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A native of David City, Nevada, Ruth Etting began her musical career in Chicago where she developed a style that could be said to epitomize the art of the straight and narrow pop vocal, for she never deviated from the melody or the lyrics as written. This places her in a completely different realm from Billie Holiday; Ruth Etting represented the "normal" approach to singing from which Lady Day deviated so wonderfully. As if to demonstrate the case in point, Living Era's tribute to Ruth Etting opens with her 1928 recording of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn's "Love Me or Leave Me," a song that became a jazz standard after Fats Waller recorded it as a stride piano solo in 1929, and underwent remarkable transformations when Billie Holiday and Lester Young reinterpreted it in 1937. A comparison of Etting's and Holiday's approach to the same songs speaks volumes about the parallel arts of jazz and pop singing (examples included here are "Back in Your Own Back Yard," "I'll Get By as Long as I Have You," "Body and Soul," "I'll Never Be the Same" and "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie"). Although remembered as a paragon of the sentimental torch song, Ruth Etting sounded best when delivering pleasantly upbeat numbers like "Button Up Your Overcoat." On this collection, she is backed by excellent jazz musicians like Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, guitarist Eddie Lang, pianists Rube Bloom and Frank Signorelli; trumpeters Charlie Spivak and Manny Klein, and bassman Joe Tarto. Even if she sang like the girl next door, her story reads more like something out of an old Humphrey Bogart movie. During her early days as a Chicago nightclub entertainer, Ruth Etting became the consort and then the wife of mobster Moe "The Gimp" Snyder, a notorious thug who appointed himself as her manager and bulldozed people in the entertainment industry in order to further her career. Throughout the mid-'20s Etting became famous on Broadway, as a radio personality and as Columbia's most popular female recording star. The plot sickened, however, as her few appearances in motion pictures were flummoxed by careless casting and lousy scripts. Her marriage steadily deteriorated under the burden of Snyder's jealous boorishness -- he even gunned down her accompanist Myrl Alderman, who recovered and married Etting after Snyder went to prison. Withdrawing from public scrutiny for a few years, the aging singer attempted a comeback in 1947 and then retired to Colorado where she passed away in 1978. This double-disc portrait of "The Queen of the Torch Singers" proceeds in a more or less chronological manner, from her early recordings made in April of 1926 to her hit records of 1931 and 1932; sweetly stylish stuff presented during the darkest days of the Great Depression. ~ arwulf arwulf

Love Me Or Leave Me is also the title of Living Era’s generous double album of 51 inimitable Ruth Etting performances. No fewer than 37 of them were the equivalent of “chart” hits, including 13 Top Fives. Among the biggest were the poignant Ten Cents A Dance, her Ziegfeld Follies showstopper Shaking The Blues Away, and the Fred Ahlert songs I’ll Get By, Mean To Me and Life Is A Song. And she is heard giving her inimitable treatment to many of the greatest ‘standards’: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Close Your Eyes, I’ll Never Be The Same . . . This last is a prime example of her delightful ‘trademark’ of changing tempo half way through a song, as are Crying For The Carolines, Nevertheless and the irresistible It Was So Beautiful.
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Category Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Vocal, Contemporary Blues, Nostalgia, Jazz Traditional
Label Living Era
Orig Year 2006
All Time Sales Rank   99672  
CD Universe Part number 7224774
Catalog number 2012
Discs 2
Release Date Aug 22, 2006
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo


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Love Me Or Leave Me CD DISC 1:
1.Love Me or Leave Me
2.Lonesome and Sorry
3.But I Do, You Know I Do!
4.'Deed I Do
5.What Do We Do on a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day
6.It All Depends on You
7.I'm Nobody's Baby
8.Sam, The Old Accordion Man
9.Shaking the Blues Away
10.Song Is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On, The
11.Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon
12.Back in Your Own Back Yard
13.When You're With Somebody Else
14.Ramona
15.Happy Days and Lonely Nights
16.Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now
17.Beloved
18.Sonny Boy
19.My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now
20.You're the Cream in My Coffee
21.I'll Get by as Long as I Have You
22.Button up Your Overcoat
23.Mean to Me
24.More Than You Know
25.Cryin' For the Carolines
Love Me Or Leave Me Songs DISC 2:
1.Ten Cents a Dance
2.Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do
3.Dancing With Tears in My Eyes
4.Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me
5.Just a Little Closer
6.If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
7.Body and Soul
8.Love Is Like That, What Can You Do?
9.Nevertheless I'm in Love With You
10.Shine On, Harvest Moon
11.Guilty
12.Me!
13.Faded Summer Love, A
14.Cuban Love Song
15.It Was So Beautiful
16.I'll Never Be the Same
17.Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight
18.Close Your Eyes
19.Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
20.Riptide
21.Easy Come, Easy Go
22.Life Is a Song, Let's Sing It Together
23.You
24.It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
25.There's a Lull in My Life
26.Goodnight, Sweetheart


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