The Complete Capitol Collection (Dick Haymes album) explained

The Complete Capitol Collection
Type:compilation
Artist:Dick Haymes
Cover:Completecapitoldick.jpg
Released:2006
Recorded:1955, 1956, 1957
Genre:Pop, Jazz
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Label:EMI gold 0946 3 71389 2 2
Producer:Ken Barnes
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The Complete Capitol Collection is a compilation album from Dick Haymes released in 2006.

Many Haymes fans and Jazz/ crooner aficionados have eagerly awaited the release of these great recordings from the Haymes' catalogue.

This marks the first time a complete collection of all his Capitol recordings has been released.

Track listing

Disc 1:

  1. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  2. "The More I See You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
  3. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble)
  4. "You'll Never Know" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
  5. "If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)
  6. "How Deep is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin)
  7. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington)
  8. "Where or When" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  9. "Little White Lies" (Walter Donaldson)
  10. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  11. "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  12. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  13. "I Never Get Enough Of You" (Bob Haymes)
  14. "C'est La Vie" (E.R. White, Maxwell Wolfson)
  15. "Love is a Great Big Nothin" (Dolores Vicki Silvers)
  16. "Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne)
  17. "Now At Last" (Bob Haymes) (Out-Take)
  18. "Now At Last" (Bob Haymes)
  19. "Rainbow's End" (Paul Francis Webster, Leon Pober) (Out-Take)
  20. "Rainbow's End" (Paul Francis Webster, Leon Pober) (previously unreleased)

Disc 2:

  1. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
  2. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye)
  3. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
  4. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer)
  5. "Isn't This a Lovely Day (to Be Caught in the Rain?)" (Irving Berlin)
  6. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
  8. "Then I'll Be Tired of You" (Yip Harburg, Arthur Schwartz)
  9. "I Like the Likes of You" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg)
  10. "Moonlight Becomes You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
  11. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
  12. "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman)
  13. "Never Leave Me" (Gordon Jenkins)
  14. "New York's My Home" (Gordon Jenkins)
  15. "My Love For Carmen" (Jackie Gleason) (Out-Take)
  16. "My Love For Carmen" (Jackie Gleason) (previously unreleased)

Recording musicians

Single sessions

June 25, 1956:With the Billy May Orchestra

June 26, 1956:With the Ian Bernard Orchestra

August 13, 1956With the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus

April 4, 1957With the Jackie Gleason Orchestra

See the entries for the original albums: Rain Or Shine and Moondreams for information on those sessions.

Sources