- Artist:
- Matt Monro
Stranger In Paradise - The Lost New York Sessions: CD
Release date: 13 March, 2020
Bringing together Matt Monro’s great “lost” Broadway album and 27 of the British singer’s biggest hits, the 2CD collection ‘Stranger In Paradise’ showcases the immense vocal talents of whom Frank Sinatra once noted – “His pitch was right on the nose; his word enunciations letter perfect; his understanding of a song thorough.”
Recently unearthed from the Capitol Records vaults, disc 1 captures Matt and an intimate grouping of musicians interpreting some of the great Broadway classics of the day, including ‘The Impossible Dream’, ‘Hello Dolly’ and of course, ‘Stranger In Paradise’. The search in the vault has also unearthed two previously undiscovered Matt tracks – Beautiful Beautiful World and What Makes It Happen which make their debut here.
Meanwhile disc 2 includes all the classics for which Matt’s been revered, both then and now, including ‘Born Free’, ‘From Russia With Love’, and ‘On Days Like These’
Tracklist:
CD1
1 Impossible Dream
2 Stranger In Paradise
3 Put On A Happy Face
4 Hello Dolly
5 The Apple Tree
6 If She Walked Into My Life
7 The Sweetest Sounds
8 Sunrise Sunset
9 Walking Happy
10 I Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her
11 Come Back To Me
12 Look For Small Pleasures
13 The Lady Smiles
14 Lover’s Caravan
15 Beautiful Beautiful World
16 What Makes It Happen
17 The Apple Tree (Alternate Vocal)
18 The Lady Smiles (Take 5)
19 Lover’s Caravan (Take 2)
20 What Makes It Happen (Take 5)
CD2:
1 Portrait of My Love
2 My Kind of Girl
3 Gonna Build a Mountain
4 Softly As I Leave You
5 From Russia With Love
6 Walk Away
7 Yesterday
8 Born Free
9 This Is The Life
10 On a Clear Day
11 Don’t Answer Me
12 Honey On The Vine
13 Wednesdays Child
14 I Will Wait For You
15 Georgie Girl
16 Spanish Eyes
17 When I Look In Your Eyes
18 Pretty Polly
19 Maria
20 The Music Played
21 All of a Sudden
22 On Days Like These
23 Two People
24 Everybody’s Talking
25 We’re Gonna Change The World
26 And You Smiled
27 If I Never Sing Another Song
- Formats:
- CD Album