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Mae West:
Come Up And See Me Sometime |
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The archetypal blonde bombshell of the silver screen, the legendary Mae West(1892-1980)’s outrageously larger than life personality still resonates decades after her Hollywood heyday of the Thirties. Her wisecracks and epigrams are as widely quoted as any by Oscar Wilde (e.g. Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?), and her very name conjures up vivid images of the ultimate sex symbol, albeit one with the rare ability to debunk her own self-created image. She wrote most of her own stage plays and film scripts, which bulge with double meanings.
Come Up And See Me Sometime (her famous invitation) is a superb summary of her recorded legacy. There are the six studio sides from her 1933 films She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel (A Guy What Takes His Time), then a ripely evocative sequence of 12 perhaps less-than-hi-fi but hugely entertaining numbers from the original soundtracks of five of her popular 30s films. These include a quartet from Belle Of The Nineties backed by no less than Duke Ellington & his Orchestra (My Old Flame, Troubled Waters). Rounding out the rounded portrait are eight 1947 studio tracks (Frankie And Johnny, Imaginary Love) and four from 1954 with Sy Oliver’s orchestra (I’m In The Mood For Love, If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight) - not otherwise available. |
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A Guy What Takes His Time {From She Done Him Wrong}
Easy Rider (I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone) {From She Done Him Wrong}
I'm No Angel {From I'm No Angel}
I Found a New Way to Go to Town {From I'm No Angel}
They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk {From I'm No Angel}
I Want You, I Need You {From I'm No Angel}
When a St. Louis Woman Comes Down to New Orleans {From Belle of the Nineties}
My Old Flame {From Belle of the Nineties}
Memphis Blues {From Belle of the Nineties}
Troubled Waters {From Belle of the Nineties}
He's a Bad Man {From Goin' to Town}
Now I'm a Lady {From Goin' to Town}
I'm an Occidnetal Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love {From Klondike Annie}
Mister Deep Blue Sea {From Klondike Annie}
Little Bar Butterfly {From Klondike Annie}
On a Typical Tropical Night {From Go West, Young Man}
I Was Saying to the Moon {From Go West, Young Man}
Willie of the Valley {From My Little Chickadee}
Come Up and See Me Sometime {From Take a Chance}
Frankie and Johnny
That's All, Brothers, That's All
Imaginary Love
My Man Friday
Pardon Me for Loving and Running
Put It off Until Tomorrow
Slow Down
I'm in the Mood for Love {From Every Night at Eight}
Love Is the Greatest Thing
If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight
All of Me {From Careless Lady} |
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ASL - ASV Living Era |
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5604 |
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