Dick Haymes with Harry James and Benny Goodman - The Complete Columbia Recordings

Dick Haymes sang with three of the major big bands of the early 1940s before launching his solo career, and he recorded with two of them, the orchestras led by Harry James and Benny Goodman, on Columbia Records (there are only airchecks of his tenure with Tommy Dorsey, with whom he served next). The lion's share of the material heard on this two-CD set comes from his 1941 tenure with James, including his first Top Ten hit, Mel Tormé's composition "Lament to Love"; another chart hit, "A Sinner Kissed an Angel"; and "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)," which hit number one in 1944 as a reissue during the recording ban. Read More