JERRY VALE
''THE COLLECTION, DISC THREE''
MAY 4 2004
180:21
DISC ONE
1/Have You Looked into Your Heart
Teddy Randazzo/2:24
2/Old Cape Cod
Allan Jeffrey / Claire Rothrock / M Yakus/2:25
3/Al Di La
Mogol Audio 2 / Carlo Donida / Ervin Drake/3:14
4/Be My Love
Nicholas Brodszky / Sammy Cahn/2:43
5/Tears Keep Falling/2:20
6/Malafemmena
Totó/2:35
7/Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad)
Lee Pockriss / Paul Vance/2:58
8/Where Were You When I Needed You
Bernie Wayne/2:34
9/For Mama
Charles Aznavour / Don Black / Robert Galli/2:51
10/Somewhere
Georges Garvarentz/3:06
11/If Ever I Would Leave You
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe/3:00
12/Love Me the Way I Love You
Charles Tobias/3:40
13/Non Dimenticar
Shelley Dobbins / Michele Galdieri/3:40
14/O Sole Mio (My Sunshine)/2:45
15/The Impossible Dream
Joe Darion / Mitch Leigh/2:33
16/Arrivederci, Roma
Pietro Garinei / Renato Rascel / Carl Sigman/3:07
17/Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster/2:40
18/Amore, Scusami (My Love, Forgive Me)
Gino Mescoli / Vito Pallavicini/3:07
19/Ciao, Ciao, Bambina
Domenico Modugno / Mitchell Parish / Edoardo Verde/2:43
20/Mama
Harold Barlow / Phil Brito / Bruno Cherubini/3:37
DISC TWO
1/Pretend You Don't See Her feat. Percy Faith & His Orchestra
S. Allen/2:44
2/Go Chase a Moonbeam feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Lee Pockriss/2:32
3/Innamorata
Jack Brooks / Harry Warren/2:53
4/Go
Alex Alstone / R. Evans/3:06
5/Prima Donna feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
P. Francis/2:32
6/And This Is My Beloved
George Forrest/3:41
7/Two Purple Shadows feat. Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra
Sammy Mysels / Dick Sanford/3:07
8/You Don't Know Me feat. Percy Faith & His Orchestra
Eddy Arnold / C. Walker/2:34
9/If feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Stanley Damerell / Tolchard Evans / Robert Hargreaves/2:23
10/Enchanted
Carl Stutz/3:02
11/And No One Knows/3:02
12/Solitaire feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
S. Allen / Erroll Garner/2:36
13/More
Norman Newell / Nino Oliviero / Riz Ortolani/3:19
14/My Way
Paul Anka / Claude François / Jacques Revaux / Gilles Thibault/4:24
15/La Vie en Rose
Mack David / Marcel Louiguy / Edith Piaf/3:34
16/Moonlight Becomes You feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Johnny Burke/3:42
17/Red Sails in the Sunset
James Kennedy / Hugh Williams/1:58
18/How High the Moon feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis/3:22
19/I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk/3:01
20/You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)/3:40
DISC THREE
1/What Kind of Fool Am I
Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley/2:50
2/On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Burton Lane/2:34
3/So in Love
Cole Porter/2:31
4/The Shadow of Your Smile/3:07
5/Blue Velvet
Leon Morris / Bernie Wayne/3:09
6/I Love You Because
Leon Payne/3:07
7/It's Magic
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne/2:41
8/Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl (And Leave the Rest to Me)
Lewis Brown / Albert Von Tilzer/3:16
9/My Melancholy Baby
Ernie Burnett / George Norton/3:26
10/It Had to Be You
Isham Jones / Gus Kahn/3:46
11/The Very Thought of You
Ray Noble/2:59
12/Paradise
Nacio Herb Brown / Gordon Clifford/3:13
13/I Can't Stop Loving You
Don Gibson/2:48
14/Spanish Eyes
Bert Kaempfert / Charlie Singleton / Eddie Snyder/3:11
15/Volare
Francesci Migliacci / Domenico Modugno / Mitchell Parish/3:12
16/Maria
Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim/2:49
17/Sunrise, Sunset
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick/2:59
18/Stranger in Paradise
G. Forrest / Robert Wright/3:09
19/On the Street Where You Live
Frederick Loewe/2:50
20/Some Enchanted Evening
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers/3:30
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Jerry Vale's beautiful high-tenor voice graced many of the most enchanting pop songs of the '50s and '60s, including a parade of Italian-American favorites like "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," "Volare," "Amore, Scusami," and his signature song, "Al Di La." Vale, born Genaro Louis Vitaliano in 1932, learned the Italian repertoire from an early age; his mother often sang around the house and trotted out the old songs at extended-family gatherings. While shining shoes at a local barber shop at the age of 11, young Vitaliano began singing popular songs for customers while he worked. He was soon sent to a vocal coach, where he learned piano as well as voice. Over the course of just four years, he'd progressed from school productions to paying gigs to residencies at supper clubs around New York City.
