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Eartha Kitt: Eartha-Quake (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

5-CD box (LP-size) with 40-page book, 132 tracks. Playing time approx. 380 mns.

She truly needs no introduction. All we need to tell you is that this collection includes everything from Eartha's first decade as a recording artist: the highly acclaimed RCA recordings, as well as her Kapp and Seeco sides. We have also included the songs from her American return show, "New Faces of 1952", as well as her first recordings from Paris in 1950. Other bonuses include her ultra-rare Swedish recordings and her songs from "Mrs. Patterson" and the W.C. Handy biopic. I Want To Be Evil, C'Est Si Bon, Uska Dara, African Lullaby, Santa Baby, Let's Do It, My Heart Belongs To Daddy, Apres Moi, Mink Schmink,
Dinner For One Please James, Just An Old Fashioned Girl, There's No Cure For L'Amour, Thursday's Girl, Toujours Gai, Mack The Knife.
..and many, many more!

Article properties:Eartha Kitt: Eartha-Quake (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Eartha Kitt

  • Album titlle: Eartha-Quake (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Genre Pop

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127156396

  • weight in Kg 1.4
Kitt, Eartha - Eartha-Quake (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01-Eartha Kitt
02Annie Doesn't Live Here Any MoreEartha Kitt
03Lilac WineEartha Kitt
04I Want To Be EvilEartha Kitt
05C'est Si BonEartha Kitt
06Two LoversEartha Kitt
07Mountain High, Valley LowEartha Kitt
08Angelitos NegrosEartha Kitt
09Uska DaraEartha Kitt
10Avril Au Portugal (April In Portugal)Eartha Kitt
11African LullabyEartha Kitt
12SenorEartha Kitt
13Santa BabyEartha Kitt
14Under The Bridges Of ParisEartha Kitt
15Oh John! (Please Don't Kiss Me)Eartha Kitt
16Let's Do ItEartha Kitt
17SalangadouEartha Kitt
18Sandy's TuneEartha Kitt
19Smoke Gets In Your EyesEartha Kitt
20The BluesEartha Kitt
21My Heart Belongs To DaddyEartha Kitt
22Lovin' SpreeEartha Kitt
23Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding BellEartha Kitt
24Looking For A BoyEartha Kitt
25Lonely GirlEartha Kitt
26Easy Does ItEartha Kitt
27I Wantcha AroundEartha Kitt
28Apres MoiEartha Kitt
29Mink ShminkEartha Kitt
30This Year's Santa BabyEartha Kitt
31Hey JacqueEartha Kitt
32Strangers In The StarlightEartha Kitt
33Do You RememberEartha Kitt
34The Day That The Circus Left TownEartha Kitt
35The HeelEartha Kitt
36Mambo De PareeEartha Kitt
37I've Got That Lovin' Bug ItchEartha Kitt
38Dinner For One Please, JamesEartha Kitt
39My Heart's DelightEartha Kitt
40Freddy (& PEREZ PRADO)Eartha Kitt
41Sweet And Gentle (& PEREZ PRADO)Eartha Kitt
42Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Racoon)Eartha Kitt
43Nobody Taught MeEartha Kitt
44Nothin' For ChristmasEartha Kitt
45Je Cherche Un Homme (I Want A Man)Eartha Kitt
46If I Can't Take It With MeEartha Kitt
47Just An Old Fashioned GirlEartha Kitt
48Mademoiselle KittEartha Kitt
49OggereEartha Kitt
50No Importa Si MentiEartha Kitt
51Lazy AfternoonEartha Kitt
52There Is No Cure For L'AmourEartha Kitt
53Lisbon AntiguaEartha Kitt
54Lullaby Of BirdlandEartha Kitt
55JonnyEartha Kitt
56There Is No Cure For L'AmourEartha Kitt
