Emma Smith may be a part of the UK's best ever swing vocal group - The Puppini Sisters - but, she is also a knockout performer in her own right, as this rather wonderful album proves.
Given the amount of top class singers on the current scene it would be foolish to even attempt to draw comparisions between the contenders.
However, if backed into a corner and asked which recording by any singer, black or white, male or female, British or American, or whatever from wherever, made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck then it would be Emma Smith's slow, sensuous version of There's No Business Like Show Business. Unlike the traditional sock it to 'em versions associated with the Irving Berlin song, Emma gets into the song deeper than maybe even the composer himself envisaged. You, the listener, is backstage with her. The nerves, the stagefright etc. the triumph you share when, next day on your dressing room they've hung a star. Absolute magical magic!
I could wax equally eloquent over the other tracks but that would be stretching my vocabulary of superlatives up to, and beyond, the content of Roget's Thesaurus.
Great songs, a few originals and a superb trio - it doesn't get any better than this! Lance
I Don't Care; Where Am I Going?; Sit on my Knee and Tell me That You Love me; There's no Business Like Show Business; Makin' Whoopee; Think Pink; My Revelation; Ballad of a Wayward Woman; Monogamy Blues; Hollis Brown; People; Seventh Son; But Not For me.
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Just been listening to this one here - it's a fabulous CD!! Every track a winner!!
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