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Marlene Ver Planck: My Impetuous Heart

Read "My Impetuous Heart" reviewed by Andrew Velez

by Andrew Velez
April 13, 2007

For those who imagine Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics are strictly designed for nuns chirping about larks learning to pray, check out Marlene Ver Planck's Baccarat chiseling of his “All in Fun, as set to Jerome Kern's music, from this reissued 1999 session. The great lyricist could scarcely have a better interpreter to reveal the depth of feeling in this bittersweet urban love gem. Savor how she touches down lightly on “We are seen around New York...just a fellow and a girl ...

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Album Review

Marlene Ver Planck: My Impetuous Heart

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2000

She's come a long, long way from the time she set commercials on end by singing those three words which set the jingle world on its ear, “mmm-mmm-good", kicking off a commercial idolization of Campbell's Soups. My Impetuous Heart, her 16th album and first for DRG, makes manifest that the voice is as light, as lilting, as clear and as entertaining as ever was. The Hank Jones Trio provides the bulk of Ver Planck's backing. Jones, along with Tommy Flanagan, ...