MP3 Mary Morton - Wooing the Lorelei

Like those of Cole Porter or the Gershwins, Morton's songs transport you to chic nightclubs where the glamorous arrive dressed to the nines prepared to sip Pink Ladies, engage in sophisticated repartee, and dance cheek to cheek until the wee hours.

13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Swing/Big Band, EASY LISTENING: Cabaret



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Do you know the Lorelei? Someone, who, like the mythical Siren of the Rhine, lures you with mesmerizing song to foolish acts and emotional upheaval. If you do, and subscribe to the philosophy that it is better to have loved intensely and shipwrecked than to have never loved at all, songwriter Mary Morton has crafted an original and often hilarious collection of songs to help you celebrate the continuing search for an ideal love.

If you adore the scintillating, shimmering confluence of language, melody, and plangent harmony of some of the best songs from the 1920âs and 1930âs, like those of Cole Porter or George and Ira Gershwin, Mortonâs witty word play ingeniously mirrored by unexpected melodic turns, will be a delight for you to hear and sing. âCâmon and hear!,â to name three of my favorites, the samba exuberance of âKaralyn,â who is the worldâs sexiest sexagenarian librarian (âMove over, Marianâ); the gutsy honky-tonk shuffle of âDistract Meâ with the wordy but appealing protagonist who plaints âIâve a long and sordid history of spoiling what there is/By obsessing over what has yet to come./Full aware although I am of this confounded tendency,/How to terminate it I have yet to plumb;â and the quietly searching, tenderly chromatic, âAn Odd Fit.â

Expertly accompanied by Julie Spangler (piano), Tim Berens (guitar), Doug Richeson (bass), and Jim Rupp (drums and percussion), Morton performs her songs for all lovers, lovers of the English language, and singers (those who âsing outâ or those who just sing in the tub), an exciting musical homage to the Lorelei in your life.