About Me
"Tonight is the nigh!: it's the night I've waited for!" So sings beautiful, opulently proportioned Tina Louise in breathy anticipation of a full evening of i ntimate romance.
Here, for the first time on records, is the warm, mood-filled voice of one of the most glamorous of all America's glamour girls. Soltly, soothingly, sensuously she sings her songs-songs that reveal in an unbroken story line the emotional surgings of a gorgeous girl as she lirst anticipates and then enjoys to the utmost the fulfillment of an evening with-well, it could be you!
The sequence of the songs tells the story of her "tonight." One melody follows another in chronological order. And to sustain the mood, mellow musical bridges tie together the tunes and at the same time the excitement of an evening with Tina. To be sure, this is a unique approach to recording-this complete story-line with no interruptions-but then, Tina is a most unique girl, and who would want to be interrupted on a date with her, anyway?
Recently starred in the role of Appassionata von Climax in the Broadway produclion of "Li'l Abner," New York-born Tina began her professional career as a singer. "1 took my first job on a dare. My best girl friend at college needed money and we heard they were auditioning singers at a club. I went with her. But she got cold feet, so I decided I'd try. I remember I sang 'I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No' and 'I'm In Love Again'. I got the job and I still have the twenty-dollar bill, framed, they paid me for working the weekend."
However, after a few months Tina decided that she wasn't getting what she wanted at the University of Miami. She wanted to specialize and so she enrolled in New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and began studying singing privately. Eventually she gained an engagement in the Catskills. Grinningly she recalls : "I trudged into the mountains in my high school graduation dress. But they seemed to like me. It was really a big thrill lor me-sensingthat I was being appreciated."
Gradually she shifted to more dramatic roles.She played the lead in TV's "Studio One" producction of "Johnny August" opposite Cameron Mitchell and was featured in sexual minor parts of Broadway belore "Li'l Abner." It was during the making of this, her first record, that she auditioned lor and won herflirst movie role-and a starring one at that-a lead in the United Artists' production of "God's Little Acre," based on the famous Erskine Caldwell novel. Her Hollywood audition took place between the second and the third of the trio of dates on which this record was made, dates, by the way, which to Tina were great thrills. "The beauty and the exciteement and the sound of those arrangements and the way the musicians played them~it was too much! I think Jim Timmens is a genius!"
Jim Timmens is also a thorough musician who has written lor and played in the Sauter-Finegan orchestra, and whose good taste and bright imagiination stamp him as an arranger delinitely approaching Tina's enthusiastic description. Here his velvety voicings are treated with delicate care and much musical know-how by Buddy Weed and his sympathetic sidemen. Buddy, star of his own ABC radio show and leatured with Paul Whiteman's orchestra, displays his delightful pianist through backgrounds that also spot a series al sensuous solos by such noted ¡azz greats as trombonist Tyree Glenn and alto saxist Hiltan Jefferson, bath al Duke Ellingtan lame, and the world-renowned master al the tenor sax, Coleman Hawkins.
Here, then is music far a maad-lilling evening full al smauldering excitement, an evening that starts with tingling anticipation and eventually reveals in the events and the emotions af an exciting date with an equally exciting woman. Tonight is the night! It's time for Tina'!
