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List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £10.23
Artist:
Martha Tilton
 PERFECT TRIBUTE TO "LILTIN'" TILTON'S EARLY SUCCESS, 2007-06-05
Martha Tilton commenced her high-profile big-band singing career with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, moving two years later to the Benny Goodman Orchestra with whom she made a few recordings. However, this double-disc of forty-nine tracks dedicated to the singer, trawls broadcast material with the advantage of hearing many popular songs Martha never committed to shellac with Benny and held together with a degree of spontaneity only possible via radio performance even though quick fades ensure the applause does not linger too long. At the time, all-male big band musicians needed to enlist the services of a glamorous girl singer in order to add an element of attraction to the band-stand and as such Martha had to adhere to arrangements which often favoured the musicians rather than her vocal talent!
Known as the "Liltin' Miss Tilton" Martha certainly held her own against the breezy Goodman style and the bevy of attractive songbirds who performed with other bands at that time. Casting pure imagination aside there's actually no need for such visual stimulus to enjoy the vocal charms of this perky vocalist who not only sang with vivacity but could imbue any tender ballad with emotion.
CD 1 offers twenty-five such treasures from the period 1937- 1939 with I USED TO BE COLOUR BLIND, MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY, DEEP PURPLE and GOODNIGHT MY LOVE, topped off with Martha's signature big hit AND THE ANGELS SING. Of particular interest historically is JEEPERS CREEPERS on which Martha shares vocal company with Johnny Mercer and Billie Holiday whilst two versions of the upbeat COULD BE find Mercer and Goodman joining the act for similar support.
The second disc extracts broadcast from the Madhattan Room, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York over a period of three months in late 1937 with topical novelty numbers like I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MO' OF SAMOA, BOB WHITE and I WANNA BE IN WINCHELL'S COLUMN nicely balanced between songs frequently favoured by all big bands at the time with THE MOON GOT IN MY EYES, ME, MYSELF AND I, YOURS AND MINE and AFRAID TO DREAM typical of such choices but unlike THE LADY IS A TRAMP, ONCE IN A WHILE and IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT not destined to become standards.
Transferred from acetate copies and taking into account primitive recording techniques of the time, these recordings sound splendidly clear and clean. Even listening through headphones failed to reveal distortion or drop-out so together with informative notes, broadcast dates and band personnel details; this is a timely tribute to Martha who died in December 2006 aged ninety-one. She later moved on from band singer to solo artiste at Capitol plus sporadic ghost voice cover for non-singing Hollywood stars besides occasionally appearing on the silver screen but this compilation is the perfect homage to her early success.
List Price: £8.99
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Artist:
Martha Tilton
 A Superb Tribute, 2007-06-29
This Living Era compilation spans the years 1937-1955, and was issued as a tribute to the singer, who died last year. Whether by accident or design, Goodman had a great roster of female singers, and it was the title song of this compilation which identified Martha Tilton in the public consciousness as one of the most memorable. She had a relaxed singing style, rather like her fellow Texan Jack Teagarden, lagging slightly behind the beat but melding perfectly with the accompaniment. Unlike some female singers where listener fatigue sets in rapidly, her voice goes in the ear like honey (to modify a phrase from Eddie Condon). In addition to the ten Goodman tracks, a further fourteen have been selected with loving care, and the rare Coral recording of "Misirlou" deserves special mention. To sum up, this is a delightful package, embellished with an excellent liner note by trumpeter Digby Fairweather, which can be recommended without reservation.
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Artist:
Martha Tilton
Essential for 1940's pop fans, 2002-11-16
Martha was an exceptionally talented singer of the 1940's who never achieved what her talent deserved. Unfortunately for her (but fortunately for us), there were a lot of other talented ladies around at the same time - Jo Stafford, Doris Day, Maggie Whiting and Dinah Shore among them - equally capable of singing the same songs.Martha was more beautiful than any of them, and if the television age had begun then, that might have helped her. As it was, Martha still had a reasonably successful career without ever reaching the top rank. This collection contains everything she recorded for Capitol, which was the only label on which she was successful as a solo singer. Included here are her American top ten hits (I'll walk alone, I should care, Stranger in town, How are things in Glocca Morra, That's my desire, I wonder I wonder I wonder) and her lesser American hits (Texas polka and That's gratitude). Some of these were actually double-sided hits. Before Martha signed for Capitol, she spent some time with Benny Goodman's band. Her biggest hit as lead singer with his band was And the angels cried, which spent five weeks at number one in 1939 in America. A solo re-recording of that song forms the last track of CD 2. The remainining tracks include Martha's excellent versions of songs of the day. I particularly like her cover of You make me feel so young, very bright and breezy. In her clear soprano, Martha could sing the ballads equally as well as the upbeat songs. The backing music varied from typical pop of the day, to more jazzy stylings, but Martha handled it all with ease. In short, Martha was as good as any of her contemporaries, but she never had that really big solo hit (her best peaked at number four). So, she faded into obscurity, but lived a good life thereafter, and contributed comments to the liner notes for this compilation. If 1940's pop music appeals to you, do not ignore Martha - her music is sensational.
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