Barbara Cook

Coinciding with the release this week of Barbara Cook's autobiography, Stage Door Records has the first CD reissue of the legendary singer's first, and most unusual, solo album.  Released on the small Urania label in November 1958, Songs Of Perfect Propriety features Cook performing a song cycle of Dorothy Parker poems and verses set to music by opera and chamber music composer Seymour Barab.  The young Cook brought her lustrous voice to these incisive art songs which can now be heard anew.  Stage Door's reissue, housed in a mini-LP paper sleeve, is limited to 500 copies.