Your Number Please . . . (VINYL JAZZ VOCAL LP / VIXENS OF VINYL)

Julie London / Music Arranged and Conducted by Andre Previn

Published by Liberty Records, Hollywood, Calif., 1959

Language: English

Condition: Used - Near fine Hardcover

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Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "Visual Sound Stereo" vinyl record, Liberty LST 7130, near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus cardboard jacket split about 1/3 of the way back to top and bottom. Original silver-on- black label. Jacket warns this is a "non-compatible long-playing record; to be reproduced" -- by which they surely mean "played" -- "with a stereophonic cartridge only." The smoky-voiced Miss London offers up "The More I See You," "Makin' Whoopee," "Two Sleepy People," "When I Fall In Love," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," etc. London (1926-2000), a favorite WWII pin-up girl and 1945 graduate of the Hollywood Professional High School, was discovered by talent agent Sue Carol (wife of actor Alan Ladd), while working as an elevator operator. (Honest.) Known for her sultry, smoky voice (literally -- she was a chain smoker), she was named most popular American female vocalist for 1955, 1956, and 1957 by Billboard magazine. Subject of a 1957 cover story in Life magazine, she was quoted saying, "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate." London performed her million-selling 1955 hit "Cry Me a River" in the 1956 film "The Girl Can't Help It" and the recording gained later attention in the films "Passion of Mind" (2000) and "V for Vendetta" (2006), though Miss London will of course always be best remembered for her 128 episodes as Rampart General Hospital's Chief ER Nurse Dixie McCall in the TV series "Emergency!" (1972-1979), a role in which she was cast by her ex-husband (and executive producer) Jack Webb, playing opposite her then-husband, jazz musician Bobby Troup, who lent his talents as emergency room physician Dr. Joe Early. Not that the catalogs are worth much any more, but this album catalogs $40; here reduced from $19.

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Title

Your Number Please . . . (VINYL JAZZ VOCAL LP / VIXENS OF VINYL)

Publisher

Liberty Records, Hollywood, Calif.

Publication Date

1959

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Cover photograph: Garrett-Howard

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Eclectic vintage and out-of-print collectable condition books and records in every genre. Cat's Curiosities closed our brick-and-mortar location in Las Vegas in late 2016, and is now an Internet-only seller, specializing in Nevada & The West; Free-market & Austrian Economics; Vintage vinyl LP records (many signed); Century-old juvenile series books; Health & Medicine; Cookbooks (many signed) & Alcoholiana; Travel, Exploration, & Geology.

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