Amazon.com: Suddenly There's Gogi Grant: CDs & Vinyl (original) (raw)

This is a straight re-issue of Gogi's debut LP (originally released on the Era label) so although twelve tracks lasting just over half an hours may seem short for a CD, the quality makes up for that. Buddy Bregman directed and arranged the album.

The album is book-ended by Gogi's two early American hits - Suddenly there's a valley and Who are we. The first of these is the one most likely to be remembered now - many other singers recorded it including Jo Stafford, Petula Clark and Lee Lawrance, all of whom had British top twenty hits with the song (Petula made the top ten). Gogi's version didn't chart in Britain. Indeed, her only British hit was Wayward wind (a number one American hit) but it hadn't even been recorded when this album was originally released, although it was soon afterwards.

In between Suddenly there's a valley and Who are we, there are ten excellent interpretations of classic songs including Wrap your troubles in dreams, All of me, I don't want to walk without you, There will never be another you and Love is the sweetest thing.

If you enjoy classic songs sung by the finest torch singers of the fifties such as Jeri Southern, Julie London, June Christy and Peggy Lee, you will also enjoy listening to Gogi Grant. Torch time is generally regarded as Gogi's best original album. I agree, but the others (including this one) are not far behind.