5013929331839

Me On A Carousel

Lita Roza With The Bill Shephe

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Format: CD

Cat No: ACMEM318CD

Release Date:  16 September 2016

Label:  El / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5013929331839

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    Lita Roza's real talent was as a sultry and sophisticated interpreter of romantic ballads; a British Julie London with a touch of Astrud Gilberto.

    A singer of integrity, an artist ahead of her time. A strong woman who could be outspoken in defence of her craft, Lita was a fiercely independent artist who emerged a decade too early. It's ironic that her commercial breakthrough came in March 1953 with Bob Merrill's much-derided 'How Much Is That Doggie in the Window', a novelty ballad that was scarcely representative of her work. Lita had been talked into recording the song and it reached Number One, but she thought it puerile, and resolutely refused to perform it again, in any context, 'I said I would sing it once and only once and then I would never sing it again, and I haven't'.


    Lita served a four year musical apprenticeship from 1950 - on tour and in radio broadcasts - with the Ted Heath Orchestra; her popularity (during the period she topped both The Melody Maker and New Musical Express Polls for Favourite Female Vocalist) made it possible for her to branch out into film and television and she soon found herself fronting her own Saturday night spectacular, the Lita Roza Show, making appearances on Six-Five Special, the programme which introduced skiffle and rock'n'roll to the BBC.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Me on a Carousel
      • 2. That's the Beginning of the End
      • 3. But Beautiful
      • 4. All Alone
      • 5. The Other Woman
      • 6. I'll Never Say Never Again Again
      • 7. Somewhere, Somehow, Someday
      • 8. Not Mine
      • 9. End of a Love Affair
      • 10. Oh Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be
      • 11. Love Can Change the Stars
      • 12. I've Got My Eyes on You
      • 13. As Children Do
      • 14. There's Nothing Rougher Than Love
      • 15. Trust in Me
      • 16. I Close My Eyes
      • 17. This Is No Laughing Matter
      • 18. Paradise
      • 19. Wild Is the Wind
      • 20. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
      • 21. They Say
      • 22. Love Is a Beautiful Stranger (from the Film, Twist of Fate)(1954)
      • 23. Leave Me Alone ("Le Grisbe"(from the Film, Cast a Dark Shadow)(1955)
      • 24. Hey There (You With the Stars in Your Eyes)(from the Pyjama Game)(1955)
      • 25. Jimmy Unkown (1955)
      • 26. Allentown Jail (1959)
      • 27. Once in a While (1959)