6 Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind
    7 Let's Slip Away
    8 Thieving Boy
    9 Ole Devil Moon (Live) (With Tubby Hayes)
    10 Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' (Live) (With Tubby Hayes)
    11 Mean to Me (Live) (With Tubby Hayes)
    12 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Live) (With Tubby Hayes)
    13 The Necessary Love
    14 You'll Answer to Me
    15 I Only Have Eyes for You
    16 Mister One and Only
    17 No Such Thing As Love
    18 Waiting for Johnny to Come Home
    19 I Think of You
    20 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    21 I Don't Know Why
    22 All About Me
    23 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
    24 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
    25 I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All
    26 I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
    27 I'll Be Around
    28 You Gotta Have Love