Cool Cats & Diamond Dolls on CD

Description

This album encapsulates a period in the late 50s and early 60s when jazz influenced sounds merged with pop and formed a unique blend of glamour fused with music and entertainment. Good looking crooners like Bobby Darin, Tom Jones effectively invented the term ‘Cool’ along with The Rat Pack (Dean Martin Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jnr) along with their ‘kid brother’ Paul Anka who would eventually write Sinatra’s classic My Way. These cool cats were accompanied by some of the most glamourous women from all over the World who for the first were finding there own success from the Bondess excitement of Shirley Bassey, to the all American sweetheart sound and look of Doris Day, the sexy French voice of Francois Hardy and the sultry Girl From Ipenema. Many of them were real Diamond Dolls summed beautifully by Marilyn Monroe. Great times, great music when Cool was born!

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
2 Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams
3 Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
4 What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
5 Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka
6 Move Over Darling - Doris Day
7 When I Fall In Love - Nat King Cole
8 That's Amore - Dean Martin
9 Jackie - Scott Walker
10 The Good Life - Tony Bennett
11 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - Marilyn Monroe
12 Trains and Boats and Planes - Dionne Warwick
13 Alfie - Cilla Black
14 A Little Love and Understanding - Gilbert Bécaud
15 Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat
16 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - B.J. Thomas
17 Just Walkin' in the Rain - Johnnie Ray
18 On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone
19 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
20 Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

Disc: 2
1 Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
2 Thunderball - Tom Jones
3 From Russia with Love - Matt Monro
4 Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
5 The James Bond Theme - The John Barry Seven & Orchestra
6 Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral
7 Classical Gas - Mason Williams
8 I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
9 For the Good Times - Perry Como
10 Do You Know the Way to San Jose - Dionne Warwick
11 Spanish Eyes - Al Martino
12 The Girl from Ipanema - Stan Getz & João Gilberto feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim & Astrud Gilberto
13 My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli
14 Why - Anthony Newley
15 Chanson d'Amour - Manhattan Transfer
16 Feelings - Morris Albert
17 Spooky - Dusty Springfield
18 Joanna - Scott Walker
19 Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) - Doris Day
20 Las Vegas - Tony Christie

Disc: 3
1 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra
2 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin
3 It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams
4 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra
5 Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
6 When a Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis
7 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
8 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker
9 Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
10 Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison
11 The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole
12 Silver Bells - Jim Reeves
13 Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) - Elvis Presley
14 Lonely Pup (In a Christmas Shop) - Adam Faith
15 Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mathis
16 Little Donkey - Nina & Frederik
17 The Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale
18 Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte
19 Silent Night - Bing Crosby
20 White Christmas - Pat Boone