Orchestra conducted by Ken Moule
personnel unkonwn except
Ike Isaacs - guitar
01 In The Arms Of Love (Mancini, Livingston, Evans) (2:44)
02 Too Little Time (Mancini, Rae) (3:51)
03 Mr. Lucky (Mancini, Livingston, Evans) (2:28)
04 Moon River (Mancini, Mercer) (3:14)
05 Mostly For Lovers (Mancini, Webster) (2:43)
06 Charade (Mancini, Mercer) (2:29)
07 How Soon (Mancini, Stillman) (3:22)
08 Dreamsville (Mancini, Livingston, Evans) (3:43)
09 A Slow Hot Wind (Mancini, Gimbel) (3:32)
10 We (Mancini, McKuen) (2:19)
11 Days Of Wine And Roses (Mancini, Mercer) (3:56)
12 Bye Bye (Mancini, Livingston, Evans) (2:38)
Avenue AVE 033
Recorded 1969
Contribued by bluebird, who writes:-
Sandra who? you might ask.
I'd never heard of her either but picked up a cd of her singing just with pianist Pat Smythe and a bass player live in Washington in 1982.
I really bought it for Pat Smythe's contribution but was so impressed by her singing that I explored further. In the cd sleeve note there was a reference to an obscure lp she made in 1969 when just 19. It was her first and made for the budget UK label Avenue.
Sandra was discovered singing in a small Ilford Club by American vocalist Mark Murphy which lead to an engagement at Ronnie Scott's and a BBC Jazz Club broadcast where she was accompanied by the Pat Smythe Trio. Tony Bennett was an admirer as was Richard Rodney Bennett, with whom she was to record later in her career.
This is that obscure first lp and it is one which you could easily pass up in the charity shop boxes. All the songs are by Henry Mancini and Ken Moule did the arrangements. Apart from Ike Isaacs on guitar, the other musicians are not identified but she is backed by a small jazzy group and with strings and a larger Orchestra on a couple of tracks.
A fine debut album by this very assured 19 year old singer. She is the stunning redhead pictured on the sleeve.
Stand out tracks for me are 'Dreamsville' and 'Slow Hot Wind' but Mancini never wrote a bad song. I bet you never thought that the words Slow, Hot and Wind could be made to sound sexy but just listen to Sandra's version here.
So what happened to Miss King?
It seems that she worked mainly in radio and on the Continent and didn't record commercially again until the 1982 Washington concert mentioned above. There were a couple of tracks recorded in 1985, an album with Richard Rodney Bennett in 1986 and one more with him in 1996. Then silence.
Anyone know anything about her - or has anyone even heard of her? It is possible that she re-located to the USA as her other albums were recorded there.
FLAC from lp with cover scans.
