PAT SUZUKI – COMPLETE ALBUM SERIES – Two CD Set (STAGE DOOR RECORDS – STAGE 9055)
Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
To many people, Pat Suzuki will always be remembered as giving the definitive version of ‘I Enjoy Being a Girl’ from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song which she performed at least 600 times live on stage. Big shock when they came to make the film version and she was overlooked for Nancy Kwan with a dubbed singing voice.
Therefore, to those people it will come as a surprise that she was an exceedingly accomplished singer and had four albums released during the late 1950s and early 60s. None other than Bing Crosby stated that her voice was one in a million. So, it is with overwhelming delight I can bring you the news that Stage Door Records has released her four albums on a double CD set – and, of course as you would expect from this marvellous company, they have been remastered to bring out every nuance of this exceptional lady’s voice.
The four albums are: The Many Sides of Pat Suzuki, Pat Suzuki – Miss Ponytail, Pat Suzuki’s Broadway ’59 and Looking at You PLUS two tracks from the original cast recording of Flower Drum Song.
I’m not even going to start to try and list the 50 tracks on here – all I will tell you is that you will put these CDs on your player and melt. With a voice as soft as velvet, she kills every track – ranging from jazz to ballads to Broadway standards.
It’s amazing how some singers just seem to disappear from the public limelight but this should never have happened to Pat Suzuki and thank goodness Stage Door Records is bringing her back into the spotlight where she deserves to stay.
Nick Wakeham
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