The biggest pre-Beatles star from Liverpool, Lita Roza was a Rosemary Clooney sound alike who just like her American counterpart recorded classy standards for the studio albums and novelties for chart-topping hit singles.
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Though she worked with some of the best jazz musicians of her time, her studio albums are more focused on "American songbook" ballads that she sings dreamily and sensuously - there is absolutely nothing wrong with songs like "Fools Rush In" or "They Say It's Wonderful" but one ballad after the other makes this for a catatonic listening experience. Perhaps if they throw in a swing number or two, the whole album could have been different but obviously that was not the producer's idea. Her version of old Bing Crosby gem "Just One More Chance" is actually very pretty but as a whole this ballad album is perhaps too much of the same.
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