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- Artist: Guy Lombardo
- Rating:
- Release Date: September 26, 1995
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Easy Listening
Review
Though you couldn't tell it by examining the album cover or the brief liner notes, this import CD contains 22 tracks by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians that originally were released on Decca Records between 1939 and 1944. The compilation for the most part eschews Lombardo's hit recordings of the period -- only "Deep Purple," "Take It Easy," and the #1 "It's Love Love Love" were chart items -- in favor of obscure B-sides and cover versions of hits by others, such as "Three Little Fishes" (Kay Kyser) and "Scatterbrain" (Frankie Masters). (Note that "Goodnight Sweetheart" is not the hit version from 1931, but a re-recording.) As such, while a welcome release for fans who don't generally see such tracks on reissues, this album is not the best place for new listeners to start a Lombardo collection. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Deep Purple | Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish | (3:12) | |
| Boom | (2:25) | ||
| Faitful Forever | Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin | Guy Lombardo, |
(3:09) |
| Start the Day Right | Charles Tobias, |
(2:53) | |
| The Nearness of You | Ned Washington, Hoagy Carmichael | (2:55) | |
| When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano | Leon René | Guy Lombardo, |
(3:06) |
| Scatterbrian | Johnny Burke, |
Guy Lombardo, |
(2:56) |
| It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day | Sammy Timberg | Guy Lombardo, |
(2:39) |
| I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire | Bennie Benjamin, |
Guy Lombardo, |
(2:43) |
| Rainbow Valley | Edgar Leslie, Sonny Burke | Guy Lombardo, |
(3:14) |
| Concerto in the Park | (2:38) | ||
| Blues in the Night | Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer | (3:27) | |
| Along the Santa Fe Trail | Al Dubin, |
Guy Lombardo, |
(3:15) |
| Tes for Two | Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar | (2:58) | |
| Hawaiian Chant | Ray Noble | Guy Lombardo, |
(2:50) |
| Who? | Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II | (2:22) | |
| Three Little Fishes | (2:41) | ||
| Cancel the Flowers | Guy Lombardo, |
(3:07) | |
| Take It Easy | Victor Mizzy, |
Guy Lombardo, |
(3:00) |
| I'll See You in My Dreams | Gus Kahn, Isham Jones | (2:54) | |
| It's Love, Love, Love (Lyrics) | (2:37) | ||
| Goodnight Sweetheart | Jimmy Campbell, Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Rudy Vallée | Guy Lombardo, |
(2:54) |
