How Sad, How Lovely

How Sad, How Lovely is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Connie Converse. The album, containing 17 songs recorded during the 1950s, was released by Lau Derette Recordings in March 2009. It is Converse's first album, released 35 years after her disappearance in 1974.[1]

In 2015, the album was released as an 18 track vinyl record (with the addition of "I Have Considered the Lilies") by Squirrel Thing Recordings, in partnership with Captured Tracks.[2]

Background

In January 2004, sound engineer and an early supporter of Converse, Gene Deitch appeared on WNYC radio show Spinning on Air, hosted by music historian David Garland to play reel-to-reel tape recordings he had made of Converse.[3] From this broadcast, two of the show's listeners, Dan Dzula and David Herman, being especially moved by the recording of "One by One" tracked down Deitch to discover more of Converse's music.[4] Of their findings were two sources: Deitch's collection of recordings residing at his residence in Prague, and a filing cabinet of recordings Converse had sent to her brother Philip in the late 1950s, housed in Ann Arbour, Michigan, where she resided before her disappearance.[5] Dzula and Herman started the record label Lau Derette Recordings, to further Converse's music and released How Sad, How Lovely in March 2009.[1] Also in March 2009, Garland hosted an hour-long special about Converse on Spinning on Air.[6]

Track listing
  1. Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
  2. Johnny's Brother
  3. Roving Woman
  4. Down This Road
  5. The Clover Saloon
  6. John Brady
  7. We Lived Alone
  8. Playboy of the Western World
  9. Unknown (A little louder, Love)
  10. One by One
  11. Father Neptune
  12. Man in the Sky
  13. Empty Pocket Waltz
  14. Honeybee
  15. There is a Vine
  16. How Sad, How Lovely
  17. Trouble
  18. I Have Considered the Lilies

References
  1. Sachs, Tony (April 10, 2009). "50 Years Late, Connie Converse Is Music's Next Big Thing". HuffPost Entertainment. Huffington Post.
  2. "How Sad, How Lovely". Omnian Music Group. Captured Tracks. May 14, 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  3. Garland, David (March 15, 2004). "Background: The Deitch Connection". WNYC. Spinning on Air.
  4. Anderson, L.V. (December 2, 2011). "The Connie Converse Double Album That Never Got Crowd-Funded". The Awl. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  5. Forster, Robert (2009). "Lost Women Found". The Monthly: Australian Politics, Society & Culture. Australia. The Monthly. June 2009: 60–64.
  6. Garland, David (March 15, 2009). "Connie Converse Walking in the Dark". WNYC. Spinning on Air.
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