Love songs can be tailored to fashion. They come in whatever style is current, and while they may sound different in those various styles, they remain love songs because love, at least as an emotional construct, is immutable. In the end, one is either in love or out of love, and the urge to sing about it all appears to be innate. This three-disc, 63-track collection of love songs from the 1950s and '60s can be termed “old-fashioned” only because styles and fashions change -- the concept of love doesn’t. If the artists compiled here -- Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Cilla Black, and Skeeter Davis, to name just a few -- tend to croon more than they shout, growl, or rap when the subject is love, then what is being said is all the same. It’s the nature of love songs, old-fashioned or not.
Old Fashioned Love Songs
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Old Fashioned Love Songs Review
by Steve Leggett
Track Listing - Disc 1
Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Frank Sinatra | 03:17 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
2 | Dean Martin | 02:24 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
3 | Vic Damone | 02:23 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | Louis Prima | 02:58 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
5 | Alma Cogan | 01:45 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
6 | Peggy Lee | 03:20 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
7 | Johnny Mathis | 03:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
8 | Nat King Cole | 03:09 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
9 | Gordon MacRae | 03:30 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
10 | June Christy / Stan Kenton | 03:48 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
11 | Julie London | 02:48 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
12 | Liza Minnelli | 04:19 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
13 | Jo Stafford | 03:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
14 | Betty Hutton | 03:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
15 | Keely Smith | 02:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
16 | Frances Faye | 02:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
17 | Dinah Shore | 02:51 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
18 | Martha Tilton | 02:18 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
19 | Freddie Slack & His Orchestra / Margaret Whiting | 02:39 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
20 | Shirley Bassey | 02:58 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
21 | Al Martino | 03:03 | SpotifyAmazon |
Track Listing - Disc 2
Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | Perry Como | 03:19 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
2 | Al Martino | 02:45 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
3 | Vince Hill | 03:03 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | Slim Whitman | 03:17 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
5 | Mary Ford / Les Paul | 02:49 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
6 | Jo Stafford | 03:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
7 | Vera Lynn | 03:54 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
8 | Al Bowlly | 03:32 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
9 | Turner Layton | 03:01 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
10 | Judy Garland | 03:37 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
11 | Solomon King | 03:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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Frankie Vaughan | 02:51 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
13 | Dean Martin | 02:12 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
14 | Frank Sinatra | 03:04 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
15 | Michael Holliday | 02:13 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
16 | Nancy Wilson | 02:38 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
17 | Louis Armstrong | 03:12 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
18 | Mike Sammes Singers | 02:32 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
19 | P.J. Proby | 03:15 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
20 | Malcolm Roberts | 02:47 | SpotifyAmazon |
Track Listing - Disc 3
Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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1 | The Righteous Brothers | 03:36 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
2 | The Platters | 02:36 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
3 | Danny Williams | 02:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
4 | The Flamingos | 03:10 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
5 | The Fleetwoods | 02:22 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
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The Chordettes | 02:23 | SpotifyAmazon | ||
7 | Nat King Cole Trio | 02:49 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
8 | Ketty Lester | 02:39 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
9 | Skeeter Davis | 02:35 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
10 | Helen Shapiro | 02:40 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
11 | The Everly Brothers | 02:22 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
12 | Bobby Vee | 02:28 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
13 | Buddy Holly | 02:07 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
14 | Fats Domino | 02:21 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
15 | Craig Douglas | 02:11 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
16 | Doris Day | 02:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
17 | Kenny Lynch | 02:46 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
18 | Cilla Black | 02:50 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
19 | Frank Ifield | 02:03 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
20 | Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas | 02:02 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
21 | Johnny Burnette | 01:56 | SpotifyAmazon | |||
22 | Cliff Richard & the Shadows | 02:55 | SpotifyAmazon |