OK, let's get this straight...
ironvulture | Denver, CO USA | 10/02/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"In the 50s, Monica Lewis recorded an album under the direction of Jack Kelly & his ensemble. The album was called Fools Rush In, and featured the song of that name. That's this album here. It's a nice 50s pop-jazz-easy album. In 1997, Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek starred in a romantic comedy called Fools Rush In. The movie featured original score music by Alan Silvestri, as well as several older numbers (by Elvis Presley and others). THERE WAS NO SOUNDTRACK RELEASED FOR THE FILM, probably due to licensing issues. This Monica Lewis CD is not the soundtrack to the 1997 film. I believe all of the songs heard in the film Fools Rush In are available, just not together on one CD. Track down your favorites individually.This Monica Lewis album, although not the soundtrack to the movie, is still very good, though."
Corrected Info
Jazzcat | 06/15/2004
(3 out of 5 stars)
"There WAS a soundtrack to the Movie FOOLS RUSH IN with Matthew Perry, but it is very rare. Sadly, this is not it."
Fascinating
Jazzcat | Genoa, Italy Italy | 08/04/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"For those who don't know Monica I'll paste here something I found in the web which is a nice profile. "For almost two decades (the forties and fifties) Monica Lewis was a certified pop music and pop culture phenomenon - the rhapsodic vocal essence of the Jazz Age. She was the idealized, wholesomely sexy sound and image of apple-pie America, lending a melodious voice of hope to thousands of U.S. troops through two of the 20th century's greatest wars. She was the magazine cover girl with the mile-wide smile and the ad world's Most Wanted with the million-dollar legs. On the screen and on the airwaves...". This album is a swing encounter between her and pianist arranger Jack Kelly plus of course his ensemble. The music has the special flavour of the era, the fifties (if I'm not going wrong it's from 1958) and it is nice and enjoyable. I gave it only four stars because the song are just songs and Monica's approach is not special enough to let this album be really something different. This is not a Jazz album in a sense because there are not improvisations of any kind by Monica but neither from Jack Kelly ensemble. If you think that in those same years world already knew Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'day, that were not only singers, but jazz musicians of the highest caliber, maybe you like me, can think that Monica sounds a little predictable. Anyway I don't want to sound too critical, because I love this album, it is relaxing and I find myself coming back to it from time to time. Simply it is "just" a straight vocal album and you have to be prepared for what it is. But for what it is the album is very nice, the program interesting and the arrangements fine. Monica was a professional singer with a personality of her own but to me, not too different from the others singers of the era. "Fools rush in" is a good album for those interested in the music of the period. Best tunes to me are absolutly the opener "But Beautiful"; second position for the closing number "You don't know what love is" and bronze medal for "You make me feel so young". My last and best discovery in the vocal area is Irene Kral. She is truly a fabulous music treasure that I suggest to discover yourself."
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1