I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues: The Eileen Farrell Album

Track Listings

1. Blues in the Night

2. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)

3. Dreamy

4. Looking for a Boy

5. Supper Time

6. On the Sunny Side of the Street

7. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

8. Ten Cents a Dance

9. Somebody Loves Me

10. September Song

11. I'm Old Fashioned

12. Solitaire (The Game of Love)

13. To Be in Love

14. My Funny Valentine

15. Ev'ry Time

16. Foggy Day

17. Second Time Around

18. Taking a Chance on Love

19. Glad to Be Unhappy

20. He Was Too Good to Me

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Blues in the Night
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
Dreamy
Looking for a Boy
Supper Time
On the Sunny Side of the Street
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Ten Cents a Dance
Somebody Loves Me
September Song
I'm Old Fashioned
Solitaire (The Game of Love)
To Be in Love
My Funny Valentine
Ev'ry Time
Foggy Day
Second Time Around
Taking a Chance on Love
Glad to Be Unhappy
He Was Too Good to Me
Old Devil Moon
Fly Me to the Moon
Man I Love
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Customer Reviews:

This Is My Theme Song.......2007-01-04

When "I Gotta Right To Sing the Blues" first came out, I was already a fan. Farrell's career in radio and opera was flourishing, and this album was just right for a fledgling singer, myself. Many years and miles later I discovered that most of my precious LP collection had been lost along the way. Imagine my joy to discover Amazon's CDs. Now I can play Eileen whenever I wish - singing with her, of course. I never became a hit songstress, but my soul is very happy to have her voice in my world again. I am saving up to complete my collection of her torch songs, ballads and opera.

The best female singer of the 20th century.......2003-01-12

Forget Barbra. Forget Celine. Eileen Farrell puts them both in the shade. Her tone is gorgeous, her rhythms are spot-on, her diction is crisp, her interpretations are sly, sexy, enticing. As other reviews here have mentioned, Farrell was also a world-class opera singer who brought her enormous artistry to the American popular song. Rudolf Bing, then the general director of the Metropolitan Opera, looked down on her pop singing, but that didn't stop her. She sang well into her sixties (maybe beyond...I'm not sure), with the same style and grace you hear in these recordings. Eileen Farrell died recently, so we won't hear the likes of this voice again. Treasure this one.

Absolutely Stunning. A Must-Have!.......2003-01-10

Any fan of the late dramatic soprano's operatic artistry should also have this album to demonstrate how equally adept she was in the realm of classic pop music. You will flabbergast your friends by switching from, say, Verdi's "Ernani, Involami" to "Sunny Side of the Street" (both recorded in 1959), because there is no way someone not in-the-know can tell they are the same artist. On this album she simply sounds like a incredibly versatile big-band singer, not an opera singer who is slumming out her repertoire....

Indispensable. A knockout!.......2002-05-02

The first time you hear this CD, you'll probably be most struck by the first track - a beautiful, heartbreaking, even overwhelming rendition of "Blues in the Night" - as glorious a celebration of female pop vocal prowess as has ever been recorded by anyone, anywhere. But as you continue to listen to and live with "The Eileen Farrell Album", you'll discover that that "Blues in the Night" is merely the first among equals in what is actually an entire (generous) CD's worth of dynamite covers that function almost as reinventions of a treasury of pop and jazz standards: Basically, every track is a showstopper.
P>The care that all these artists took to make every moment count is evident throughout the album: Nothing is taken for granted; every song has been rethought, and many are given distinctive interpretations that make the often thrice-familiar numbers seem fresh and even new. Never have you heard "My Funny Valentine" (here done with unique bluesy embellishment) or "The Man I Love" (sung fast, with a bongo accompaniment) done as they are here. But nothing sounds forced or arbitrary; nearly every choice, from the most conventional to the most daring, works.

On almost any other album, any one of these performances (in superbly engineered sound, by the way) would be the high point. Here, the embarrassment of riches is such that you'll find it difficult, in the end, to choose a favorite. My preference? Probably the scintillating, uptempo version of Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer's "I'm Old Fashioned" - the recording, by the way, used in the opening credits of the gay-mobster comedy "Friends and Family".

This CD will make you giddy with delight.

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1. Blues in the Night
2. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
3. Dreamy
4. Looking for a Boy
5. Supper Time
6. On the Sunny Side of the Street
7. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
8. Ten Cents a Dance
9. Somebody Loves Me
10. September Song
11. I'm Old Fashioned
12. Solitaire (The Game of Love)
13. To Be in Love
14. My Funny Valentine
15. Ev'ry Time
16. Foggy Day
17. Second Time Around
18. Taking a Chance on Love
19. Glad to Be Unhappy
20. He Was Too Good to Me