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Title: An album that made me call the station.........
Review: About twenty years ago, I tuned in to a local college radio station ( WRTI) and heard a voice that sent the proverbial chills up my spine. When the DJ did not announce the singer's name after the song was over, I called the station and found out that it was Johnny Hartman singing ,"Joey, Joey, Joey" from Frank Loesser's "Most Happy Fella". I immediately went out and bought the album and it has remained one of my favorites to this day. His baritone is so smooth and the arrangements are wonderful. I started to write Mr. Hartman a fan letter, but I learned that sadly, he had died rather young of lung cancer. Singers like Billy Eckstine got a lot more fanfare at one time( I am a fan of his, too), but Hartman's voice just stays with you. I really felt vindicated in my admiration when I read in Ella Fitzgerald's obituary that he had been her favorite singer! Can't get much more of a recommmendation than that, and you can't go wrong with any of his albums.
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