After Guy Mitchell caught his set at one club, Jerry Vale began recording demonstration discs for Columbia. When A&R supremo Mitch Miller heard his excellent voice, however, he signed Vale to his own contract. Vale first hit the charts in 1953 with "You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart" (arranged by Percy Faith), and continued during the mid-'50s with "Two Purple Shadows," "I Live Each Day," and his biggest hit, "You Don't Know Me." Though his first explicitly Italian recording, "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," finally appeared in 1956, it wasn't until 1962 that Vale convinced the notoriously conservative Miller to record a full album of Italian songs. I Have But One Heart proved a big seller and was followed one year later by Arrivederci, Roma and a continental LP, The Language of Love, both of which placed even higher than the first on the album charts.
Though the mid-'60s were a trying time for traditional pop singers, Vale continued to be successful, with singles like "Have You Looked Into Your Heart" and "For Mama," and Top 40 LPs like There Goes My Heart and It's Magic. And even after his albums began failing to make the charts in the early '70s, Vale remained a popular name in clubs and on television throughout the '70s and '80s.
''THE COLLECTION, DISC THREE''
MAY 4 2004
180:21
DISC ONE
1/Have You Looked into Your Heart
Teddy Randazzo/2:24
2/Old Cape Cod
Allan Jeffrey / Claire Rothrock / M Yakus/2:25
3/Al Di La
Mogol Audio 2 / Carlo Donida / Ervin Drake/3:14
4/Be My Love
Nicholas Brodszky / Sammy Cahn/2:43
5/Tears Keep Falling/2:20
6/Malafemmena
Totó/2:35
7/Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad)
Lee Pockriss / Paul Vance/2:58
8/Where Were You When I Needed You
Bernie Wayne/2:34
9/For Mama
Charles Aznavour / Don Black / Robert Galli/2:51
10/Somewhere
Georges Garvarentz/3:06
11/If Ever I Would Leave You
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe/3:00
12/Love Me the Way I Love You
Charles Tobias/3:40
13/Non Dimenticar
Shelley Dobbins / Michele Galdieri/3:40
14/O Sole Mio (My Sunshine)/2:45
15/The Impossible Dream
Joe Darion / Mitch Leigh/2:33
16/Arrivederci, Roma
Pietro Garinei / Renato Rascel / Carl Sigman/3:07
17/Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster/2:40
18/Amore, Scusami (My Love, Forgive Me)
Gino Mescoli / Vito Pallavicini/3:07
19/Ciao, Ciao, Bambina
Domenico Modugno / Mitchell Parish / Edoardo Verde/2:43
20/Mama
Harold Barlow / Phil Brito / Bruno Cherubini/3:37
DISC TWO
1/Pretend You Don't See Her feat. Percy Faith & His Orchestra
S. Allen/2:44
2/Go Chase a Moonbeam feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Lee Pockriss/2:32
3/Innamorata
Jack Brooks / Harry Warren/2:53
4/Go
Alex Alstone / R. Evans/3:06
5/Prima Donna feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
P. Francis/2:32
6/And This Is My Beloved
George Forrest/3:41
7/Two Purple Shadows feat. Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra
Sammy Mysels / Dick Sanford/3:07
8/You Don't Know Me feat. Percy Faith & His Orchestra
Eddy Arnold / C. Walker/2:34
9/If feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Stanley Damerell / Tolchard Evans / Robert Hargreaves/2:23
10/Enchanted
Carl Stutz/3:02
11/And No One Knows/3:02
12/Solitaire feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
S. Allen / Erroll Garner/2:36
13/More
Norman Newell / Nino Oliviero / Riz Ortolani/3:19
14/My Way
Paul Anka / Claude François / Jacques Revaux / Gilles Thibault/4:24
15/La Vie en Rose
Mack David / Marcel Louiguy / Edith Piaf/3:34
16/Moonlight Becomes You feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Johnny Burke/3:42
