I am a great fan of Leslie F. Hutchinson, and have many LPs, audio tapes and CDs of his recordings. Like most singers his best work was done before the age of forty, when vibrato coarsens and the pleasure fades for me. Hutch made many recordings on 78 shellac records, and occasionally a new compilation of digitally remastered tracks is released.
Every new issue is a mixture of tracks released earlier plus a few new tracks. Bygone Days recent issue `A Portrait of Hutch' is a gem, containing nine tracks new to me (Hands Across the Table, Romany, Music. Maestro Please, I guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest, My Romance, Tell your Troubles to the Breeze, Nightingale, Just Around the Corner, and Symphony). On all these tracks Hutch is in good voice (all were recorded in the 1930s and 1940s) and the sound quality is good. It also contains two new medleys and eleven tracks I already have.
Terry Paget October 2009