Squeeze Me (Mono Remastered 2014) Sallie Blair

• 1 Squeeze Me (Remastered 2014) 03:19
• 2 Almost Like Being in Love (Remastered 2014) 03:06
• 3 Better Luck Next Time (Remastered 2014) 03:04
• 4 The More I See You (Remastered 2014) 03:11
• 5 You Make Me Feel so Young (Remastered 2014) 02:54
• 6 What Is This Thing Called Love? (Remastered 2014) 02:16
• 7 Come by Sunday (Remastered 2014) 02:29
• 8 Ain't She Sweet (Remastered 2014) 02:54
• 9 How Long Has This Been Going On? (Remastered 2014) 03:03
• 10 Then I'll Be Tired of You (Remastered 2014) 02:49
• 11 Similau (Remastered 2014) 02:47
• Total Runtime 31:52

Info zu Squeeze Me (Mono Remastered 2014)

Described by a 1957 Life Magazine article as "the best singer to turn up on the nightclub circuit", Sallie Blair, a little remembered vocalist who Miles Davis called "the brown Marilyn Monroe", had her brief moment in the spotlight, recording just two full albums and a few singles before returning to relative obscurity.

Squeeze Me, presented here, marked her first album under her own name, and features the singer backed by a variety of groups including such jazzmen as Sal Salvador, Urbie Green, and Mongo Santamaria, with pianist Richard Wessacting as arranger and conductor.

Bernie Glow, trumpet
Frank LoPinto, trumpet
Al Derisi, trumpet
Joe Cabot, trumpet
Urbie Green, trombone
Frank Rehak, trombone
Chauncey Welsch, trombone
Frank Socolow, woodwinds
Romeo Penque, woodwinds
Joe Soldo, woodwinds
Jerry Sanfino, woodwinds
Sanford Gold, piano
Sal Salvador, guitar
Milt Hinton, bass
Sol Gubin, drums
Willie Bobo, bongos
Mongo Santamaria, congas

Digitally remastered MONO recording

Sallie Blair
Best known for her live performances, her bombshell image—packaging herself "in skin-clinging gowns and torrid toreador pants [her trademark look] which showcase them to their best advantage"—dubbed the "brown Marilyn Monroe" by Miles Davis when Blair rocked the blonde hairdo—undergoing an array of hair colors through her career as mentioned in THE AFRO-AMERICAN January 5, 1957 issue, GREEN HAIR IS BECOMING, assorting across blonde, silver, red, green, black, and even white—Sallie Blair had a professional career performing as a band act with Johnny Otis and Duke Ellington (after graduating from high school) before joining Cab Calloway's COTTON CLUB REVUE, where she was the star female role, and eventually emerging as a solo artist when the ensemble gigs grew tiresome for the artist.

"SALLIE, SEASON'S HIT SINGER — Twenty-three-year-old Sallie Blair from Baltimore has a full-bodied voice, a habit of kicking off her shoes in the middle of a number and the reputation of being the best girl singer to turn up on the nightclub circuit in half a dozen years." (1957, LIFE Magazine)

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