Eydie Gorme - Best of - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn't have an audience when we were making them, Oberst says. InchBut from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash.Inch Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles - InchTake It Easy (Love Nothing),Inch from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and InchLua,Inch from the warm, folky Wide Awake - debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard Hot 100. InchFirst Day of My Life,Inch also from Wide Awake, would later be voted the Number One love song of all time by NPR Music's reader's poll. Bright Eyes had officially broken through. It was a heady, exciting time, but also fraughtand tense, both because of the band's careening new fame, and because of the state of the world. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their caustic anti-Bush anthem, InchWhen The President Talks To God.Inch These days, Oberst is still amusing himself by messing with the extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era's releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of Inchharmonica and mandolins - folky vibes,Inch Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter.

One of Eydie Gorme's outstanding attributes was her versatility and on this compilation album, featuring twenty-five songs she recorded in the early 1960s, you will find several excellent examples of this. Some tracks are appearing here on CD for the first time - InchSonny BoyInch and InchBefore Your TimeInch. All have been digitally re-mastered. She moves from favorite standards such as InchYou'll Never KnowInch and InchThe Nearness of YouInch, to the exciting Latin beat of InchGranadaInch and InchFrenesiInch, to Broadway's InchWhere is LoveInch and finally to her fun-filled take on InchNever on SundayInch renamed InchI Love to Dance (But Never on Sunday)Inch.

One half of one of America's most popular singing duos, Eydie Gorme, along with husband Steve Lawrence, have entertained audiences around the world since they first came into prominence in the early 1950's with their easy going brand of pop ballads and breezy swing. Eydie has recorded many great solo albums and has won numerous awards, including the Grammy and the Emmy. The album presented here, originally released in 1981, features Eydie performing a selection of pop and jazz standards including InchSend in the Clowns,Inch InchGod Bless the ChildInch and InchYou're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You.Inch All selections newly re-mastered.