Asv Living Era
2006
Betty Hutton: Blonde Bombshell, The
About This Album
Comic actress and singer Betty Hutton was known as "the blonde bombshell" because of her hair color and -- during the war years of the '40s -- her explosive personality and vocal style. In a 20-year recording career that stretched from 1939 to 1959, most of which was spent with RCA Victor and Capitol Records, she recorded a series of hits, usually songs associated with the Hollywood movie musicals in which she appeared. In the mid-'90s, Capitol compiled her recordings as part of its Spotlight on...Great Ladies of Song series and One Way Records licensed some of her RCA tracks for a CD called The Best of the RCA Years. In Europe, reissue labels have been waiting out the 50-year copyright limit on recordings to assemble their own unlicensed Hutton collections. Living Era's The Blonde Bombshell (not to be confused with AEI's A Blonde Bombshell, Collectors' Choice's Hollywood's Blonde Bombshell or Jasmine's The Blonde Bombshell in Hollywood -- whew!) constitutes a good Hutton best-of, covering her work from 1941 to 1954. It is not exhaustive; it doesn't go all the way back to her late-'30s tracks as the vocalist with Vincent Lopez and His Suave Swing Orchestra, and there's nothing from the not-yet-out-of-copyright-in-Europe 1959 Warner Bros LP Betty Hutton at the Saints and Sinners Ball.
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