TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Harry Connick, Jr.

TITLE: Only You

LABEL: Columbia / Sony Music

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 50min total- 72.6mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-02-03
RIP DATE: 2004-01-25

02 The Very Thought Of You        3:40
03 Save The Last Dance For Me     4:50
04 My Blue Heaven                 3:17
05 You Don't Know Me              4:03
06 All These Things               4:41
07 For Once In My Life            3:57

10 Other Hours                    4:01
11 I Only Have Eyes For You       4:13
12 Good Night My Love (Pleasant   4:34

With very few exceptions, the career of
Harry Connick, Jr. can be divided in
half  his first two albums encompassed
straightahead New Orleans jazz and
stride piano while his later career
(which paralleled his rising celebrity
status) alternated between more
contemporary New Orleans music and pop
vocals with a debt to Frank Sinatra. Born
in New Orleans on September 11, 1967,
Connick grew up the son of two lawyers
who owned a record store. After
beginning on keyboards at the age of
three, he first performed publicly at
six, and recorded with a local jazz
band at ten. Connick attended the New
Orleans Center for the Creative Arts
and studied with Ellis Marsalis and
James Booker. A move to New York to study
at Hunter College and the Manhattan
School of Music gave him the
opportunity to look up a Columbia
Records executive who had asked to see
him, and Connick's self-titled album
debut  a set of mostly unaccompanied
standards  appeared in 1987. Jazz
critics praised Connick's maturity and
engaging style as well as his extended
stays at New York hotspots during the
year. His second album, named for his
age in 1988, was the first to feature

Already well-known within jazz circles,
Harry Connick, Jr. entered the American
consciousness with the soundtrack to
1989's popular film When Harry Met
Sally. Director Rob Reiner had asked
Connick to compose a soundtrack, and he
recorded several warm standards ("It Had
to Be You," "Let's Call the Whole Thing
Off," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore")
with a big-band backing. A world tour
followed, and When Harry Met Sally
eventually reached double-platinum
status. With Connick a major celebrity,
he diverged into an acting career,
playing a tail gunner in 1990's Memphis
Belle. That same year, he released two
albums simultaneously: one, We Are in
Love, was another vocal outing with
similar standards as had appeared on
When Harry Met Sally, while Lofty's
Roach Souffle was all-instrumental. (Of
course, the vocal album performed much
better in the pop charts, hitting
double-platinum, while the
instrumentals worked better with jazz
audiences.) Connick toured again, this
time with a big band, and recorded the
group on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light.
Though his celebrity decreased slightly
during the mid-'90s, Connick's albums
continued to reach platinum status,
including 1992's 25, a 1993 Christmas
album, and 1994's She. Connick
continued his acting work with a
starring role in 1995's Copycat (where
he played a serial killer) and married
actress Jill Goodacre. In 1996, he had a
brief role in the year's biggest
blockbuster, Independence Day, but his
album Star Turtle failed to connect with
pop audiences. Come by Me, a return to big
band sounds, followed in 1999.