Helen Grayco - After Midnight
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After Midnight
Music Price: $22.98
As of Nov 22 6:45 EST (details)
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| Artist(s) | Helen Grayco |
| Studio | RCA Fs Imports |
| Release Date | November 16, 2004 |
| UPC Code | 743216382026 |
| Buy this item | $22.98 at Amazon.com
As of Nov 22 6:45 EST (details)
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 |  | Fine, Under-rated Songbird |  |
Helen Grayco was seemingly content to be Mrs. Spike Jones, as she recorded only sporadically in the 1950s, when her fine voice was at its peak. This LP was recorded during her Label "X"-Vik period, during which she also recorded some smokin' R&B covers (her "Night Train" is killer); it would have been nice to see these included as bonus tracks, but here we get just the 12-track album at a reasonable price. That's fine, as Helen does justice to some top-shelf standards, singing with the musical taste and feeling for the lyric that was once required of any successful pop singer. Songbook lovers and seekers of obscure but excellent 50s songbirds should enjoy this album. Of course, it took the Japanese to get it into print... American Sony/BMG, you are such losers.
January 29, 2008I first heard a Helen Grayco song in the 60s. It was called Lilly's Lament, a campy sort of blues thing. It served one major purpose: to prompt me to find a larger body of her work that would show off her whispery, lightly-torchy, bluesy voice. It is good that I found it in After Midnight, because it is her only real album. It features some great stuff like Mood Indigo, Black Coffee and Midnight Sun. One must use the word "contrast" in any description of Ms Grayco's work because most of her time before a studio mike was with her then husband, (gasp) Spike Jones. But don't hold that against her. If you like Julie London, you'll like Ms Grayco.
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