Cleo Laine...Live At Carnegie Hall.

The great Cleo Laine doing her stuff at The Carnegie Hall and its great !!

         1. I Know Where I'm Going / Music

Cleo Laine.

 I wonder if this one is going to upset the "Shakespeare" purists....like the film that is out "Anonymous".....I don't think the "Jazz" purists will be bothered !!..This was released in 1964 so it has had over 40 years for people to think about it !!....Getting back to "Cleo" she does a great job and if you are like me ...likes Shakespeare and Jazz its Cooooooool !!

 1. If Music Be The Food Of Love
2. O Mistress Mine
3. Duet Of Sonnets
4. Winter
5.My Love Is As A Fever
6. It Was A Lover And His Lass
7. Dunsinae Blues

1. Take All My Loves
2. Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind
3. Shall I Compare Thee
4. Witches Fair And Foul
5. Fear No More
6. Sigh No More
7. The Compleat Works

              6. It Was A Lover And His Lass

Cleo Laine

Here's a great L/P from one of my favourite singers from 1968 !

Dame Cleo Laine DBE (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves. Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth.

Laine did not take up singing professionally until her mid-twenties. Her early influences as a singer were Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland and Lena Horne. She auditioned successfully, at the age of 24, for John Dankworth's small group, the Dankworth Seven, and later his orchestra, with which she performed until 1958. Dankworth and Laine married that year....She had two major recording successes. "You'll Answer to Me" reached the British Top 10 while Laine was "prima donna" in the 1961 Edinburgh Festival production of Kurt Weill's opera/ballet The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. In 1964 her Shakespeare and All that Jazz album with Dankworth was well received. 

She played Julie La Verne in Wendy Toye's production of Show Boat at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1971. Show Boat had its longest run to date in that London season with 910 performances staged. 

Laine's international activities began in 1972, with a successful first tour of Australia. Shortly afterwards, her career in the United States was launched with a concert at New York's Lincoln Center, followed in 1973 by the first of many Carnegie Hall appearances.

In May 1992, Laine appeared with Frank Sinatra for a week of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In the 1997 New Year's Honours list, Laine became a Dame Commander, and she was appointed Dame Cleo Laine DBE. In the 2006 New Year's Honours list, her husband was made a knight bachelor, becoming Sir John Dankworth. They were one of the few couples where both partners held their titles in their own right and the only couple in jazz to be thus recognised.

( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

And I believe that she is still with us at the great cool age of 96 years young !!!

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo

2. Oh lady be Good

3. Perdido

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Tea For Two

6. On a Slow Boat To China

7. If We Lived On Top Of A Mountain

1. Remind Me

2. Song Without Words

3. They Say Its Wonderful

4. Easy Street

5. Who Walks In When I Walk Out 

6. Sure As You Were Born

           6. On A Slow Boat To China

Cleo Laine

This is one of Cleo's best L/Ps...she sings all of the tracks with no vocal gymnastics just a great voice singing some classic songs....with a good solid band behind her she swings as only she can...recorded in 1962 with "Johnny Keating Orch"!!!!....CLASSIC !!!!!

1. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
2. I Don't Know Why
3. I Want To Be Happy
4. I Think Of You
5. I Can Dream Can't I
6. All About Me

1. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
2. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
3. I'm A Dreamer Aren't We All
4. I'm Just Wild About Harry
5. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
6. I'll Be Around / All About Me

      5. I Can Dream Can't I.

Cleo Laine

Now we have the very distinctive voice of one of England's great "Jazz" singers ....It seems that this was recorded in USA but this L/P is a "Canadian " release !!...thanks John for this not heard it before !!

1. All In Love Is Fair
2. Skip A Long Sam 
3. Send In The Clowns
4. The Least You Can Do Is The Best You Can
5. They Needed Each Other

1. I Loves You Porgy
2. Until Its time for You To Go
3. Life Is a Wheel
4. The Summer Knows
5. A Beautiful Thing

  03. Send In The Clowns.mp3