Ruth Etting - All The Hits And More 1926-37 / Ruth Etting, who acquired the nickname "America's Sweetheart Of Song", was a singer and actress who was one of the most popular and successful performers during the 1920s and early '30s, but who retired from the business in 1937 when she was about 40 years old. She performed regularly on the Broadway stage and many of her 60 and more hit songs were early versions of Great American Songbook classics from the popular musicals and revues of the era. This 71-track 3-CD collection comprises all her 62 records which are listed as hits, along with selected other recordings of some of the great songs of the time from her releases on the Columbia, Melotone, Brunswick, Banner and Decca labels. It features her No. 1 with "Life is A Song", and her other classic hits "'Deed I Do", "Love Me Or Leave Me", "Back In Your Own Back Yard", "Ten Cents A Dance", "I'll Get By", "Mean To Me", "Guilty", "Body And Soul", "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "Try A Little Tenderness" and many more. This collection offers a thoroughly enjoyable showcase for a performer who was a highly distinctive vocalist, with a very personal way with a song, and her music was very much of it's era.

Track List

1. Let's Talk About My Sweetie
2. Lonesome And Sorry
3. But I Do You Know I Do
4. (I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of You
5. Deed I Do
6. Sam The Old Accordion Man
7. It All Depends On You
8. Hoosier Sweetheart (Say Who)
9. Wistful And Blue
10. (What Do We Do) On A Dew-Dew-Dewy Day
11. After You've Gone
12. I'm Nobody's Baby
13. It All Belongs To Me
14. Shaking The Blues Away
15. The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)
16. Together We Two
17. Keep Sweeping Cobwebs Off The Moon
18. Back In Your Own Back Yard
19. When You're With Somebody Else
20. Ramona
21. Say Yes Today
22. Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now
23. Beloved
24. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
25. Sonny Boy
26. My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now
27. Love Me Or Leave Me
28. I'm Bringing A Red Red Rose
29. You're The Cream In My Coffee
30. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
31. Glad Rag Doll
32. Mean To Me
33. Button Up Your Overcoat
34. Deep Night
35. Ain't Misbehavin'
36. What Wouldn’t I Do For That Man
37. The Right Kind Of Man
38. More Than You Know
39. Cryin' For The Carolines
40. Ten Cents A Dance
41. A Cottage For Sale
42. Exactly Like You
43. It Happened In Monterey
44. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
45. The Kiss Waltz
46. Don't Tell Her What Happened To Me
47. Body And Soul
48. Just A Little Closer
49. I'll Be Blue Just Thinking Of You (From Now On)
50. Laughing At Life
51. Reaching For The Moon
52. Overnight
53. Love Is Like That (What Can You Do)?
54. Falling In Love Again
55. Were You Sincere
56. Moonlight Saving Time
57. I'm Good For Nothing But Love
58. Now That You're Gone
59. Guilty
60. Good Night Sweetheart
61. Cuban Love Song
62. When We're Alone (Penthouse Serenade)
63. The Night When Love Was Born
64. It Was So Beautiful
65. Try A Little Tenderness
66. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
67. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
68. Life Is A Song (Let's Sing It Together)
69. Shine On Harvest Moon
70. In The Chapel In The Moonlight
71. May I Have The Next Romance With You