My Heart Sings may have easily been entitled The Take Five Sessions, Volume II.  It is Bliss Tavern Music’s second exploration of Betty Johnson’s classic sound of the late 1950s and early 1960s.  She puts the best of her abilities behind the best of American popular song.  Rodgers and Hart’s “My Heart Stood Still,” Lerner and Loewe’s “I’ve Grown Accustomed to His Face,” and Cole Porter’s “So in Love” swell with new spirit in Betty’s care.

Betty always loved the standards, and when she had the opportunity to perform them with the Metropolitan Jazz Quartet way back when, she felt heaven-blessed.  “Throughout my early career, recording companies were choosing what songs I would sing,” Johnson has said.  “These are songs I wish I could have sung [more of] all those years ago.”

Fortunately, Betty did have the opportunity to interpret these standards forty years ago.  The performances melt your heart, your resistance.

Track listings:

1. Lover 2. I only have eyes for you 3. Put you arms around me, honey 4. I wanna be loved 5. Taking a chance on love 6. Back in my own backyard 7. So in love 8. It's a grand night for singing 9. Dear hearts & gentle people 10. CC's jazz riff 11. Like ships 12. Mountain greenery 13. Old Devil Moon 14. I've grown accustomed to his face

15. That's all 16. Softly as in a morning sunrise 17. I love you 18. I remember you 19. If i were a bell 20. Gone with the wind 21. My hear stood still 22. Jazz riff 2 23. What a difference a day makes 24. Get me to the church on time 25. Love walked in 26. Wait 'till you see him 27. Thanks to you I'm a brand new woman 28. When you wish upon a star