57Fascinating ManEartha Kitt
58Thursday's ChildEartha Kitt
59Le Danseur De CharlestonEartha Kitt
60Honolulu Rock And RollEartha Kitt
61Vid Kajen (swedish)Eartha Kitt
62Rosenkyssar (swedish)Eartha Kitt
63Put More Wood On The FireEartha Kitt
64EnoughEartha Kitt
65I'm A Funny DameEartha Kitt
66A Woman Wouldn't Be A WomanEartha Kitt
67Toujour GaiEartha Kitt
68Waydown BluesEartha Kitt
69Proceed With CautionEartha Kitt
70Yomme, YommeEartha Kitt
71Take My Love, Take My LoveEartha Kitt
72Careless LoveEartha Kitt
73Beale Street BluesEartha Kitt
74Hesitating BluesEartha Kitt
75The Memphis BluesEartha Kitt
76Atlanta BluesEartha Kitt
77Friendless BluesEartha Kitt
78Yellow Dog BluesEartha Kitt
79Chantez Les BasEartha Kitt
80St. Louis BluesEartha Kitt
81Long GoneEartha Kitt
82Steal AwayEartha Kitt
83Hist The Window, NoahEartha Kitt
84ShangoEartha Kitt
85SholemEartha Kitt
86Torah Dance (Kim'tzion)Eartha Kitt
87Tierra Va TemblarEartha Kitt
88Mack The KnifeEartha Kitt
89I'd Rather Be Burned As A WitchEartha Kitt
90IndependentEartha Kitt
91Love Is A GambleEartha Kitt
92Yellow BirdEartha Kitt
93Jambo HippopotamiEartha Kitt
94In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)Eartha Kitt
95LamplightEartha Kitt
96Apres MoiEartha Kitt
97My Heart Belongs to DaddyEartha Kitt
98Let's Do ItEartha Kitt
99Lilac WineEartha Kitt
100C'est Si BonEartha Kitt
101I Want to Be EvilEartha Kitt
102A Wantcha AroundEartha Kitt
103Uska DaraEartha Kitt
104Santa BabyEartha Kitt
105Just An Old Fashioned GirlEartha Kitt
106Angelitos NegrosEartha Kitt
107April In PortugalEartha Kitt
108Johnny With The Gentle Hands (take 7)Eartha Kitt
109Johnny With The Gentle Hands (take 8)Eartha Kitt
110MonotonousEartha Kitt
111Love Is A Simple ThingEartha Kitt
112Bal Petit BalEartha Kitt
113OvertureEartha Kitt
114Dialogue: Mrs. PattersonEartha Kitt
115Mrs. PattersonEartha Kitt
116Devil SceneEartha Kitt
117If I Was A BoyEartha Kitt
118The FantasyEartha Kitt
119I Wish I Was A Bumble BeeEartha Kitt
120Card Game SceneEartha Kitt
121Be Good, Be Good, Be GoodEartha Kitt
122Tea Party SceneEartha Kitt
123Tea In ChicagoEartha Kitt
124Tea Party Scene (cont.)Eartha Kitt
125My Daddy Is A DandyEartha Kitt
126FinaleEartha Kitt
127Tea In Chicago (reprise)Eartha Kitt
128I Can't Give You Anything But LoveEartha Kitt
129SolitudeEartha Kitt
130Since I Feel For YouEartha Kitt
131What Is This Thing Called LoveEartha Kitt
132Tierra Va TemblarEartha Kitt
133Callete (Caliente)Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt Eartha-Quake (5-CD) Orson Welles called her "the most exciting woman in... more
"Eartha Kitt"

Eartha Kitt

Eartha-Quake (5-CD)

Orson Welles called her "the most exciting woman in the world."Singer, dancer, actress, writer, activist and icon, the world was Eartha Kitt's cultural playpen. Willfully exotic, a multilingual, genetically engineered sex-kitten with an IQ to match any Harvard cat, her international celebrity wasn't simply American fame exported overseas - like Elvis or Peggy Lee or Lena Horne. Eartha bathed herself in the cultures of the world - hobnobbed with Churchill, Nehru and Einstein - and emerged a star scented with far-flung trappings, who was at the same time, fundamentally, unmistakably American.

