SUE RANEY

u.a. das frühe Philips-Album "Happiness Is A Warm" (PHM 200-160)..

1958 erschien die Capitol-LP "When Your Lover Has Gone", dann
die 1960er Capitol-LP "Songs For A Raney Day". Sie enthielt die
folgenden Tracks:
1. I Get the Blues When It Rains
2. Impossible
3. Blossom Fell
4. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
5. Whippoorwill Song
6. Rain
7. Rain on the Roof
8. Blue Tears
9. Exactly Like You
10. Wanna' Laugh?
11. My Prayer
12. September in the Rain

Blessed with a beautiful voice from an early age, Sue Raney has performed music ranging from swinging jazz and ballads to cabaret, middle-of-the-road pop and jingles. Her mother was a singer and a great great aunt had been in German opera. Raney started singing when she was four and a year later she first performed in public, at a party in Wichita, Kansas. Because a voice teacher could not be found for her daughter (because of her extreme youth), Raney's mother took voice lessons herself and then passed down what she learned to Sue. A professional before she was a teenager, Raney worked steadily in New Mexico when her family relocated and took several trips out to Los Angeles during a couple of summer vacations. She joined the Jack Carson radio show in 1954 in L.A. when she was barely 14. Raney then appeared on Ray Anthony's television program and became his band's main vocalist. At 18 she started working as a single. She had already recorded for Phillips and then signed with Capitol, recording several middle-of-the-road jazz-influenced pop dates for the company. In the 1960s Raney often appeared on television variety shows, she led her own group and became very active in the studios where her impressive voice helped sell products. By the early 1980s she was also working as a voice teacher. In the 1990s Raney sang with the L.A. Voices and Supersax, the Bill Watrous big band and as a single, in addition to staying active as a jazz educator and in the studios.
"When Your Lover Has Gone" was her first '58 album release after signing with Capitol. As mentioned above, she was then only 18. At this time Capitol Records had two leading jazz-oriented pop singers on its roster -- June Christy and Peggy Lee -- so when young Sue joined the club she found it difficult to compete and became somewhat outshone by these two luminaries. Not surprisingly the few albums Raney cut for Capitol just didn't take off as hoped. However, there was a definite hint here of the star talent that carried her through the next 40 or so years. As far as I know Sue is still around and as recently as two years ago recorded a great tribute album to Doris Day called "Heart's Desire".
As with Mavis River's first release for Capitol, Sue gets huge support here from the then current studio arranger, Nelson Riddle. Two years later Billy May partnered her on "Songs For A Raney Day".
Side 1:
01) When Your Lover Has Gone
02) I Stayed Too Long At The Fair
03) If I Could Be With You
04) My Ideal
05) It Looks Like Rain
06) It's Easy To Remember
Side 2:
01) Moon Song
02) Heart And Soul
03) If You Were There
04) My Silent Love
05) I Remember You
06) I'll See You In My Dreams

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und Sue Raney mit.....

Nat King Cole

Ray Anthony

Dean Martin

und den Four Freshmen