"Let's Get Away From It All"

Original released on LP Mercury MG 20387 (mono)

(US, 1958)

Patti Page takes a musical tour of the world on "Let's Get Away From It All", a thematic album on which "the Singing Rage" travels via song to Mexico, France, Italy, Ireland, and several spots in the United States. The title song should have led the track list but doesn't - the songs appear in no particular order, with Page meandering aimlessly from Mississippi to Mexico to New Orleans to Paris. The bright big-band orchestration sweeps her along from "Autumn in Rome" to "Route 66" to "April in Paris" before Page finally declares that "The Whole World Is Singing My Song." Seasons pass and huge tracts of geography are traversed, but oddly, the scenery never seems to change. The musical selections are mostly pop and jazz standards all presented in the same swinging fashion, with Page crooning or belting it out as the moment requires. "Let's Get Away From It All" has appeared in Stereo for the first time in 1955 with 10 songs. The album presented here is the mono version from 1958 with two more songs added: "April in Paris" and "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra (That's an Irish Lullaby)".