The public knew her as a glamorous star who in the 1950s and '60s, inhabited Broadway, movies, nightclubs and television with equal élan and ferocity (to a generation, her portrayal of Catwoman on the TV series 'Batman' cemented her legend), while recording novelty hits like Santa Baby and C'est si bon.

There were two Earthas come through in her dual persona: stylized purring for jewelry and mink in the preponderance of records that seemed to dwell on that topic, and her outspoken remarks against the Vietnam war that alienated enough of the establishment so that she had to head for Europe to ride out her career derailment. On this compelling CD - originally released in 1958 as the album 'St. Louis Blues,' with the trumpeter Shorty Rogers and his orchestra, Bear Family has captured a musical side of Kitt all too often overlooked - the soulful singer of formidable artistic versatility and heart.

It features selections from the Paramount movie, 'St. Louis Blues', about the life of W. C. Handy, in which Eartha starred with Nat Cole (as Handy), and an all-star African-American cast. The songs here are not all technically blues, though all are credited to Handy's authorship, and these are some of the most satisfying and artfully rendered cuts of Eartha's career. They show that even if grown over with the trappings of international glamour, the singer's southern roots always remained.

She was born Eartha Mae Keith, on January 17, 1927, in the small town of North, South Carolina - sharecropper country, amid what once had been cotton plantations. A childhood oppressed by soul-crushing, rural privation and abandonment gave way to adolescence in the cosmopolitan air of New York City (shuttled among relatives and friends). Her re-invention would begin early, as a member of Katherine Dunham's dance troupe. Orson Welles cast her on Broadway in his production of 'Dr. Faustus,' and her breakout performance came in the Broadway revue, 'New Faces Of 1952,' which Hollywood filmed two years later as the movie, 'New Faces.' She continued to acquire the polish of stage, nightclub, recording and movie stardom - her standout career film appearance being her role as the nightclub singer Gogo Germaine.

This CD shows Eartha refreshingly down-to-earth, as she insinuates her way around Hesitating Blues (originally popularized by Blossom Seely), Yellow Dog Blues (which Eartha sang in the movie) and Memphis Blues, Handy's first hit, and the first published blues to be documented (homage here, to Leonard Feather, who wrote this album's original liner notes).

Her artistic cohort on this album is trumpeter Shorty Rogers, who was one of the leading creators of West Coast Jazz. Born Milton Michael Rajonsky in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1924, Rogers was an alumnus of Woody Herman's and Stan Kenton's bands, and had also worked early on with vibraphone pioneer Red Norvo. Based in Los Angeles, he performed with his own group (as Shorty Rogers and His Giants), and recorded a series of albums for RCA Victor and Atlantic. But he also became (perhaps best) known as a composer and arranger for numerous television shows, from 'Looney Tunes' and 'Mr. Magoo' to 'The Partridge Family;' and most significantly for the movies, where he helped bring jazz to the big screen in films like 'The Man With The Golden Arm' and 'The Wild One.'

Here, both the band, and the arrangements (mostly by Julian 'Matty' Matlock) are sublime. Eartha parries throughout with Rogers' trumpet and with a male vocal group on tracks like Beale Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and the sensational Long Gone (a true tale of a bank robber's daring escape from a Kentucky jail - Handy wrote the song with Chris Smith, who also wrote Ballin' The Jack). The two spirituals, Steal Away and Hist The Window, Noah, sung in the movie by Mahalia Jackson, are arranged here by Jester Hairston, and Eartha is backed by his spectacular gospel choir.

Blues or not, the result can only be described as joyful, from the first track to the last.

