America's Sweetheart, Vol. 2 by Shirley Temple (CD, Oct-1996, Pearl)

Album Features
UPC:	727031709725
Artist:	Shirley Temple
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1996
Record Label:	Pearl
Genre:	Classic Pop Vocals, Pop Vocal

Track Listing
1. You've Got to S-M-I-L-E (To Be H-A Double P-Y)
2. Goodnight My Love
3. That's What I Want for Christmas
4. In Our Little Wooden Shoes
5. Hymn (Holy God We Pray Thy Name)
6. Silent Night
7. Be Optimistic and Smile
8. How Can I Thank You?
9. We Should Be Together
10. If All of the World Were Paper
11. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
12. Courtroom Scene: Stars and Stripes Forever/Thank You for the Use ...: Stars and Stripes Forever / Thank You For The Use Of The Hall / Loch Lomond / Swing Me An Old Fashioned Tune / Little Miss Broadway
13. Old Straw Hat, An
14. Come and Get Your Happiness
15. Rebecca's Medley: On the Good Ship Lollipop/Animal Crackers in My Soup: On The Good Ship Lollipop / Animal Crackers In My Soup / When I'm With You / Oh, My Goodness / Goodnight My Love
16. Toy Trumpet, The
17. This Is a Happy Little Ditty
18. I Love to Walk in the Rain
19. Wot' Cher! (Knock'd 'Em in the Old Kent Road)
20. One-Two-Three...
21. Lay-De-O
22. Fifth Avenue
23. Young People
24. I Wouldn't Take a Million
25. Tra-La-La-La
26. Leo Is on the Air: "Kathleen", MGM Air Trailer

Details
Playing Time:	77 min.
Distributor:	E1 Distribution (USA)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Recorded between 1936 & 1941.Personnel: Shirley Temple (vocals).Liner Note Author: Greg Gormick.Introduction by: Jack Haley, Sr.It is tempting to imagine that what little innocence the American people thought they possessed during the 1930s could have somehow been conserved and bottled for posterity, if only Shirley Temple could have been prevented from growing up. Scientific methodology could have stunted her growth with hormones and an austere diet while "get happy" songs would have continued to pour out of Tin Pan Alley like backwater through a ruptured levee. Instead, she befriended J. Edgar Hoover, gave up tap dancing, became an adolescent, grew a bosom, had children, and eventually served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. What's left of her childhood is a fascinating if somewhat weird wealth of motion pictures and musical excerpts from their soundtracks which have been appearing and reappearing on various audio formats since the early '60s. The best Shirley Temple anthology to emerge during the CD era was America's Sweetheart, Vols. 1 & 2, hatched by Pearl Records in 1996. Like its predecessor, Vol. 2 presents the excerpts chronologically, here beginning with material dating from 1936 and ending with an MGM air trailer from Kathleen, a film released in 1941. Other flicks mined for this edition are Stowaway; Heidi; Little Miss Broadway (featuring "Be Optimistic and Smile"); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Just Around the Corner; The Little Princess; Susannah of the Mounties; The Blue Bird, and Young People. While the phrase "America's Sweetheart" was first introduced by Mary Pickford and has since been applied to Betty White, Loretta Lynn, and Courtney Love, it also serves as an appropriately sweet tag for Temple. While generations of women have struggled with the psychological blowback from prolonged exposure to this tap-happy curly-headed archetype of cuteness, there is no denying young Shirley's amazing talent and resilient versatility during the years she was shackled to the motion picture industry. In a very real sense, whatever there ever was of her innocence and ours, either actual or ersatz, has been preserved in these sweet and sometimes nutty recordings. Try them on, they won't bite. ~ arwulf arwulf