Album Description2008 two CD set. Schmaltz... What a lovely word for over-sweet and corny music, for the sentimental, emotional sounds and singing produced by the great Jazz, TV and film stars of the 1940s and 1950s. The Best Of Schmaltz Vol. 1 presents a total of 43 of these schmaltzy, sentimental songs including songs from Bing Crosby, the king of the crooners, and Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Schmaltz unites them all: those unforgotten kings and queens of music so smooth it starts to ooze out of your CD player! Documents.