17/Red Sails in the Sunset
James Kennedy / Hugh Williams/1:58
18/How High the Moon feat. Glenn Osser & His Orchestra
Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis/3:22
19/I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk/3:01
20/You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)/3:40
DISC THREE
1/What Kind of Fool Am I
Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley/2:50
2/On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Burton Lane/2:34
3/So in Love
Cole Porter/2:31
4/The Shadow of Your Smile/3:07
5/Blue Velvet
Leon Morris / Bernie Wayne/3:09
6/I Love You Because
Leon Payne/3:07
7/It's Magic
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne/2:41
8/Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl (And Leave the Rest to Me)
Lewis Brown / Albert Von Tilzer/3:16
9/My Melancholy Baby
Ernie Burnett / George Norton/3:26
10/It Had to Be You
Isham Jones / Gus Kahn/3:46
11/The Very Thought of You
Ray Noble/2:59
12/Paradise
Nacio Herb Brown / Gordon Clifford/3:13
13/I Can't Stop Loving You
Don Gibson/2:48
14/Spanish Eyes
Bert Kaempfert / Charlie Singleton / Eddie Snyder/3:11
15/Volare
Francesci Migliacci / Domenico Modugno / Mitchell Parish/3:12
16/Maria
Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim/2:49
17/Sunrise, Sunset
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick/2:59
18/Stranger in Paradise
G. Forrest / Robert Wright/3:09
19/On the Street Where You Live
Frederick Loewe/2:50
20/Some Enchanted Evening
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers/3:30
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Jerry Vale's beautiful high-tenor voice graced many of the most enchanting pop songs of the '50s and '60s, including a parade of Italian-American favorites like "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," "Volare," "Amore, Scusami," and his signature song, "Al Di La." Vale, born Genaro Louis Vitaliano in 1932, learned the Italian repertoire from an early age; his mother often sang around the house and trotted out the old songs at extended-family gatherings. While shining shoes at a local barber shop at the age of 11, young Vitaliano began singing popular songs for customers while he worked. He was soon sent to a vocal coach, where he learned piano as well as voice. Over the course of just four years, he'd progressed from school productions to paying gigs to residencies at supper clubs around New York City.
After Guy Mitchell caught his set at one club, Jerry Vale began recording demonstration discs for Columbia. When A&R supremo Mitch Miller heard his excellent voice, however, he signed Vale to his own contract. Vale first hit the charts in 1953 with "You Can Never Give Me Back My Heart" (arranged by Percy Faith), and continued during the mid-'50s with "Two Purple Shadows," "I Live Each Day," and his biggest hit, "You Don't Know Me." Though his first explicitly Italian recording, "Innamorata (Sweetheart)," finally appeared in 1956, it wasn't until 1962 that Vale convinced the notoriously conservative Miller to record a full album of Italian songs. I Have But One Heart proved a big seller and was followed one year later by Arrivederci, Roma and a continental LP, The Language of Love, both of which placed even higher than the first on the album charts.
Though the mid-'60s were a trying time for traditional pop singers, Vale continued to be successful, with singles like "Have You Looked Into Your Heart" and "For Mama," and Top 40 LPs like There Goes My Heart and It's Magic. And even after his albums began failing to make the charts in the early '70s, Vale remained a popular name in clubs and on television throughout the '70s and '80s.