Solid!

June Christy

Something Cool

Capitol

The ultimate collection for fans of the Misty Miss Christy, Something Cool features June at her best. The twenty-four songs on this CD cover the period between 1953 and 1955, the most productive and successful years of her career.

Eleven of the selections on Something Cool are from the original album of the same name which gave June her first real commercial success and convinced the critics that she was a capable jazz singer. The odd title song, with its sad rhythm and its lyrics about a pathetic woman lost in the haze of her own mind, is truly a classic. Most of the songs that June recorded fell into the category of ''odd,'' in a good sort of way. Many of the numbers on this CD are relatively unknown and little recorded, but June, with the help of arranger and orchestra leader Pete Rugolo, turned these oddball numbers into true gems of the ''smoke-filled room'' jazz variety. Those numbers that are familiar, like ''Midnight Sun'' and ''The Night We Called It a Day,'' are given the same twist as the unknowns, making the album, from beginning to end, flow quite dreamily through the unique world of Miss June Christy.

A definite recommendation.

Track Listing

• 1. Not I
• 2. Whee Baby
• 3. Why Do You Have to Go Home?
• 4. You're Making Me Crazy
• 5. Something Cool
• 6. Magazines
• 7. Midnight Sun
• 8. Lonely House
• 9. I Should Care
• 10. It Could Happen to You
• 11. The First Thing You Know, You're in Love
• 12. A Stranger Called the Blues
• 13. I'll Take Romance
• 14. Look Out Up There
• 15. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
• 16. Out of Somewhere
• 17. Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• 18. I'm Thrilled
• 19. This Time the Dream's on Me
• 20. The Night We Called It a Day
• 21. Kicks
• 22. Pete Kelly's Blues
• 23. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
• 24. I Never Want to Look into Those Eyes Again