Love Me Or Leave Me is also the Title of Living Era?s Generous Double Album of 51 Inimitable Ruth Etting Performances. No Fewer Than 37 of them were the Equivalent of "chart" Hits, Including 13 Top Fives. Among the Biggest... more » were the Poignant Ten Cents a Dance, her Ziegfeld Follies Showstopper Shaking the Blues Away, and the Fred Ahlert Songs I?ll Get By, Mean to Me and Life is a Song. And She is Heard Giving her Inimitable Treatment to Many of the Greatest ?standards?: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Close Your Eyes, I?ll Never Be the Same . . . This Last is a Prime Example of her Delightful ?trademark? of Changing Tempo Half Way Through a Song, as Are Crying for the Carolines, Nevertheless and the Irresistible it was So Beautiful.« less
Love Me Or Leave Me is also the Title of Living Era?s Generous Double Album of 51 Inimitable Ruth Etting Performances. No Fewer Than 37 of them were the Equivalent of "chart" Hits, Including 13 Top Fives. Among the Biggest were the Poignant Ten Cents a Dance, her Ziegfeld Follies Showstopper Shaking the Blues Away, and the Fred Ahlert Songs I?ll Get By, Mean to Me and Life is a Song. And She is Heard Giving her Inimitable Treatment to Many of the Greatest ?standards?: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Close Your Eyes, I?ll Never Be the Same . . . This Last is a Prime Example of her Delightful ?trademark? of Changing Tempo Half Way Through a Song, as Are Crying for the Carolines, Nevertheless and the Irresistible it was So Beautiful.