Track Listing

1. My Own
2. Il Bacio (The Kiss)
3. It's Raining Sunbeams
4. Les Filles De Cadix (The Maids Of Cadiz)
5. Ave Maria
6. Because
7. The Last Rose Of Summer
8. Home Sweet Home
9. Spring In My Heart
10. One Fine Day
11. Poor Butterfly
12. Annie Laurie
13. Kiss Me Again
14. My Hero
15. Estrellita
16. Musetta's Waltz Song
17. Amapola
18. Loch Lomond
19. Love Is All
20. It's Foolish But It's Fun
21. Waltzing In The Clouds
22. When April Sings
23. Beneath The Lights Of Home
24. Perhaps
25. God Bless America
26. Love's Old Sweet Song
27. Can't Help Singing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119277 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of
• Original language: English, Russian
• Running time: 90 minutes

From Amazon.co.uk
Devoted fans aside, most people's awareness of Deanna Durbin is probably the result of a chance encounter with the occasional television matinée featuring an item from her prodigious film output of the 1930s and 40s. She was blessed equally with a winning juvenile screen presence and a sweet, light soprano: in many respects, the Charlotte Church of her day. But unlike her contemporary Judy Garland, Durbin called it a day in the mid-1940s and withdrew completely from the glare of the spotlight. On the evidence of this selection of operatic extracts, folk songs and standards--many conducted by Charles Previn--her particular talent for imbuing lyrics with simple, wholesome honesty is worth more than a second hearing. "My Own", "Home Sweet Home", "Poor Butterfly" and "Annie Laurie" are still remarkably touching. And although some of the adulterated arias will curry few favours with modern taste, Durbin could clearly have made a career in light opera and operetta once she had outgrown the juvenile leads. For everyone who likes a little sugar with their nostalgia. -- Piers Ford