Ruth Etting - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2006)

One of the most popular singers of the late-'20s/early-'30s period, Ruth Etting was not really a jazz singer (unlike her contemporary, Annette Hanshaw) but a superior middle-of-the-road pop singer who was often accompanied by top jazz musicians. She recorded over 200 songs between 1926-1937, appeared on-stage, was in 35 film shorts and three full-length movies, and was a fixture on radio before her bad marriage cut short her career. She made a minor comeback in the late '40s and was still singing on an occasional basis in the mid-'50s when a semi-fictional Hollywood movie on her life (Love Me or Leave Me) was released. A superb torch singer with a cry in her voice even when she smiled, Etting recorded the definitive versions of "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me."

Tracklist:

01. Love Me Or Leave Me
02. What We Do On A Dew-Dew-Dewy Day
03. The Song Is Ended, But The Melody Lingers On
04. Ramona
05. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
06. Beloved
07. Sonny Boy
08. You're The Cream In My Coffee
09. Ten Cents A Dance
10. Love Is Like That, What Can You Do?
11. Nevertheless I'm In Love With You
12. Shine On, Harvest Moon
13. A Faded Summer Love
14. Cuban Love Song
15. I'll Never Be The Same
16. Close Your Eyes
17. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
18. Riptide
19. Easy Come, Easy Go
20. Goodnight, Sweetheart