With a Song in My Heart (Jane Froman album)
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| Released | 1952 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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With a Song in My Heart... is a 1952 album by Jane Froman featuring songs from that year's 20th Century-Fox film With a Song in My Heart based on her life story. The album was released by Capitol Records.[1][2][3]
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According to Billboard, in 1951,[6] Jane Froman was "wisely" signed by Capitol Records "to a recording contract" "on the strength of anticipated public interest in her" that would follow release of the 20th Century-Fox musical film based on her biography.[1]
"Performed with warmth and fervor, her glorious voice was never more beautiful ... a singing symbol of her resplendent life. Another Capitol Exclusive!," said a Capitol advertisement in the magazine.[7][8]
The album spent numerous weeks at number one on Billboard's Best-Selling Pop Albums chart – on both the 33⅓-rpm and 45-rpm halves of it.[3][9]
In February 1953, Billboard noted that the album had become "one of the biggest sellers ever released" by Capitol.[10]
In a retrospective review in his 2014 book Just Remember This, Colin Bratkovich commended the song "With a Song in My Heart" as recorded by Froman for this album, noting that her "vocal approach is much the same as by Hildegarde in 1939", but added: "Beware of the rest of this soundtrack despite its contemporary 'best seller' credentials!"[11]