Georgia Gibbs - Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs: The Kiss of Fire (Her 29 Finest 1942-1955)

Georgia Gibbs was first introduced as �Her Nibs, Miss Gibbs� on Jimmy Durante�s show, as she is in the heading for The Kiss Of Fire, Retrospective�s fine selection of 29 numbers from her peak years. She had six top six hits (all included), three of them million sellers: the Argentine tango-based The Kiss Of Fire of 1952, and her two R&B �white covers� of 1955, Tweedle Dee and Dance With Me, Henry. The others are If I Knew You Were Comin� I�d Have Baked A Cake (1950), While You Danced, Danced, Danced (1951) and Seven Lonely Days (1953). Her sultry, throbbing voice is well suited to romantic ballads such as He�s Funny That Way or It�s The Talk Of The Town, but she can be equally thrilling belting out a red-hot jazz number like Red Hot Mama. Overall, The Kiss Of Fire gives the most generous and balanced single-CD coverage of a fine, underrated artist.