The Whiffenpoof Song - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Galloway
Pale Potomac Moon - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Godfrey
I Only Want a Buddy-Not a Sweetheart - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Jones
So You Left Me for the Leader of the Swing Band - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Gottler
He, She and Me [El, Ella y Yo] - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Lombardo
Knocking at Your Door - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Rothman
Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Fields
Alexander the Swoose (Half Swan, Half Goose) - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Buris
You and Me - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Freed
Pensylvania Polka - Gloria Hart/Art Kassel, Lee
Gloria Hart Sang for Nearly 20 Years with the Popular Chicago-based Art Kassel Orchestra. She also Made a Successful Foray Into Early Rock and Roll with "Nickels, Quarters and Dimes" and "China Boy." 55 Tracks Including Ra... more »re Recordings Donated by the Maar Sound Archive, and Popular Recordings "All Right, Louis, Drop the Gun," "One Dozen Roses," "oh! How I Love You," and "i Would Rather Look at You." Original Radio Broadcasts from the "Art Kassel Show". Plus Early Recordings with Vocalists Jimmy Featherstone, Marion Holmes, Billy Leach and Art Kassel Himself.« less
Gloria Hart Sang for Nearly 20 Years with the Popular Chicago-based Art Kassel Orchestra. She also Made a Successful Foray Into Early Rock and Roll with "Nickels, Quarters and Dimes" and "China Boy." 55 Tracks Including Rare Recordings Donated by the Maar Sound Archive, and Popular Recordings "All Right, Louis, Drop the Gun," "One Dozen Roses," "oh! How I Love You," and "i Would Rather Look at You." Original Radio Broadcasts from the "Art Kassel Show". Plus Early Recordings with Vocalists Jimmy Featherstone, Marion Holmes, Billy Leach and Art Kassel Himself.
CD Reviews
THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG VOICE
Barry McCanna | Normandy, France | 10/25/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Gloria Hart began singing in her teens, and was known as "The Little Girl With The Big Voice". She joined Art Kassel in early 1942 at the age of 23, replacing Marion Holmes, and remained with his "Kassels-In-The-Air" until after his death in early 1965. This set is a mixed bag insofar as it includes her three 1941 recordings with Raymond Scott, and the Art Kassel tracks number some radio transcription discs and Vogue picture discs, plus ten recordings by other vocalists. The discographical detail is inadequate to identify everything accurately, but so far as I can ascertain, the Vogue picture disc recordings (of which Art Kassel made eighteen) are "All I Do Is Wantcha", "The Echo Said No", "Let's Get Married", A Little Consideration", "Sooner Or Later", and "The Whiffenpoof Song". They would have been recorded between 1946 and 1947, and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" probably dates from 1962. Gloria Hart had a pleasant and versatile voice, and this CD demonstrates how Art Kassel continued to lead such a popular band long after their heyday had passed.
Track Listings (28) - Disc #1