The cover of this album shows interior of typical pub where Lita Roza supposedly performs these songs live - well, audience is obviously fake because they sound very much the same song after song, though there is nothing wrong with the music or Lita Roza's singing. She sounds like she is enjoying herself on standards by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorne and Gershwin brothers, relaxed and cheerful at the same time. Of course all of these songs are already well known by artists like Judy Garland (whose "The Man That Got Away" she covers almost note by note) so there isn't much new Roza can add here. Its a lovely traditional pop album by talented crooning songbird that perfectly reflects music trends of the day.
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Very soon the fellow Liverpudlians will take over the business and start new trends that would push singers like Lita Roza into obsoleteness. From her generation only Cleo Laine (jazz oriented) and Shirley Bassey (via movie themes) would continue with successful careers, but for every idiosyncratic Laine and Bassey there were hundreds of others who would became a nostalgia act.
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