I think that if Jane had continued to record as well as making films she would have been pretty successful...Its a pity she didn't make more studio recordings
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) was an American actress, singer, and model. She is known as one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1940, Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul Howard Hughes, and made her motion-picture debut in The Outlaw (1943), a story about Billy the Kid that went to great lengths to showcase her voluptuous figure.
Russell played Dorothy Shaw in the hit film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) opposite Marilyn Monroe for 20th Century Fox. The film was a huge success, Russell's biggest hit since The Outlaw, making over $5 million.
In October 1957, she debuted in a successful solo nightclub act at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. A self-titled solo LP was issued on MGM Records in 1959. It was reissued on CD in 2009 under the title Fine and Dandy, "I finally got to make a record the way I wanted to make it," she said of the MGM album in the liner notes to the CD reissue
1. Fine And Dandy
2. Take Love Easy
3. Love On The Rocks
4. When A Woman Loves A Man
5. Can't We Talk It Over
6. You Don't Know What love Is
1. Love Is Here To Stay
2. The One I Love
3. How Long Has This Being Going On
4. You're Mine You
5. Born to Be Blue
6. There Will Never Be Another You
3. How Long Has This Been Going On
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ReplyDeleteExcellent album, thanks. Jane Russell, eh! Together with Ava Gardener they were pin-ups on many walls!! Ah, those days of nylon stockings and . . . but my eyes have now glazed over and I cannot continue to type.
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Mel Tormé - Velvet Moods.
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https://www.discogs.com/Sammy-Davis-Jr-Thats-Entertainment/release/2390991
https://www.discogs.com/The-Billy-Eckstine-Orchestra-The-First-Big-Bop-Band/release/14208055
https://www.discogs.com/Earl-Hines-And-His-Orchestra-Featuring-Billy-Eckstine-The-Father-Jumps/release/4734538
Hi Kuku...Sorry that I have not got any of the above...Maybe someone else will be able to point you to a link...cheers...
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks ! Since 3 hours i search this lp ! Long live for Luigis50s60svinylcorner.blogspot.com !
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