Moonlight Becomes You: The Songs of Jimmy Van Heusen

RELEASE
May 23, 2000
LABEL
ASV/Living Era
GENRES
Vocal Music, Show Tunes, Vocal Pop, Big Band, Swing, Classic Female Blues, Cast Recordings, Traditional Pop, Standards, Vocal Jazz

Album Review

This collection includes over 20 performances of songs penned by legendary pop composer Jimmy Van Heusen. Most of the included songs were co-written with Van Heusen's songwriting partner, lyricist Johnny Burke, as well as with previous partner Eddie De Lange. Moonlight Becomes You: Songs of Jimmy Van Heusen compiles the original (mono) recordings of Van Heusen's biggest hits as performed by some of the biggest names of the time, including "It's the Dreamer in Me" by Helen Humes with Harry James and his orchestra; the million-seller "Swinging on a Star," sung by Bing Crosby in the Academy Award-winning movie Going My Way; "Like Someone in Love," also performed by Bing Crosby; and "Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk)," which finds Crosby in a duet with Judy Garland. Frank Sinatra appears several times, while Dinah Shore also performs a couple of numbers, including "Personality." Other included performers are such legendary, influential artists as Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and more. Finally, Van Heusen admirer Frank Sinatra closes the collection with his performance of "But Beautiful."
Joslyn Layne, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Moonlight Becomes You
  2. It's the Dreamer in Me
  3. Deep in a Dream
  4. Good for Nothin' But Love
  5. Heaven Can Wait
  6. Blue Rain
  7. Darn That Dream
  8. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  9. Imagination
  10. Shake Down the Stars
  11. All This and Heaven Too
  12. It's Always You
  13. Sunday, Monday or Always
  14. If You Please
  15. It Could Happen to You
  16. His Rocking Horse Ran Away
  17. Swinging on a Star
  18. Sleigh Ride in July
  19. Like Someone in Love
  20. A Friend of Yours
  21. Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk)
  22. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
  23. Aren't You Glad You're You
  24. Personality
  25. But Beautiful