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Four Classic Albums (For You, For Me, For Evermore / Sings The Blues / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / Let Me Love You)

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Morgana King Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	For You, For Me, For Evermore: For You, For Me, Forever More
2	For You, For Me, For Evermore: Here I'll Stay
3	For You, For Me, For Evermore: There's A Lull In My Life
4	For You, For Me, For Evermore: Delovely
5	For You, For Me, For Evermore: Down In The Depths
6	For You, For Me, For Evermore: The Song Is You
7	For You, For Me, For Evermore: In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
8	For You, For Me, For Evermore: Ev'rything I Love
9	For You, For Me, For Evermore: If You Could See Me Now
10	For You, For Me, For Evermore: I'll String Along With You
11	For You, For Me, For Evermore: Everything I've Got
12	For You, For Me, For Evermore: You're Not So Easy To Forget
13	Sings The Blues: More Than You Know
14	Sings The Blues: Frankie And Johnnie
15	Sings The Blues: Mean To Me
16	Sings The Blues: When Your Lover Has Gone
17	Sings The Blues: Something To Remember You By
18	Sings The Blues: I See Two Lovers
19	Sings The Blues: Body And Soul
20	Sings The Blues: Mad About The Boy
21	Sings The Blues: It's Only A Paper Moon
22	Sings The Blues: Bill

Disc: 2

1	Sings The Blues: Can't Help Lovin Dat Man
2	Sings The Blues: Why Was I Born
3	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: Just You, Just Me
4	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: And the Angels Sing
5	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: Take the 'A' Train
6	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: I Can't Get Started
7	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: Lullaby of Birdland
8	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: A Foggy Day
9	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: How High the Moon
10	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: Perdido
11	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: Lonesome Road
12	The Greatest Songs Ever Swung: At Sundown
13	Let Me Love You: All or Nothing at All
14	Let Me Love You: Let Me Love You
15	Let Me Love You: I Love You Much Too Much
16	Let Me Love You: I'll Never Smile Again
17	Let Me Love You: I'll Remember April
18	Let Me Love You: You Always Hurt The One You Love
19	Let Me Love You: The End Of A Love Affair
20	Let Me Love You: Mad About Him Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues
21	Let Me Love You: That Ole Devil Called Love
22	Let Me Love You: Undecided
23	Let Me Love You: You Don t Know What Love Is
24	Let Me Love You: I've Found A New Baby - Fast Version
25	Let Me Love You: I've Found A New Baby - Slow Version

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The 'Godmother' brings it home..........!! AVID Jazz here presents four classic Morgana King albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. 'For You, For Me, For Evermore', 'Sings The Blues', 'The Greatest Songs Ever Swung' and 'Let Me Love You'. To quote from the liner notes for the 'Let Me Love You' album recorded in July 1956, 'good singers are at a premium these days............... let's say it out in front, Morgana King is a good singer.....always has been...endowing a song with a warm and very personalised feeling'. Born into a musical family in 1930 in Pleasantville N.Y., her father played guitar and sang, while her first husband was the talented jazz trumpeter Tony Fruscella who introduced Morgana to the music of Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk among others. Her second husband was the jazz trombonist Willie Dennis who had played with Mingus and Mulligan and would collaborate with Morgana on many musical projects. Morgana herself studied at the Metropolitan School of Music. These four classic, hard to find albums, recorded between 1956 and 1959 all allude to the emergence of a bright new singing star that was Morgana King. With a four octave voice, Morgana was hard for critics to categorize, was she jazz or something else? It could explain why despite more than 30 albums to her name, recorded from the fifties to the nineties and rave remarks from such as Stevie Wonder who was quoted as saying 'Morgana King has done the best version of 'You Are The Sunshine of My Life' I have ever heard', she never really found the full recognition she so richly deserved. She was even invited by Frank Sinatra to record three albums for his Reprise label in the mid sixties while the seventies saw her take on the role of wife to Marlon Brando's Don Corleone in the classic The Godfather parts 1 & 2. These early albums show us what a great singing talent Morgana was and (indeed still is!) as she moves with consummate ease from jazz classics to blues to standards from the Great American Songbook. All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.3 x 12.7 x 0.99 cm; 106.03 g
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Avid Jazz
Item model number ‏ : ‎ CDAMSC1021
Label ‏ : ‎ Avid Jazz
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004JAUCSM
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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bunjy1

a voice from the past

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2013

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Morgana King has been a dimly remembered name from 50 or so years ago. It was only when I heard a recent David Jacobs show that I realised what a talent she had. She never made a name over this side of the atlantic, shamefully so. Having had repeated listenings since i received it, it seems to me that on some numbers she has a tinge of Rosemary Clooney in her voice. Perhaps that is why she was never really promoted. But at least I am glad that I can catch up on what i have been missing. Cannot recommend this CD highly enough.

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Brian Farang

Nice discovery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2012

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Although I've been a jazz lover for many years, I'd never come across Morgana King until Amazon alerted me to this four album collection. I was particularly interested because it included attractive tunes that I'd only heard as instrumentals before, like Why Was I Born?, If You Could See Me Now and Ev'ry Thing I Love. Some of the backing is orchestral, but a lot is with smaller groups, which don't really include big names, but play a pleasing accompaniment. Her delivery is great, very pleasant to listen to, and the CDs were well worth the money.

