Artist Name: Dick Haymes
Title: Serenade
Record Label: Decca
Catalog Number: DL 5341
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1951
Genre: Traditional Pop
TRACKLISTING:
A-Side
A1 It Might As Well Be Spring
A2 It's A Grand Night For Singing
A3 It's Magic
A4 Searching Wind
B-Side
B1 When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love
B2 My Future Just Passed
B3 Some Hearts Sing
B4 Our Waltz
CREDITS:
Orchestra Directed By: Earle Hagen (tracks: A2, B3)
Chorus Directed By: Earle Hagen (track: A2)
Vocal Trio: Les Paul Trio (track: B2)
COMPANIES:
Manufactured By: Decca Records, Inc.
MATRIX NUMBERS:
A side center label: MG 2106
B side center label: MG 2107
A side run-out stamped: MG2106T2 3
B side run-out stamped: MG2107T2 3
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Copyright 1951, Decca Records, Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
Printed in U.S.A.
Made in U.S.A.
Printed in U.S.A.
LINER NOTES:
About the songs . . .
The melodic tones of Dick Haymes' resonant baritone voice
have long created a sonorous setting of romance around every tune he has sung,
He is endowed with that ease of interpretation a casual flowing style, and a
pure lyrical charm which have made favorites of "It's A Grand Night for
Singing" and "It Might As Well be Spring," songs he made famous
in “State Fair.“ In this collection. Dick combines the warmth of these melodies
and others such as "Our Waltz" and "It's Magic" with the
rollicking good humor of “When I'm not Near the Girl I Love" and brings to
each listener a "Serenade" to be remembered.
About Dick Haymes . .
.
Topnotchers in any field have in common the ability to
convey on impression of effortless ease, to make their skill seem commonplace.
Dick Haymes has that ability - the kind of style that leads his listeners to
believe they could chime right in and duplicate his tonal quality and his
interpretive expression. But, it Dick's song delivery makes you say to yourself
"I could do that, too,” don't fall into the error at thinking it's quite
as easy as it sounds!
Dick had on early lead on the average vocal aspirant. His
mother, Marguerite Haymes, was a well-known concert singer. veteran of many
successful world tours. Once she had satisfied herself that her youngster had
the necessary natural vocal equipment, he became her first and foremost pupil.
By the time he was sixteen, the quality of Dick's voice and his mastery of
technique were such that he attracted the attention of Johnny Johnson, whose
band was playing at a Monmouth, New
Jersey, resort hotel where Dick was having fun in an
amateur musical production. Johnny offered the sixteen-year-old the singing
spot with his orchestra for the remainder of the summer season. Dick accepted
and thereby became the youngest band vocalist in the United States. But when school
hells rang again in the fall he had to be content to step out of
"professional" ranks to organize his own high school orchestra.
Finishing school, Dick headed for California and a variety of jobs, including
movie extra, horse-opera bit player, radio singer, deep-sea fishing guide,
bandleader. and songwriter. He was no world-healer in any of these categories
but, as Dick himself puts it: "I can honestly say I don't know whether my
successes or my failures have made me what I am today." In I939, Dick
decided to shower New York City
with the fruits of his songwriting labors. He headed East and approached
trumpeter Harry James. Harry's reactions were swift: "Your songs are
lousy." he grinned, "But I'll buy that voice of yours."
From that time, Haymes went on up the ladder, rung by rung,
success after success. He sang with James, with Benny Goodman, and Tommy
Dorsey. In 1942, he got his chance in Hollywood
with "DuBarry Was A Lady." After a couple of minor parts, in which
his personality registered as strikingly as did his voice. Dick was given the
lead in "Where Irish Eyes Are Smiling." He's been starred by
Twentieth ever since - in "Diamond Horseshoe," and then in "State
Fair," one of the most successful films of I945 and, incidentally, one of
Decca's most successful albums, with Dick singing the grand Rodgers-Hammerstein
tunes from the picture. Next came the hit movie "Do You Love Me,"
followed by "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," and "Carnival In Costa
Rica,” among others. He starred in night clubs and recorded for Decca; his
records sold so widely that Haymes won the title "King of the Juke
Boxes." In "Diamond Horseshoe" Haymes played opposite his former
boss's lovely wife and wired Harry James: "Is it true that you married my
best girl, Betty Grable?" In "Do You Love Me" he played the part
of a crooner - a crooner who sings with Harry James's band! His roles
multiplied in bewildering progression. And the chapters of the Haymes success
story are still at the beginning of the book.
This Decca Long Play Microgroove Unbreakable Record can be
played only on 33 ⅓ RPM instruments. For maximum protection it should be kept
in this envelope, away from heat.
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