Varèse Sarabande VSD-5944

Original Release Date: October 20, 1998

Produced by Bruce Kimmel

Engineer: Vincent Cirilli

Arranged, Orchestrated and Conducted by Ron Abel

Additional Arrangements and Orchestrations by Rick Knutsen

SONG LISTINGS

1. Our Day Will Come
2. This Girl's in Love
3. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
4. Alone Together
5. I Can Let Go Now
6. Teach Me Tonight
7. Slow Dancing
8. Nice and Easy
9. Nearness of You
10. Masquerade Is Over
11. I'll Be Around
12. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
13. You're My Thrill
14. My One and Only Love
15. That's All 

Bruce Kimmel had this to say about working with Linda Purl:

Linda is amazing – just the easiest person to work with and she loves direction and she loves the studio and we had a ball.

THE LATE ROSEMARY CLOONEY SAID THIS ABOUT LINDA PURL

"Linda Purl is a wonderful singer and brilliant actress...the combination is perfect. I'm a fan" Rosemary Clooney

CABARET DIRECTOR DAVID GALLIGAN HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT LINDA PURL

The call came from out of the blue. “Can we meet?” She wanted to talk about a nightclub act. “I didn’t know you sang,” I replied.

Like most people, I knew Linda Purl as an actress – her television series, like “Happy Days” and “Matlock”, as well as making a frequent foray onto the stage. But sing? It was apparent, right from the start, that Linda Purl, the actress, knew her way around a lyric. I had expected that, but I was not prepared for the low, throaty timbre that emerged. Could she sing? You bet.

Noted critic Rex Reed described her thusly in his “New York Observer” review: “An act that literally takes your breath away ... she has an impressive range, perfect intonation, and awesome phrasing. In a tired landscape of cabaret yawns, she is one solid hour of seamless enchantment. Serendipitously discovering this kind of beauty and talent in a smoky room in Greenwich Village is like seeing a unicorn in a subway.”

I have listened to “Alone Together” any number of times, and as many-faceted as I know the woman to be, so is the voice. Jazzy and bluesy, as the situation needs, or throbbing with a heated sensuality that would make strong men go weak in the knees. She is playful, determined, tender, regretful, cheerful – so many moods for so many occasions.

In the old days, I would have suggested you sit back, light a cigarette, pour yourself a shot of brandy and listen. And while I am not suggesting Linda Purl is hazardous to your health – she sure is addictive. David Galligan

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