Helen Humes - Songs I Like To Sing!

 

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series continues in 2024!

Twelve standout albums from the Contemporary Records catalog reissued on 180-gram vinyl

Titles featuring Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Helen Humes, Ben Webster and many more!

Mastered AAA by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes

180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!

Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets

Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds

Continuing Craft Recordings' celebration of seminal jazz artists from Contemporary Records

Helen Humes takes on the standards on her second Contemporary Records release, Songs I Like to Sing! The Louisville native got her start as a jazz and blues vocalist — including a stretch with the Count Basie Orchestra — but went on to define the sound of swing music. Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather once remarked, "No other singer had a comparable mastery of both ballads and blues." Her silken-voiced renditions of "If I Could Be With You" and "You're Driving Me Crazy" at once exude wistfulness, but mostly joy. With Hume backed by a Dream Team of musicians, the album features a wealth of gold-standard saxophonists such as Ben Webster, Teddy Edwards, and Art Pepper.

This new edition released as part of the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

 

If I Could Be With You

Don't Worry 'Bout Me

Mean To Me

Every Now And Then

I Want A Roof Over My Head

St. Louis Bles

You're Driving Me Crazy

My Old Flame

Millon Dollar Secret

Love Me Or Leave Me

Imagination

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

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