>Julie London, star of NBC's "Emergency!" (there's yr TV content) and the finest American female voice of the last half-century, has died at the age of 74.

Well, I refuse to be cynical. "Cry Me A River" is/was a lovely record.

Don't know much of her other stuff, though.
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That smoulder-sweet voice, gone forever. Singing with a sob, she provided an anthem for broken hearts with Cry Me A River (oh, I have Julie, I have cried a river! That worthless bastard - he'll never know what he missed out on ).
Julie London also recorded versions of great classics such as Never on a Sunday, Fascination, Blue Moon, My Heart Belongs To Daddy, etc. And the sly, sensual Come On-A My House - chock full of naughty-but-nice innuendo about "come on -a my house and I'll give you peaches and cream/candy/pomegranetes" etc.
Those of us with lower registers will always pay heed to her sex-siren style.

She was also married to Dragnet's Jack Webb at a time.

Ah! Julie London!

Try not to well up with smoky emotion at her rendition of "The End Of The World"...

Sonia did a version of that.

I'm sure that's what finished Julie off.

julie london covered 'the end of the world...'? i knew that clodagh rogers had covered 'driver 8,' but this is a revelation...

j xxx

>julie london covered 'the end of the world...'? i knew that clodagh rogers had covered 'driver 8,' but this is a revelation...

Boh!

Seriously though, that first LP in particular is immaculate - Barney Kessel on guitar, Roy Leatherwood on bass, the perfect foil for that 'thimbleful' of a voice. Any of the later Liberty stereo recordings too. If anyone has that version of "My Funny Valentine" she did for "Sharky's Machine" in '81 (more than a decade after she stopped recording), let me know...

By now she will be singing in that great concert hall in the sky.