LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Best known as the creator of Dragnet, Jack Webb was at a creative peak at the close of the 1950s when he recorded two albums for the then-just-launching Warner Bros. Records. Both of these are now available on a single disc titled Just The Tracks, Ma'am: The Warner Bros. Recordings.It was while making Pete Kelly's Blues and The D.I. for Warner Bros. Pictures that Webb was offered the opportunity to make these albums. The first of these, You're My Girl: Romantic Reflections by Jack Webb, was released in 1958 on the new label. Imagine, if you would, Sgt. Friday reading "Deep Thoughts" and then add a sumptuous musical bed of lush Billy May orchestrations, and you pretty much get the idea.Jack’s second WB album was Jack Webb Presents Pete Kelly Lets His Hair Down. The word "Presents" in the title tips listeners off that our man appears nowhere in its grooves. Lets His Hair Down is a collection of jazz instrumental improvisations from the same group of session players that had worked on the original Pete Kelly's Blues film and soundtrack album. It is divided into six songs played in a "blue" tempo and seven songs played in a "red" tempo (hence the colorful track titles).Both of these albums have been out of print since before most of you were born. Each has been remastered from the original "Vitaphonic High Fidelity, The First Name In Sound" stereo masters and neither album has ever before been on compact disc.Who really wrote "the book of love"? Why, Mr. Jack Webb, of course. And, with the re-release of these Warner Bros. recordings, he will conclusively prove it -- beyond any reasonable doubt. Case Closed.Just The Tracks Ma’am: The Warner Bros. Recordings is available as an individually numbered limited edition of 3,000 copies.
TRACK LISTING You Are Too Beautiful (2:24 ) Nancy (3:25 ) Try A Little Tenderness (2:45 ) Stranger In Town (2:40 ) You're Not In My Arms Tonight (2:45 ) Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful) (2:44 ) You'd Never Know The Old Place Now (4:00 ) I Thought About Marie (2:33 ) But Beautiful (3:18 ) You've Changed (2:42 ) When Sunny Gets Blue (2:43 ) You're My Girl (2:41 ) Peacock (3:23 ) Turquoise (2:44 ) Periwinkle (2:53 ) Midnight (2:56 ) Dresden (2:34 ) Sapphire (2:44 ) Flame (2:20 ) Magenta (2:40 ) Rouge (2:20 ) Carnation (2:14 ) Vandyke (2:06 ) Lobster (2:07 ) Fire Engine (2:14 )