Bliss Tavern Music

The most exciting aspect of Betty Johnson’s recent return to professional singing has to be her live performances.  Her shows mix fun and fancy with love and luxury.  Betty draws from her pop smashes of the 1950s – “I Dreamed” and “Little White Lies” – and summons the true beauty of her voice with standards such as Bart Howard’s “My Love is a Wanderer” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “I Have Dreamed.”  After seeing or hearing a Betty Johnson show one feels dappled with beauty and warmth.

And there’s more.  On occasion – and in this live recording entitled Soft Lights and Sweet Music – Betty invites daughter Lydia to share the stage.  Lydia – who can hold her own in any nightclub – re-defines the concert, caressing lovely standards such as “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and “You Are There.”