The Stars Are Singing (at Least Rosie Is)

The name of the movie was The Stars Are Singing, but the only star who sings on the 1953 soundtrack EP is Rosemary Clooney. The other stars - heldentenor Lauritz Melchior and teen canary Anna Maria Alberghetti - were otherwise occupied. Or, more likely, not under contract to Columbia, as was Rosie.

The film was an unlikely affair with Alberghetti as an illegal immigrant who wants to sing, Melchior as a kindly retired opera singer, and Don Wilson as Don Wilson. Clooney plays a pop singer who is a neighbor of Melchior.

This EP has her songs from the movie, three of which were written by the ever-present team of Livingston and Evans. The fourth tune is Come on-a My House, which was co-written by a Pulitzer Prize winner and the impresario of Alvin and the Chipmunks (William Saroyan and Ross Bagdasarian). It was, of course, a Mitch Miller production, featuring what must be one of the few recorded examples of boogie-woogie harpsichord, played by Stan Freeman.