JULIE LONDON "LONELY GIRL" ORIG. MONO GREEN LABEL- NM- LIBERTY#3012 (1956 )HEAR

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ARTIST:JULIE LONDON

TITLE: "LONELY GIRL"
WHAT A COVER!

The most sensual voice in the history of jazz!!

Original Mono pressing of the sultry singer's 1956 album. Yes, Julie London is the girl who single handededly launched the Torch Singer genre....and opened the door for every imperfect but sexy vocalist since. The most remarkable thing about Julie London is remarkable indeed: that she used her erotic persona not so much to interpret songs as to change the nature of them to become something other than when sung by anyone else. She used her breathy, sexy, sultry voice not to sing a version of a song that could compete with someone else's on a scale of good to better to best, but to change it's meaning. This, her second album, carries on from where her first left off...soft eroticism and single entendre...songs of yearning and loneliness in Julie's own bedroom whisper...just try to resist! One of the most erotic albums of all time!

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, DEEP GROOVE

Country: US

Released: 1956

Genre: JAZZY POP

Style: Vocal

Tracklist

A1     Lonely Girl         2:31

A2     Fools Rush In   2:07

A3     Moments Like This    2:38

A4     I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City        2:33

A5     It's The Talk Of The Town 2:35

A6     What'll I Do        2:02

B1     When Your Lover Has Gone       1:54

B2     Don't Take Your Love From Me 2:43

B3     Where Or When          2:35

B4     All Alone   1:48

B5     Mean To Me       2:09

B6     How Deep Is The Ocean    2:10

B7     Remember         1:47

Credits

Engineer – John Neal

Guitar – Al Viola

Photography By – Ray Jones

Producer – Bobby Troup

Vocals – Julie London

Notes

Recorded in Hollywood during April of 1955.

Spectra-Sonic-Sound

[RIAA Curve]

© Liberty Records, Inc., Hollywood, California, U.S.A 

Notes

First press with green labels.

VINYL CONDITION: NM!...I CLEANED IT ONLY SUPERFICIALLY SO IF YOU HEAR ANY MINIMAL CLICK IT WILL DISSAPEAR WITH A DEEPER CLEANING....I JUST SCRATCHED ONE WITH A CARDBOARD PARTICLE EMBEDDED IN MY CAMEL HAIR BRUSH!!...NO MARKS NOTICED!

LABELS CONDITION:NM!

COVER CONDITION: NM!!!!!  SEE SCAN! WITH LIBERTY INNER SLEEVE!

REMARKS: ORIGINAL!!!!!

THIS LP DESERVES THE FOLLOWING REVIEW:

Review by J.R. SPENCER:

“I am the author of the first book to celebrate Julie London entitled: Lady Liberty--The Definitive Julie London Handbook which was released here on Amazon in November 2013. I'd thought I write a review of this album, as I sometimes see misinformation on Julie's albums.

LONELY GIRL is Julie's second album for Liberty Records released in 1956 and featuring jazz legend Al Viola on guitar. As a jazz pianist/vocalist myself I have worked with Al Viola personally in Southern California, and interviewed him for my book. In my interview with Al, Al discussed Julie (the person, behind the voice) and specifically recording the album Julie.. At Home.

Julie's 2nd husband Bobby Troup produced the album and also wrote the title track "Lonely Girl". With the success of her first album for Liberty Records, Julie is Her Name Volume I, Liberty capitalized on Julie's intimate voice, and her sensual vulnerability. Julie specifically requested sad torch songs of composer Irving Berlin and sings 3 songs of Berlin on the album: "What'll I Do", "How Deep Is the Ocean" and "Remember" My personal favorite track is "Fools Rush In". Ray Jones took the cover photo of Julie wearing a strapless blue/jade gown.

Julie signature sound of cool jazz, intimate torch song would set the place for many artist to copy her. Al used a gut-string Spanish guitar for tracks on this album compared to the electric guitar of Barney Kessel on Julie is Her Name.

The original liner notes mention Julie's clear diction, her exquisite phrasing, simplicity and impeccable intonation as well as her success in movies, specifically featured in the film noir classic "The Red House".

This is a truly beautiful album, as you can tell from all the 5 star reviews, and if you are a Julie fan a must have! This album was very personal for Julie personally, she had suffered greatly in her youth, born to poor vaudeville parents in Santa Rosa, CA. She was also in the mists of a terrible divorce from actor/director Jack Webb, and though she was dating Bobby, they had a very long courtship and did not marry till 1959.

Julie always felt safe in the studio, or in intimate settings but terrified in large performance venues. You hear her sweet vulnerability in her voice and specifically the melancholia on Lonely Girl. She had already made a success from her previous album and Billboard named her the most popular female vocalist of 1955, 1956, and 1957. During her busying recording and performance schedule, she continued to raise her two daughters Stacy and Lisa from Jack Webb, and make movies.

She was first and foremost a loving mother, and felt uncomfortable with the sex kitten pin up role, but she was passionate about cool jazz and torch song, and you can tell she lived and breathed these songs on this album. Many people say: "It sounds she is singing only for me."

Wishing all the Julie fans a beautiful holiday season, and if you are interested in exploring Julie London more. .be sure to check out my book "Lady Liberty: The Definitive Julie London Handbook" which contains over 300 rare photos, discography, filmography, articles and a lot of great surprises.

GENRE: JAZZ

STYLE: POP JAZZ

Lonely Girl is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3012 as a monophonic recording in 1956, and later in stereo under catalog number LST-7029 in 1959….The album was reissued, combined with the 1957 Julie London album Make Love to Me, in compact disc form on January 28, 2003 by EMI.

FOR MORE INFO GO TO: Londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com

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(LP) There will be some blemishes, and some few scratches. They should not be at the feel-able stage though. There could be a skip or repeat, but only one or two at most. More often the deeper scratches will cause more frequent and prolonged surface noise. There may be some warping but it will not cause the needle to jump. Chances are there will be spindle marks. A VG/VG- record will obviously have been played and occasionally handled roughly by the original owner.

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