Tab Hunter (Remastered Edition) Tab Hunter

• 1 I Love You, Yes I Do 02:27
• 2 My Baby Just Cares for Me 02:35
• 3 I Want to Be with You Always 02:24
• 4 I'll Never Be Free 03:08
• 5 Time After Time 02:50
• 6 Candy 02:49
• 7 I Ain't Got Nobody 01:56
• 8 Let's Pretend There Is a Moon 02:15
• 9 After You've Gone 02:22
• 10 All Alone 02:48
• 11 But Beautiful 02:22
• 12 Funny 02:43
• Total Runtime 30:39

Info zu Tab Hunter (Remastered Edition)

Following the success of the single Young Love, a US chart topper for six weeks, plans were made for Tab Hunter to record a follow-up album. Unfortunately, at the time Tab was signed as an actor exclusively to Warner Brothers, and the Young Love single had appeared on the Dot label, owned by Paramount Pictures. Warner Brothers slapped a ban on Tab Hunter recording anything further for Dot but set up Warner Brothers Records specifically to cash in on this new found success. Whilst Tab's recording career eventually floundered, Warner Brothers went from success to success.

"This is 1950s teen idol heartthrob Tab Hunter's first long-player and was issued concurrent to his success as Joe Hardy in the 1958 cinematic adaptation of Damn Yankees. On this self-titled disc -- which ironically bears the subheading "Hits You Like a Thunderbolt!" on the rear album jacket -- Hunter warbles and croons (barely) through a dozen easy listening pop standards and ballads. Even though the seminal era of rock & roll was currently reinventing popular music, as the melodies on this disc suggest, there was still an obvious market for pretty boys with nominal talent. In fact, it was Hunter's persona alone that scored him a recording deal, even though the Warner Bros. studios had yet to formally establish their record label. The soon-to-be multimedia conglomerate scooped the actor away from the competing Dot Records, with the legal assertion that his 1953 contract was germane to all media endeavors, not strictly cinema. Even the top-flight team of musical director Marty Wilson and producer George Avakian are unable to evoke very much in the way of remarkable or memorable performances. It's not that these cover versions are poorly executed; they simply lack any immediately discernible qualities to separate them from the likes of Pat Boone, Fabian, or Jerry Vale. Hunter's unemotional reworkings of "Time After Time," "Let's Pretend There's a Moon," and "But Beautiful" are heavily augmented by rich, robust, and at times overbearing orchestration and dated choral enhancements. This is immediately evident on the opener, "I Love You, Yes I Do," which was much better suited to soulful readings by James Brown or the Platters. There are a few sides that are cool for kitsch sake, such as squeaky clean "My Baby Just Cares for Me," which actually contains the lines "Tab Hunter is not her style/And even Brando's smile/Is something she can't see." Likewise, the dated Hi Lo-esque background harmonies add to the antiquated sound, especially during the introduction of "After You've Gone" or the "doo-ba-doo-ba-doo-ba-doo" chorus that runs through "Funny" as if through a sieve. In 2003, Collectors' Choice Music brought Tab Hunter kicking and screaming into the digital domain." (Lindsay Planer, AMG)

Tab Hunter, vocals

Digitally remastered

Tab Hunter
A product of Hollywood’s golden age, Tab Hunter became Hollywood’s golden boy. His first starring role, at the tender age of 19, was opposite Linda Darnell in the romantic South Seas adventure Island of Desire. An instant success, Tab went on to star in over 40 major motion pictures, including Battle Cry, The Pleasure of His Company, That Kind of Woman, Gunman’s Walk, They Came to Cordura, Ride the Wild Surf, The Loved One, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and the Academy Award-nominated Damn Yankees. A few of Tab’s leading ladies include Sophia Loren, Natalie Wood, Gwen Verdon, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Debbie Reynolds, Kim Basinger and Michelle Pfeiffer. Multi-talented Tab also enjoyed a very successful recording career that culminated with one of the top records of the rock and roll era. His recording of Young Love zoomed to number one on the charts worldwide (knocking Elvis out of the top spot) where it remained for six weeks.

Tab subsequently starred in his own television series for NBC, was nominated for an Emmy for his performance opposite Geraldine Page in Playhouse 90’s Portrait of a Murderer and has guest starred in dozens of television shows. He also appeared on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead in Tennessee Williams’s The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.

Tab’s film career took off once again in the 1980s/90s as he starred in such films as John Waters’ Polyester, Grease 2, and the cult comedy-Western Lust in the Dust. Turning to producing, Tab teamed up with Allan Glaser to produce Lust in the Dust and Dark Horse.

Tab can now also add best selling author to his list of credits. His recently published autobiography TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL became a national best seller and garnered critical praise from the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, VANITY FAIR, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEW YORK POST, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, LARRY KING LIVE, CBS SUNDAY MORNING and dozens more.

An award winning feature film documentary also entitled Tab Hunter Confidential based on the book was released in 2015.

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