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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Sounds Of Silence - Jane Morgan

Sounds Of Silence

Monday Monday

The Sounds Of Silence
Jane Morgan
Cover Photo: Hank Parker
Harmony Records 11498 (HS 11398)
1970

From the back cover: Put the beauteous Jane Morgan in front of a big swinging band and you've got a lot of great listening to cook with, front-burner wise. Here she really lets it all hang out with some of the greatest hits on the contemporary scene as she gives her very own touch to such rock-based numbers as Good Lovin', The Sounds Of Silence, Daydream and Monday, Monday. And in the now standard Strangers In The Night, we are able to savor the classic Morgan style at its finest.

The sheer purity of her voice makes it easy to believe that she graduated from New York's famous Juilliard School Of Music where she was planning a career as an operatic lyric soprano. However, while working her way through school as an orchestra vocalist in a local night club, she decided to switch to pop music. Strangely enough, she was "discovered" not in the U.S., but in a Paris night spot, the swank Club des Champs Elysées where she starred after graduation. As she became the rage of Paris, she began to garner bookings all over the Continent and appeared in the top supper clubs and theaters in Rome, Madrid, Cannes, London and Monte Carlo. Of course, the world of her acclaim got back to the States, and American audiences practically demanded that she come back home. In her first cross-country tour she triumphed in just about every major club and hotel in the U.S. and Canada. In no time at all she became a truly international celebrity. Now she is occupied with concerts, club dates and recording, as well as frequent guest starring on major TV shows such as Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, "Hollywood Palace" and "Tonight."

Good Lovin'
Soul And Inspiration 
Strangers In The Night
The Sounds Of Silence
When A Woman Loves A Man
Daydream
Monday, Monday
Message To Michael 
Elusive Butterfly

1 comment:

  1. I like her versions and the orchestrations ! Thanks for intruducing me this this record !

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