Young and charming Joanie Sommers was still a teenager when she signed for Warner Bros Records. It was 1959, the company was newly-formed and Joanie was barely 19, but she emerged, in the words of herrecord company, as the greatest singing discovery in the last fifteen years. Her swinging debut albumPositively the Most!included a brace of standards that she wrapped up in winning style, and it led her to start out on the road to singing stardom. The following years brought a remarkable series of equally successful ventures, among them a number of singles and several LPs, including two excellent jazz-oriented albums, The Voice of the Sixties! and For Those Who Think Young, both recorded in 1961.
On these Warner Bros albums she is as good on her rhythm tunes as she is on her warm readings of ballads. Efectively supported by orchestras conducted by some of the most in-demand Hollywood arrangersMarty Paich, Tommy Oliver, Neal Hefti, and Bob Florenceand featuring such stellar soloists as Art Pepper, Jack Sheldon, Frank Rosolino, and Bud Shank, she combined youthful vitality, cool and fiery, with a tasteful vocal form whose broad appeal embraced both jazz and hip pop fans alike
CD 1
01. I Like the Likes of You (Harburg-Duke) 2:22
02. Im Beginning to See the Light (James-Ellington-Hodges-George) 2:11
03. Whats New? (Burke-Haggart) 2:42
04. Too Young for the Blues (Jones-Meyer) 2:58
05. That Old Devil Moon (Harburg-Lane) 2:11
06. It Might as Well Be Spring (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 3:01
07. Something I Dreamed Last Night (Yellen-Magidson-Fain) 3:30
08. Heart and Soul (Loesser-Carmichael) 3:53
09. My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Cole Porter) 2:16
10. Just Squeeze Me (Gaines-Ellington) 3:30
11. Oh, But I Do! (Robin-Schwartz) 2:41
12. So In Love (Cole Porter) 2:20
13. The Best Thing for You (Irving Berlin) 1:56
14. Nobody Else But Me (Kern-Hammerstein II) 2:16
15. Arent You Glad Youre You (Van Heusen-Burke) 2:04
16. Let There Be Love (Grant-Rand) 2:26
17. I Concentrate On You (Cole Porter) 2:42
18. For All We Know (Lewis-Coots) 3:19
19. This Cant Be Love (Rodgers-Hart) 2:06
20. Im Old Fashioned (Kern-Mercer) 2:02
21. Cherokee (Ray Noble) 3:06
CD 2
01. Why Try to Change Me Now (Coleman-McCarthy) 3:08
02. A Wonderful Guy (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 2:14
03. This Heart of Mine (Warren-Freed) 3:41
04. Seems Like Long, Long Ago (Sy Oliver) 1:34 *
05. Makin Whoopee (Kahn-Donaldson) 3:02 *
06. Whats Wrong with Me (Richard Adler) 2:51 *
07. A Lot of Livin to Do (Adams-Strouse) 2:50
08. Out of This World (Arlen-Mercer) 3:22
09. Round Midnight (Hanighen-Williams-Monk) 3:48
10. Hey! Jealous Lover (Cahn-Twomey-Walker) 2:27
11. Hard Hearted Hannah (Yellen-Ager-Bigelow-Bates) 2:43
12. Blues in the Night (Arlen-Mercer) 3:05
13. I Feel a Song Comin On (Fields-McHugh-Oppenheimer) 2:24
14. You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (Brooks-Russell) 2:00
15. My Ship (Weill-Gershwin) 4:29
16. Evrything Ive Got (Rodgers-Hart) 2:23
17. Why Shouldnt I? (Cole Porter) 3:44
18. I Feel Pretty (Bernstein-Sondheim) 2:21
About Joanie Sommers
Joanie Sommers scored her biggest chart success with "Johnny Get Angry" in 1962. The single, her second solo release, peaked at the number seven spot and charted for more than two months. Her first solo record, "One Boy," was a number from the musical Bye Bye Birdie and only hit number 54 in 1960. She continued to record through the decade, but never had another winner that rose as high on the charts as "Johnny Get Angry." She later achieved a different kind of success in commercials with several different jingles that she sang for Pepsi during the '60s and again two decades later. (The title of one of her later albums, Come Alive, was even derived from one of the Pepsi ad campaigns.) Sommers, whose real name is Joan Drost, was born in New York but grew up in California. During her high school and college years, she sang in school bands. She was 18 years old when Warner Bros. signed her to a contract in 1959 and paired her with Edd Byrnes on one of his singles. She also had a small role in 77 Sunset Strip, the television series that featured Byrnes in the role of Kookie. In addition, she sang on Byrnes' "I Don't Dig You" and "Hot Rock," which appeared on one of his albums. Sommers released an album of her own, the jazz-oriented Positively the Most, and it helped establish her presence in easy listening and adult circles. Fans and critics often cite her 1965 album, Softly the Brazilian Sound, as one of her best efforts.
In 1966, the singer signed with Columbia Records. One of her following recordings was a version of "Alfie," which both Cher and Dionne Warwick also covered it. While Sommers' version didn't get the notice that the other two did, she had the satisfaction of placing in the Top Ten in the easy listening category. She also appeared in On the Flip Side, a television special that starred Rick Nelson. The show's soundtrack contains two versions of "Try to See It My Way," one of which is a duet with Nelson while the other is a Sommers solo. The singer, married with three children, stepped out of the spotlight as the '70s approached. Before retiring, she made numerous television appearances on the shows of Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Dean Martin, Mike Douglas, Bobby Darin, and others. Sommers started singing and making appearances again during the '80s. ~ Linda Seida

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