Pearl Bailey

 

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.....Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976.Bailey hosted her own variety series on ABC, The Pearl Bailey Show (January – May 1971) which featured many notable guests, including Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong (one of his last appearances before his death).

1. It Takes Two To Tango

2. The Birth Of The Blues

3. Toot Toot Tootsie  Goodbye

4. That's Gratitude

5. Somebody Else Not Me

6. It'll Get Worse

1. When Your Guy Has Gone

2. Drunk With Love

3. Changeable You

4. I Ain't Got Nobody

5. Nobody

6. Runnin' Wild

           7. When Your Guy Has Gone

Pearl Bailey

 Things that record company's do to sell their products...here's one that had a go by putting provocative signs on the cover...note "Restricted From Air Play".....date of release 1966 would have thought by then the "Victorian Era" had gone!!!....Back to the contents of the L/P it is songs that Pearl was singing in her nightclub act nothing "Smutty" or swearing just Pearl Bailey being herself...Track one is the suspect one the rest are just normal songs....

1. She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor
2. Josephine
3. To Keep my Love Alive
4. I Want A Man 
5. Let's Do It

1. The Physician
2. Legalize My Name
3. Flings
4. You Can Be Replaced
5. I Wanna Get Married

         3. To Keep My Love Alive

Pearl Bailey.

 Now here is a surprise to me that is !... I didn't realise that Pearl had such a good singing voice the other L/P that I have posted of her she more or less talks the songs but this one is a wow!!..she still does her talking on a couple of songs but on the whole its a good set of songs and I don't think I have heard a better version of "Here's That Rainy Day" !!

P.S. This one definatly gets the "Luigi's" seal of approval....anyone who likes classy female singers perfect diction and great arrangments this one is a must !!!

1. Here's That Rainy Day

2. They Long To Be Close To You

3. A House is Not a Home

4. If You Go Away

5. Watch What Happens

1. Supper Time

2. Its Impossible

3. This Is All I Ask

4. I Never Met A Stranger

5. Mama A Rainbow

          1. Here's That Rainy Day