Even More Dinah Shore on Columbia

I have much enjoyed presenting two previous compilations of Dinah Shore's 1946-50 recordings for Columbia (here and here) - hope you have, too. So here is another, comprising two additional Harmony LPs from the 1950s - Love Songs and Lavender Blue.

The selection of 20 songs gives a good sense of both the repertoire for a pop singer in the post war years and the lavish arrangements that were afforded them, as led by such conductors as Nathan Van Cleave, Harry Zimmerman, Sonny Burke Morris Stoloff and Larry Russell - movie and show tunes and other items from the best composers.

Shore was among the most popular singers during this era, so she did get to record many good songs as they came out. The title song of Lavender Blue, from Disney's So Dear to My Heart, was a particularly big hit. Apparently no one minded the repeated "dilly, dilly" refrain, which not even Dinah can make charming.

This 1945 ad suggests that the secret to
Dinah's abundant charm was her hosiery

Among the songs here are "I'll Always Love You" and "You'll Always Be the One I Love." Given that she also did a tune called "I'll Always Be in Love with You" for Columbia, Dinah thoroughly covered the topic of eternal love during this period.

I should note that the selections here contain a few repeated items from a previous post. The sound is good throughout.