Self Titled, released in 1959 by Verve Records. Re-released 1989.
Self Titled, released in 1959 by Verve Records. Re-released 1989.
"Miss Dearie doesn't have a big voice, but it is a firm, fresh well-controlled voice with a good deal of humour and, where she wills it, tenderness and warmth. It is, moreover, and -- the facts must be faced squarely -- sexy. Once you have heard it, Miss Dearie's voice is not one you'll confuse with anyone else's. Apart from the voice, Miss Dearie interprets the lyrics with a very special feeling for their -- in the full sense of the term -- lyric quality. And in a number of instances, where appropriateness is the reason, the words are sung in French -- not, one feels obliged to add, in the self-consciously mannered style of the supper-club chanteuses, but with a direct, compelling kind of home-grown charm."
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