C'est Si Bon

Great collection of Kitts music !

I have many different version of this song of C'est si bon and just needed this one to complete all collections! Just excellent! I'm very happy!

I've been a fan of Eartha Kitt going way back (well back in the age of vinyl). A number of recording artists I have on vinyl are now being re-released on CDs. I think she was a unique talent with an ability to project and convey the substance of the songs she sang. I don't think she's everyone's cup of tea. You probably either like her or you don't; i.e., she's not going to grow on you over time. I don't know if knowing about her background would help you to understand her or not (look it up). If you do like her, you're going to revel in her ability to wink at you while singing and touching you with her torch.

GREAT 'golden oldies' music! Classic Eartha Kitt! They don't write songs like this often anymore and today's entertainers rarely are able to capture the 'essence' with good vocals like Eartha did.

I have several of her CD's. Her style is unique. Some of her music is duplicated on both my CD's.

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The caption above is the way Orson Welles once described Eartha May Kitt, who came into this world in South Carolina on January 17, 1927 and left us at age 81 on Christmas Day 2008. A true legend. When you hear people speak of "instantly recognizable voices" when discussing vocalists from the past, none leap to mind faster than rhis gorgeous lady. That purring, husky voice, always enunciating the lyrics so clear to the ear, immediately conjured up visions of a sexy temptress, turning almost any song into a personal dialogue between her and the listener. That her commercial success, in terms of hit singles in North America, was confined to just 6 in 1953/54 is owed more to the fact that she spent a lot of her time in Europe, primarily Paris, including the period just before she broke into North American prominence with her appearance in Broadway's "New Faces Of 1952." By 1955, R&R was taking over and not many of her type of pure song-stylists managed to hang on into the late 1950s and beyond, although she did turn out many fine albums. Her first notable appearance on this side of the Atlantic in a record came with the 1952 release of RCA Victor LOC 1008 "Leonard Sillman's New Face Of 1952 Original Broadway Cast" album in which she sings Bal Petit Bal with Robert Clary (in both English and French - she was fluent in several languages), and Monotonous, both with the backing of the Anton Coppola Orchestra, Then came the album RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt (RCA Victor LPM 3062) in early 1953 which linked her with the Henri Rene Orchestra, which would back her on all her coming hit singles. From that album you get Angelitos Negros (sung in Spanish) Avril au Portugal (in French), Lilac White (Dance Me A Song) and Mountain High, Valley Low. Also from that album, but also released as singles, were Uska Dara - A Turkish Tale (sung in Turkish) on RCA Victor 20-5284 b/w Two Lovers (not from the album and not here either), which hit # 23 in May 1953, C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) b/w African Lullaby (also in the album), which made it to # 8 in late July/early August on RCA Victor 20-5358, and I Want To Be Evil b/w Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore (not from the album but included here), which peaked at # 22 that September. Then came what has since become a Christmas standard, Santa Baby, which, b/w Under The Bridges Of Paris, rose all the way to # 4 in December 1953 on RCA Victor 20-5502. Also recorded in late 1953 was Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love), which was released as a single on RCA Victor 20-5737 b/w Senor (not here), but was also part of the album "That Bad Eartha" along with My Heart Belongs To Daddy, on RCA Victor LPM-3187. Aropund the same time came her last hit single, a double-sided hit with Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell (Who Got De Ding Dong), from The Copacabana Show of 1954, which rose to # 16 in February 1954 b/w Lovin' Spree, which managed a # 20 that month, and which unfortunately was left out of this compilation. Other singles appearing in 1954 were Mink Shmink (RCA Victor 20-5756), Tea In Chicago (RCA Victor 20-5883) and This Year's Santa Baby (RCA Victor 20-5914) but none charted. The other piece here, My Daddy Is A Dandy, appeared on the cast album of Mrs. Patterson, a play written for Eartha by Leonard Sillman in 1954. A truly enjoyable album from Naxos Nostalgia with great ADD sound, 2 pages of liner notes by well-known Canadian journalist and theatre critic for the Toronto Star, Richard Ouzounian, and a discography of the contents (but no chart details).

Nice selection of songs for easy listening. Variety of songs makes it easy to imagine one is sitting a small club seeing a live performance. Loved "Santa Baby", which must have seemed very risque at the time. This is my first purchase of her recordings. I will be looking for more!

ウ・シュクダラを聞きたくて買った。 江利ヴァージョンより、こちらの方が聞きやすいんですが、ビートルズカヴァーの原曲が収録されていないのが、残念です。 しかし、お買い得です。

My own fault, I should have read the track listing here on Amazon, but I bought the CD in the mistaken belief it was the Eartha Kitt album C'est Si Bon. It's not, it's a compilation album, and sadly missing the classics of the C'est Si Bon album itself.

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A dynamite singer that never got the attention she deserved. This cd has 20 tracks with some in French and believe it or not one track in Turkish. These selections cover the period of 1952 to 1954 and one can feel the emotion that Eartha Kitt puts these sides that make this a very good listen. John Walsh