Playing His Own Compositions
by Gordon Jenkins
- Type: Album
- Released: 1950-10-00
- Label: Decca
- Country: United States
- Length: 25:07
- Community rating: 2.7/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Highlighting his immense success as a commercial arranger and composer, Gordon Jenkins conducts his orchestra through a sweeping, highly sentimental collection of his own hits. The album relies heavily on lush, massed strings and dramatic choral backing, defining the cinematic, sometimes melancholy aesthetic of 1950s mood music. It is a quintessential artifact of pre-rock mainstream pop.
Genres
Descriptors: Piano
Tracklist
- You Have Taken My Heart (2:52)
- Blue Prelude (3:17)
- When A Woman Loves A Man (3:18)
- With You So Far Away (3:06)
- Homesick - That's All (3:15)
- P.S. I Love You (3:17)
- Blue Evening (2:57)
- Goodbye (3:05)
Credits
- Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra And Chorus - primary artist
- Bob Stevens - vocals [vocal chorus]
- Gordon Jenkins - written-by
- Johnny Mercer - written-by
- Bonnie Lou Williams - vocals [vocal chorus]
- Joe Bishop - written-by
- Bernie Hanighen - written-by
- Tom Adair - written-by
- Don Burke - vocals [vocal chorus]
- 4 Hits And A Miss - vocals [vocal chorus]