“Showcase Of Hits” by Frankie Laine - album review
features in: (B-list) Album Chart of 1958 ● (B-list) Album Chart of the 1950s |
Frank Harvey's sickeningly enthusiastic liner notes would make you wary before a note was heard:
For innumerable reasons Frankie Laine's "Showcase" will remain for many years to come a treasured souvenir - not only for his countless fans. but all admirers of versatility in lusty, full-throated vocal power. Listen to Laine - and absorb every pulsating second of his thrilling style - so widely impersonated, but never improved upon!
Don't believe the hyperbole.
The Jukebox Rebel
08–Aug–2010
Tracklist |
A1 | [03:01] Frankie Laine with The Norman Luboff Choir - Jezebel (Wayne Shanklin) Pop |
A2 | [02:16] Frankie Laine - Hey Joe (Boudleaux Bryant) Pop |
A3 | [02:40] Frankie Laine - High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) Pop |
A4 | [03:05] Frankie Laine - The Girl In The Wood (Terry Gilkyson, Neal Stuart) Pop |
A5 | [02:33] Frankie Laine - Answer Me (Gernhard Winkler, Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman) Crooner / Cabaret |
A6 | [02:34] Frankie Laine - Blowing Wild (The Ballad Of Black Gold) (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster) Crooner / Cabaret |
A7 | [02:25] Frankie Laine - My Friend (Ervi Drake, Jimmy Shirl) Crooner / Cabaret |
B1 | [02:52] Frankie Laine - Granada (Dorothy Dodd, Agustin Lara) Crooner / Cabaret |
B2 | [02:55] Frankie Laine - Cool Water (Bob Nolan) Pop |
B3 | [02:31] Frankie Laine - Rose, Rose I Love You (Wilfrid Thomas) Pop |
B4 | [03:12] Frankie Laine - Jealousy (Jalousie) (Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade) Crooner / Cabaret |
B5 | [03:16] Frankie Laine - The Kid’s Last Fight (Bob Merrill) Pop |
B6 | [02:19] Frankie Laine - A Woman In Love (Frank Loesser) Pop |
B7 | [02:07] Frankie Laine - I Believe (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman) Crooner / Cabaret |