Rosemary Clooney, 16 Most Requested Songs - 46m

Tracks & Durations

1. Come On-A My House	2:02
2. Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciani Piccina)	2:19
3. Hey There	3:02
4. Be My Life's Companion	2:23
5. Tenderly	3:31
6. Mixed Emotions	3:12
7. Mambo Italiano	2:33
8. You'll Never Know	3:11
9. When You Wish Upon a Star	3:09
10. Half As Much	2:49
11. This Ole House	2:24
12. I Could Have Danced All Night	2:27
13. It Might As Well Be Spring	3:16
14. In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening	3:03
15. Blues in the Night	3:38
16. Too Young	2:53

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Review

This compilation features a lot of Rosemary Clooney's early novelty-ish songs ("Mambo Italiano" is so dumb that it's enjoyable) but also plenty of her signature ballads. The contrast can be jarring. Between "Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciani Piccina)" and the following track, "Hey There," we hear two completely different singers. (Of course the songs themselves might as well be from different planets.) It's the Clooney we hear on "Hey There" who's the best known now: the sultry interpreter of love songs. But Clooney also had an imperial grip on midtempo numbers, as her assured performance on "Be My Life's Companion" shows. This CD is a good starting point (at a budget price) for those who want a basic overview of Clooney's career; those further along the path might want to look into a couple of the albums she recorded with Nelson Riddle: 1965's masterpiece of longing Love, or 1961's brassy, upbeat Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle!. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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