Lita Roza With The Bill Shephe
Release Date: 16 September 2016
Label: El / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5013929331839
Genres: Rock
Description
Lita Roza's real talent was as a sultry and sophisticated interpreter of romantic ballads; a British Julie London with a touch of Astrud Gilberto.
A singer of integrity, an artist ahead of her time. A strong woman who could be outspoken in defence of her craft, Lita was a fiercely independent artist who emerged a decade too early. It's ironic that her commercial breakthrough came in March 1953 with Bob Merrill's much-derided 'How Much Is That Doggie in the Window', a novelty ballad that was scarcely representative of her work. Lita had been talked into recording the song and it reached Number One, but she thought it puerile, and resolutely refused to perform it again, in any context, 'I said I would sing it once and only once and then I would never sing it again, and I haven't'.
Lita served a four year musical apprenticeship from 1950 - on tour and in radio broadcasts - with the Ted Heath Orchestra; her popularity (during the period she topped both The Melody Maker and New Musical Express Polls for Favourite Female Vocalist) made it possible for her to branch out into film and television and she soon found herself fronting her own Saturday night spectacular, the Lita Roza Show, making appearances on Six-Five Special, the programme which introduced skiffle and rock'n'roll to the BBC.
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
Greg Freeman
The Armory Show
Apocalypse Orchestra
The Blackbirds
Hawkwind
The War on Drugs
Hands Like Houses
Wasia Project
