Lee Wiley ‎– West Of The Moon

 

You're A Sweetheart 2:53

This Is New 2:55

You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby 2:58

Who Can I Turn To Now? 3:52

My Ideal 3:22

Can't Get Out Of This Mood 3:13

East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) 3:33

I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain 3:48

Moonstruck 3:40

Limehouse Blues 3:02

As Time Goes By 3:12

Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now 2:47

1957

American jazz singer.

Born : October 09, 1908 in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.

Died : December 11, 1975 in New York City, New York.

Lee was a popular singer jazz active from the early 1930s up to 1972 when she withdrew from the musical scene.

Wiley began her radio career at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She sang on the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt program on NBC in 1932, and was featured on Victor Young's radio show in 1933. From June 10, 1936, until September 2, 1936, she had her own show, Lee Wiley, on CBS.

In 1939, Wiley recorded eight Gershwin songs on 78s with a small group for Liberty Music Shop Records. The set sold well and was followed by 78s dedicated to the music of Cole Porter (1940) and Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (1940 and 1954), Harold Arlen (1943), and 10" LPs dedicated to the music of Vincent Youmans and Irving Berlin (1951).

The players on these recordings included Bunny Berigan, Bud Freeman, Max Kaminsky, Fats Waller, Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon, Stan Freeman, Cy Walter, and the bandleader Jess Stacy, to whom Wiley was married for a number of years. These influential albums launched the concept of a "songbook" (often featuring lesser-known songs), which was later widely imitated by other singers.