Since I Fell for You

Since I Fell for You, released originally by the tiny Applause Records label, was Eydie Gorme's first solo LP sung in English in a decade. Working with arranger/conductor Don Costa, Gorme cut a set of pop standards that in some cases dated back quite a few years (Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do," "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"); sometimes came from her `50s/early-`60s heyday ("Since I Fell for You," "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"); and occasionally had turned up in the interim since her last collection of this sort ("Come in from the Rain," "Send in the Clowns"). The arrangements were sympathetic, and Gorme was in good voice handling mostly ballads. She even turned the lights down and got bluesy on "God Bless the Child" and "`Round Midnight." This was the sort of album no major label would touch in the early `80s, but it was a treat for Gorme's fans. Gorme and husband Steve Lawrence's GL Music label reissued Since I Fell for You in 2004, adding six bonus tracks, including a couple of good Jimmy Webb numbers, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Didn't We," plus James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" and Bread's "If."] ~ William Ruhlmann