Julie London - The Best of the Liberty Years

This is a strange compilation, awfully strange. First, there's the photograph on the front. When the title says The Best of the Liberty years, one would assume that the material it is talking about is from the entire period. But the photo looks pre-1955. It looks like it was taken long before she ever recorded "Cry Me a River." And that's the other strange thing: that track is the only pre-'60s cut on this set. It opens the collection, being recorded in 1955, and then everything skips to her last moment at Liberty, which was "Fly Me to the Moon." The rest of the material dates from 1961 and 1963 -- very odd indeed. Read More