Deborah Grace Winer

Eartha Kitt Eartha-Quake (5-CD)
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Tracklist
Kitt, Eartha - Eartha-Quake (5-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 -
02 Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More
03 Lilac Wine
04 I Want To Be Evil
05 C'est Si Bon
06 Two Lovers
07 Mountain High, Valley Low
08 Angelitos Negros
09 Uska Dara
10 Avril Au Portugal (April In Portugal)
11 African Lullaby
12 Senor
13 Santa Baby
14 Under The Bridges Of Paris
15 Oh John! (Please Don't Kiss Me)
16 Let's Do It
17 Salangadou
18 Sandy's Tune
19 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
20 The Blues
21 My Heart Belongs To Daddy
22 Lovin' Spree
23 Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell
24 Looking For A Boy
25 Lonely Girl
26 Easy Does It
27 I Wantcha Around
28 Apres Moi
29 Mink Shmink
30 This Year's Santa Baby
31 Hey Jacque
32 Strangers In The Starlight
33 Do You Remember
34 The Day That The Circus Left Town
35 The Heel
36 Mambo De Paree
37 I've Got That Lovin' Bug Itch
38 Dinner For One Please, James
39 My Heart's Delight
40 Freddy (& PEREZ PRADO)
41 Sweet And Gentle (& PEREZ PRADO)
42 Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Racoon)
43 Nobody Taught Me
44 Nothin' For Christmas
45 Je Cherche Un Homme (I Want A Man)
46 If I Can't Take It With Me
47 Just An Old Fashioned Girl
48 Mademoiselle Kitt
49 Oggere
50 No Importa Si Menti
51 Lazy Afternoon
52 There Is No Cure For L'Amour
53 Lisbon Antigua
54 Lullaby Of Birdland
55 Jonny
56 There Is No Cure For L'Amour
57 Fascinating Man
58 Thursday's Child
59 Le Danseur De Charleston
60 Honolulu Rock And Roll
61 Vid Kajen (swedish)
62 Rosenkyssar (swedish)
63 Put More Wood On The Fire
64 Enough
65 I'm A Funny Dame
66 A Woman Wouldn't Be A Woman
67 Toujour Gai
68 Waydown Blues
69 Proceed With Caution
70 Yomme, Yomme
71 Take My Love, Take My Love
72 Careless Love
73 Beale Street Blues
74 Hesitating Blues
75 The Memphis Blues
76 Atlanta Blues
77 Friendless Blues
78 Yellow Dog Blues
79 Chantez Les Bas
80 St. Louis Blues
81 Long Gone
82 Steal Away
83 Hist The Window, Noah
84 Shango
85 Sholem
86 Torah Dance (Kim'tzion)
87 Tierra Va Temblar
88 Mack The Knife
89 I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch
90 Independent
91 Love Is A Gamble
92 Yellow Bird
93 Jambo Hippopotami
94 In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down)
95 Lamplight
96 Apres Moi
97 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
98 Let's Do It
99 Lilac Wine
100 C'est Si Bon
101 I Want to Be Evil
102 A Wantcha Around
103 Uska Dara
104 Santa Baby
105 Just An Old Fashioned Girl
106 Angelitos Negros
107 April In Portugal
108 Johnny With The Gentle Hands (take 7)
109 Johnny With The Gentle Hands (take 8)
110 Monotonous
111 Love Is A Simple Thing
112 Bal Petit Bal
113 Overture
114 Dialogue: Mrs. Patterson
115 Mrs. Patterson
116 Devil Scene
117 If I Was A Boy
118 The Fantasy
119 I Wish I Was A Bumble Bee
120 Card Game Scene
121 Be Good, Be Good, Be Good
122 Tea Party Scene
123 Tea In Chicago
124 Tea Party Scene (cont.)
125 My Daddy Is A Dandy
126 Finale
127 Tea In Chicago (reprise)
128 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
129 Solitude
130 Since I Feel For You
131 What Is This Thing Called Love
132 Tierra Va Temblar
133 Callete (Caliente)