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Mr. Robert Loader

Morgana King

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2020

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I have been intrigued by Miss King since David Jacob introduced her music many years ago. Be prepared, her rendition of all of the songs is unique to her. It's a new way of hearing "A Foggy Day" or "How High the Moon". For Ella & Peggy Lee fans like me it takes time to get used to. How ever it is good and most enjoyable listening to her voice and style.

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D. W. Jones

The best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2012

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I had heard of Morgana King having heard one or two tracks on BBC radio2. I thought let's take flier and buy these CD's. Thank goodness I did because the purity of her voice the beautiful sound I felt like kicking myself for not buying her recordings years ago. If you like to hear what an angel sings like get this album, put it on and then sit back and let the beautiful sound engulf you. You to like me will be glad you bought this collection of angelic singing.

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Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2018

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Can't go wrong with anything from Morgana King.

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barbara burke

Fantastic mp3 the four albums give deep insight to a ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2014

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Fantastic mp3 the four albums give deep insight to a very underrated artist

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mark foster

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2016

Just magic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2020

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4 CD in 1 what more can i say, its like you are stealing from them

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Louis

Good Buy!

Reviewed in Canada on 19 July 2021

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Excellent albums of an underestimated jazz diva.

Nancy Morse

Morgana King's CD that includes four of her albums

Reviewed in the United States on 13 September 2013

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Morgana King is the "wife" of the Godfather movie's main character. She sings at the wedding of her daughter and does a perfect job of looking just matronly enough, just Italian and beautiful enough, just self-trained (which she is definitely not!) to fit the part. I became interested in her because of this role.
My husband and I often speculate...."What do you suppose so-and-so whom we enjoyed in the such-and-such movie...is doing these days."
So I decided to find out.

When I started playing excerpts of her on You Tube, I was blown away with the beauty and the vocal lines, the interpretations...the velvet voice of this person.

I started reading about her. She is extremely highly formally trained. When you hear her sing on these albums you become aware of how she then had to refine or alter these training disciplines to come across to the listeners interested in popular classic tunes (not classical...there is such a difference) that she is capable of singing. Eileen Farrell, of the Metropolitan Opera ultimately got hired to be a faculty member at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. During that time she was engaged to sing in her self-created blues style with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic of which my husband was then a member. He talked with her backstage during a break in the performance when he was not to be on stage playing horn. She told him that her husband walked a beat....a New York City cop. I never forgot that. I mention this because you just never think about the regular lives of remarkable people.

This is probably similar for Morgana King. She had a career I never knew about. The way Frank Sinatra learned to phrase and sing so beautifully, I recall learning, was to hear these fine backup orchestras that recorded or performed with him or, perhaps, with others. He absorbed the concepts of the string players as they phrased and articulated (or not) their music. He learned to sustain, to control dynamics and to not hold up the orchestra when he sang, but to learn how to draw out a phrase and then catch up. These artful things about singing in a "vamp style" have to be learned "on the scene," so to speak, unlike learning the classical training from vocal experts. All of this is important to know so that when you hear Morgana King sing, you become aware not only of her individual interpretations, but the seemingly effortless (ha ha) skill she evolved to produce lullaby-like sweetness as well as svelteness in her singing. Timing - perfecting it - is essential and a true gift, carefullyly developed over time.

I mention all of these things, because, as a classically-trained musician myself - pianist, choral director and professional harpist, I have been in places where I can appreciate these things and have come to realize that what is needed are 1. a God-given exquisite voice, 2. A remarkable intelligence, 3. The desire to achieve excellence and perfection if possible, 4. Tremendous self-discipline, and 5. An appreciation of these talents so as to not ruin them by over working them nor by misuse.

This album is just about as sweet as it can get. I highly recommend this, if you loved Frank Sinatra's style of singing. Or Eileen Farrell's album, "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues."

Morgana King is a real treasure! Thanks, Amazon for making this available. There is another one which I have ordered from Europe. Apparently its copyright in the US prevents its sale. She performed on a TV show and sang a tune that was just.....just incredible in technique as well as beauty. Go to You Tube and look for it. I think it was on Dean Martin's show and he introduced her as unbelievable. Was he ever right!!!!
nancy morse

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Dr. Vibe

Ahh, Sing It, Baby.

Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2018

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As soon as I heard her voice, I was happy to be in possession of some real music.I believe the best description for this music is Nostalgia, or, possibly, Torch Songs. This is music for anyone who has ever felt all of the highs and one of lows of love as well as the in betweens. Morgana King is one of the most serene singers I have ever heard and this is a welcome addition to my collection. I still have a powerful hankering in my heart for her version of "A Lazy Afternoon" and "When the World Was Young". Then I know my smile will never fade away.

don mills

Honey for the ears....

Reviewed in Canada on 7 December 2014

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What a find...perfection over the years...

Jean Louis Baggio

du monotone et du bon jazz vocal

Reviewed in France on 2 November 2013

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les 2 CD's contienent LP's (1956/1959). Le CD 1 est tres monotone (tempi lents trop souvent) par contre le CD 2 est plus vivant mais il faut reconnaitre le talent vocal de cette femme.

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