Name: When Boy Meets Girl: Wish Upon a Star
Brand: Collectables
SKU: 415160
Price: 31.82 USD
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When Boy Meets Girl

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Album: When Boy Meets Girl: Wish Upon a Star
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Boy Next Door, The
2)	Would You Like to Take a Walk
3)	All I Do Is Dream of You
4)	Let's Fall in Love
5)	You Better Go Now
6)	Goodnight, My Love
7)	I Wanna Be Loved
8)	Temptation
9)	Conflict
10)	It's Easy to Remember
11)	Just One More Chance
12)	Love Is Here to Stay
13)	Part I: When I Was Ten (Beginning)
14)	When You Wish Upon a Star
15)	When I Was Ten (Conclusion)
16)	Part II: A Girl With a Band
17)	Let There Be Love
18)	Part III: New York
19)	Little Girl Blue
20)	Hooray For Hollywood
21)	Part IV: Screen Test / Long Ago (And Far Away)
22)	Part V: Nobody Asked Me to Sing
23)	Ev'ry Time
24)	Part VI: Discovery / Hunts Tomato Sauce Jingle
25)	When You Wish Upon a Star (Reprise)

Album: When Boy Meets Girl: Wish Upon a Star
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Boy Next Door, The
2)	Would You Like to Take a Walk
3)	All I Do Is Dream of You
4)	Let's Fall in Love
5)	You Better Go Now
6)	Goodnight, My Love
7)	I Wanna Be Loved
8)	Temptation
9)	Conflict
10)	It's Easy to Remember
11)	Just One More Chance
12)	Love Is Here to Stay
13)	Part I: When I Was Ten (Beginning)
14)	When You Wish Upon a Star
15)	When I Was Ten (Conclusion)
16)	Part II: A Girl With a Band
17)	Let There Be Love
18)	Part III: New York
19)	Little Girl Blue
20)	Hooray For Hollywood
21)	Part IV: Screen Test / Long Ago (And Far Away)
22)	Part V: Nobody Asked Me to Sing
23)	Ev'ry Time
24)	Part VI: Discovery / Hunts Tomato Sauce Jingle
25)	When You Wish Upon a Star (Reprise)

Performer Notes

2 LPs on 1 CD: GIRL MEETS BOY (1955)/WISH UPON A STAR (1956).
Personnel includes: Peggy King, Jerry Vale, Felicia Sanders (vocals);
Percy Faith (conductor).
Originally released on Columbia.
The Collectables reissue of two mid-'50s LPs by Peggy King reveals a singer who possessed a cute soprano voice with the character and subtle strength of Debbie Reynolds. The first of two concept LPs, 1955's Girl Meets Boy pairs King with Jerry Vale for a musical dissection of a love affair, beginning with King's sweetly innocent "The Boy Next Door" and continuing through "Would You Like to Take a Walk?" and "Let's Fall in Love." Felicia Sanders briefly catches the eyes of Vale with "I Wanna Be Loved" and "Temptation," but King of course wins the boy back and they celebrate with the closer, "Love Is Here to Stay." In similar company to Mel Torm‚'s Prelude to a Kiss and several other story-in-song LPs of the time, Girl Meets Boy leans less on jazz (or even jazz interpretation) than the musical scores that were lighting up the charts during the mid-'50s. Still, King carries the LP well, and Percy Faith's orchestration is appropriately grand, sweeping along at the pace of a promenade. The second record, 1956's Wish Upon a Star, finds King on the long road to fame, encompassing "When I Was Ten," "When You Wish Upon a Star," and "Hooray for Hollywood." Just before the title song is reprised at the end, King's character is discovered by an A&R executive while she sings a radio jingle for Hunt's Tomato Sauce, in the exact circumstances King is said to have been discovered by Mitch Miller. Between the theme of the LP and King's voice, listeners can barely stop thinking about Reynolds' role in the 1952 film smash Singin' in the Rain. ~ John Bush