Ink Spots - The Hits Collection 1939-51 The Ink Spots, along with the Mills Brothers, were one of the leading early doowop vocal groups during the decades spanning WWII, bringing together the influences of barber-shop quartets, gospel and jazz to create a sound and style that appealed to the mainstream pop market. Employing a distinctive guitar introduction, and using the "top and bottom" technique that contrasted the high tenor lead vocal of Bill Kenny with the bass voice of Orville Jones delivering a spoken verse, they developed a successful formula that was all their own, and between 1939 and 1951 they had around 50 hits in the various incarnations of the charts. In fact they had too many hits for us to be able to include all of them in this great-value 48-track 2-CD collection, which features all their Top 30 pop hits and all their Top 10 R&B hits, plus a few more, including those with Ella Fitzgerald. It features the No. 1s "Address Unknown", "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)", "I'm Making Believe", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", "The Gypsy", and "To Each His Own" plus the R&B No.1s "I Can't Stand Losing You" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore". It's a concentrated presentation of their very best recordings, featuring their highly individual treatments of some of the finest songs of the era, and it's a marvellous showcase for their unique style of music.
17 I'm Still Without a Sweetheart ('Cause I'm Still in Love with You)
18 So Sorry
19 Until the Real Thing Comes Along
20 I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
21 Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
22 Ev'ry Night About This Time
23 Just As Though You Were Here
24 This Is Worth Fighting for
- Disc 2 -
1 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2 If I Cared a Little Bit Less (And You Cared a Little More)
3 I Can't Stand Losing You
4 I'll Never Make the Same Mistake Again
5 Don't Believe Everything You Dream
6 A Lovely Way to Spend An Evening
7 Cow Cow Boogie
8 I'll Get By
9 Someday I'll Meet You Again
10 I'm Making Believe
11 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
12 I'm Beginning to See the Light
13 The Gypsy
14 Prisoner of Love
15 To Each His Own
16 You Can't See the Sun When You're Crying
17 Ask Anyone Who Knows
18 The Best Things in Life Are Free
19 Say Something Sweet to Your Sweetheart
20 You Were Only Fooling
21 You're Breaking My Heart
22 Who Do You Know in Heaven (That Made You the Angel You Are)
23 Echoes
24 If
Ink Spots - The Hits Collection 1939-51 The Ink Spots, along with the Mills Brothers, were one of the leading early doowop vocal groups during the decades spanning WWII, bringing together the influences of barber-shop quartets, gospel and jazz to create a sound and style that appealed to the mainstream pop market. Employing a distinctive guitar introduction, and using the "top and bottom" technique that contrasted the high tenor lead vocal of Bill Kenny with the bass voice of Orville Jones delivering a spoken verse, they developed a successful formula that was all their own, and between 1939 and 1951 they had around 50 hits in the various incarnations of the charts. In fact they had too many hits for us to be able to include all of them in this great-value 48-track 2-CD collection, which features all their Top 30 pop hits and all their Top 10 R&B hits, plus a few more, including those with Ella Fitzgerald. It features the No. 1s "Address Unknown", "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)", "I'm Making Believe", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", "The Gypsy", and "To Each His Own" plus the R&B No.1s "I Can't Stand Losing You" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore". It's a concentrated presentation of their very best recordings, featuring their highly individual treatments of some of the finest songs of the era, and it's a marvellous showcase for their unique style of music.
