" data-original-title="" title="">Tracye Eileen. It was recorded in two sessions: one with a trio (and audience), the other with a sextet. She gets a good head start thanks to a splendid choice of material— eight blue-chip tunes, all from the Great American Songbook.

Eileen fares reasonably well with each of them, spreading a bluesy blanket over what are essentially straight-ahead renditions. She has excellent range, and is suitably emotive when required. The diction is fine save on the fast-paced opener, "I Love Being Here with You," wherein a number of words and phrases are less than clear. Elsewhere, no problems. Eileen does make at least one lyric misstep, on Lerner and Loewe's "Almost Like Being in Love," when she sings (twice), "all the music of love seems to be" instead of "all the music of life seems to be," as written, but that's a minor quibble.

"You Hit the Spot" follows "Being Here" and precedes half a dozen winners including "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "Almost Like Being in Love," "The Very Thought of You," "Just in Time" (including a rarely heard verse), "This Can't Be Love" and "The End of a Love Affair" (the only theme aside from the first two sung without an audience). Eileen numbers