Maxine Sullivan was a stylish and versatile jazz and big band singer who was active in music for over half a century into the 1980s but whose most important recordings were during the first decade or so of her career from the late '30s through the 1940s. She came to the fore as vocalist with Claude Thornhill's innovative orchestra, and had a surprise hit with a version of the traditional song "Loch Lomond" which established a professional style and profile which enabled her to work as a solo artist, accompanied not only by Thornhill but by some of the other important names of that era, including John Kirby, Frankie Newton, Charlie Shavers, Bobby Hackett, Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and Ellis Larkins. This excellent-value 75-track 3-CD set comprises a significant proportion of her recordings from these years as she recorded for the Vocalion, Brunswick, Victor, Bluebird, Decca, Davis, Musicraft, DeLuxe, International and Apollo labels, encompassing performances across the jazz spectrum from big band to sessions in an intimate trio environment, as well as sophisticated renditions of pop songs that place her alongside some of the finest song interpreters of that era. It naturally includes her chart hits "Loch Lomond", "Nice Work If You Can Get It" and "My Ideal". The collection offers a substantial and fairly comprehensive overview of her work during her key formative years, and is also a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for a distinctive and sometimes underestimated talent.

Tracklist:

Stop, You're Breaking My Heart
Gone with the Wind
Loch Lomond
I'm Coming, Virginia
Annie Laurie
Blue Skies
Don't Save Your Love (For a Rainy Day)
Easy to Love
Nice Work If You Can Get It 1
The Folks Who Live on the Hill 1
Darling Nellie Gray 1
It's Wonderful 1
You Went to My Head 1
Dark Eyes 1
A Brown Bird Singing 1
Moments Like This 1
Please Be Kind 1
It Was a Lover and His Lass 1
Spring Is Here 2
Down the Old Ox Road 2
St. Louis Blues 2
L' Amour, Toujours L'amour 2
Night and Day 2
It Ain't Necessarily So 2
Kinda Lonesome 2
Say It with a Kiss 2
I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 2
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes 2
I'm Happy About the Whole Thing 3
Corn Pickin' 3
Jackie Boy 3
Sing Something Simple 3
Turtle Dove 3
Ill Wind 3
The Hour of Parting 3
If I Had a Ribbon Bow 3
Who Is Sylvia ' 3
Molly Malone 3
Barbara Allen 4
That Lonely Tune 4
There I Go 4
The Same Old Story 4
Calm As the Night 4
The Heart You Stole from Me 4
Last Night the Nightingale Woke Me 4
You Mean So Much to Me 4
Midnight 4
What a Diff'rence a Day Made 4
Just Like a Gypsy 5
My Blue Heaven 5
Kentucky Babe 5
Ma Curly Headed Baby 5
When Your Lover Has Gone 5
My Ideal 5
Beside the River Clyde 5
How Do I Know It's Real' 5
Behavin' Myself for You 5
I Carry the Torch for You 5
The Story of Our Love Affair 6
Confession Is Good for the Soul 6
This Heart of Mine 6
Every Time We Say Goodbye 6
I'm the Caring Kind 6
Looking for a Boy 6
Mad About the Boy 6
I Must Have That Man 6
I Can't Get Started 6
Skylark 6
Come Rain or Come Shine 7
Miss Otis Regrets 7
Takin' My Time 7
Summertime 7
Legalize My Name 7
Cry, Buttercup, Cry 7
Restless

UPC: 824046908522
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 9.13.19
Format: CD

Maxine Sullivan - Collection 1937-49 (CD)