MARY MORTON
WOOING THE LORELEI
2007 Lucy fur Tunes, BMI

Do you know the Lorelei? Someone, who, like the mythical Siren of the Rhine, lures you with mesmerizing song to foolish acts and emotional upheaval. If you do, and subscribe to the philosophy that it is better to have loved intensely and shipwrecked than to have never loved at all, songwriter Mary Morton has crafted an original and often hilarious collection of songs to help you celebrate the continuing search for an ideal love. If you adore the scintillating, shimmering confluence of language, melody, and plangent harmony of some of the best songs from the 1920's and 1930's, like those of Cole Porter or George and Ira Gershwin, Morton's witty word play ingeniously mirrored by unexpected melodic turns, will be a delight for you to hear and sing.
–Eden Kainer