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Album Details: Rarities
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1990
- Label:
- Rca
- UPC:
- 078635233728
Pro Reviews: Rarities
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews This invaluable compilation collects all the recordings made by Fred Astaire, his sister and stage partner Adele Astaire, and his movie partner Ginger Rogers for RCA Victor Records, mostly in the '30s. Although the Astaires had been recording their stage songs in England since 1923, it took them until 1931 to get into an American recording studio, and they did then only because bandleader Leo Reisman was interested in recording numbers from the Broadway revue ~The Band Wagon, in which they were appearing, and he invited them to perform as guest vocalists. With Fred, Reisman cut "I Love Louisa," "New Sun In The Sky" (heard here in the previously unreleased second take), and "White Heat," while both Astaires performed on "Hoops." Also, in an experimental process, the band and the singers recorded two medleys of songs from the show, each running about ten minutes, for release on a ten-inch 33-1/3 r.p.m. record. "I Love Louisa" and "New Sun In The Sky" became Top Ten hits. By 1932, Adele had retired and Fred was appearing by himself in ~Gay Divorce. Reisman again brought him in to record songs from the show, cutting "Night And Day" and "I've Got You On My Mind." The latter charted, while the former became one of the longest running 1 hits of the year. In three sessions in 1933, Reisman used Astaire as the vocalist on four more songs, not ones he was singing onstage: Irving Berlin's "Maybe I Love You Too Much," "My Temptation," "We're In The Money (The Gold Diggers' Song)" from the hit movie Gold Diggers Of 1933, and "A Heart Of Stone." Reisman continued working with Astaire, but since he moved to Brunswick Records (the catalog for which is controlled by Sony), those recordings were unavailable to RCA. In 1938, Ginger Rogers recorded two songs for RCA from the Astaire-Rogers film Carefree, Irving Berlin's "I Used To Be Color Blind" and "The Yam" (heard here in a previously unreleased alternate take). But despite, the implication of the album's cover, these were solo performances; Astaire is not on them. Finally, in 1955, Astaire returned to RCA for a singles session of two songs from his film Daddy Long Legs, both written by Johnny Mercer: "Something's Gotta Give" and "Sluefoot." Put all this together, and you have more than an hour's worth of delightful performances on a well-annotated and presented album. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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Without question, one of the greatest all-around performers in motion picture history, though his vocal skills were among the least of his talents. Indeed, to overstate Astaire's average musical ability (as has become inexplicably common lately among...Full Fred Astaire With Adele Astaire & Ginger Rogers Biography
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