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Lyn Stanley: The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 1
by C. Michael Bailey
With release of her various audiophile editions (LP, CD, reel-to-reel) of The Moonlight Sessions, Volume 1, Lyn Stanley brings into clear focus the driving forces behind her previous three releases: Lost in Romance (A.T. Music, LLC, 2011); Potions: From the '50s (A.T. Music, LLC, 2014); and Interludes (A.T. Music, LLC, 2015). These forces include: one, reestablishing ...
Discover Lyn Stanley: New CD In Development "Looking For Angel Eyes"
“To Lyn-A Great Talent!” –Sammy Nestico He chose these words to inscribe Lyn Stanley’s copy of his autobiography. Music was always part of Stanley’s life. Her mother was a spirited jitterbug dancer, her father was an enthusiastic amateur jazz pianist and her grandfather was a trained opera singer. Despite this grounding in the arts, Stanley’s mother ...
Marlene VerPlanck: The Mood I’m In
by C. Michael Bailey
Marlene VerPlanck has been recording since 1955. In round numbers, that is 60 years. She is a natural singer in the same way that Frank Sinatra, Roseanna Vitro, and Lyn Stanley are natural singers... they open their respective mouths and music just comes out. And, at the far end of this career, VerPlanck sounds very good. ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2015
by C. Michael Bailey
It is easy this year, only vocal music...twelve months, twelve releases. Lyn Stanley Potions: From the '50s We Baby Boomers are a persnickety bunch. We revel in our nostalgia while keeping a jaundiced eye on current trends and how derivative they are compared with those we experienced when ...
Lyn Stanley: Interludes
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/producer Lyn Stanley has established herself as a foremost stylist of the Great American Songbook. That is no mean feat. The sheer amount of vocal music made each year around the Songbook is impressive. It is too bad that the quality of a great many of those recordings is not equally impressive. Stanley's two previous recordings, ...
Potions: From the ‘50s
By Lyn Stanley
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Lullaby of Birdland; Cry Me A River; Fly Me to the Moon; Hey There; I’m
Walkin’; You Don’t Know Me; In the Still of the Night; The Thrill is
Gone; A Summer Place; Love Potion #9; Teach Me Tonight; After the Lights
Go Down Low; Misty; The Party’s Over; The Man I Love.
Lyn Stanley: Potions: From the ‘50s
by C. Michael Bailey
We Baby Boomers are a persnickety bunch. We revel in our nostalgia while keeping a jaundiced eye on current trends and how derivative they are compared with those we experienced when they were really new. Critics dismiss this nostalgia as wasted pathos, pining away for what can never be again. That is missing the point. Memory ...
Lost In Romance
By Lyn Stanley
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Change Partners; Watch What Happens; Fever; That Old Black Magic;
Nearness of You; You Go to My Head; I Just Wanna Make Love to You; My
Foolish Heart; What Am I Gonna Do With A Bad Boy Like You?; Losing My
Mind; One For My Baby; Sugar On The Floor; Too Close for Comfort;
Something; The Last Dance.
Lyn Stanley: Lost In Romance
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A hardened cynic might presume that the song royalty beneficiaries of the estates of Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin and other song giants would mercenarily welcome yet another Great American Songbook-rich recording by a female vocalist. However, when those warhorse ("wornhorse?") compositions--and a few shrewdly selected other ones--are sent up tails-and-gowns ...
