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Key Information
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| Artist: |
George Gershwin |
| Record Label: |
Legacy Recordings |
| Contributing Artist: |
Rosemary Clooney |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Stage Composers |
| Release Date: |
January 14, 2003 |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Prelude No. 2 For Piano
2. I Got Rhythm (with Ethel Waters)
3. Oh Lady, Be Good (with Buck & Bubbles)
4. Summertime (with Billie Holiday)
5. Nice Work If You Can Get It (with Maxine Sullivan & Her Orchestra)
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me (with Fred Astaire)
7. Swanee (with Al Jolson)
8. Liza (with Benny Goodman)
9. Someone to Watch Over Me (with Frank Sinatra)
10. 'S Wonderful (with Dinah Shore/Buddy Clark)
11. Do It Again (with Jane Russell)
12. Soon (with Dorothy Kirsten)
13. Fascinatin' Rhythm / Someone To Watch Over Me (with Morton Gould, His Piano & Orchestra)
14. Man I Love, The (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
15. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (with Fred Astaire)
16. Love Is Here to Stay (with Gene Kelly)
17. How Long Has This Been Going On? (with Felicia Sanders)
18. Blues (with Harry James & His Orchestra)
19. But Not For Me (with Doris Day)
20. Foggy Day, A (with Rosemary Clooney)
21. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise (with Georges Guetary)
22. Third Movement (Allegro Agitato, with Oscar Levant) |
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Song List: Disc 2
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1. Of Thee I Sing Overture (with Buffalo Philharmonic)
2. They All Laughed (with Tony Bennett)
3. Of Thee I Sing (with The Hi-Lo's)
4. Promenade (Walking the Dog) (with The Los Angeles Philharmonic)
5. I've Got a Crush on You (with Ella Fitzgerald)
6. Somebody Loves Me (with Alberta Hunter)
7. Love Walked In / Embraceable You (with Maureen McGovern)
8. Mine (with Dick Hyman)
9. Isn't It a Pity (with Mel Torm?)
10. Introduction and Jazzbo Brown (with Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra)
11. It Ain't Necessarily So (with Aretha Franklin)
12. Bess, You Is My Woman Now (with Robert McFerrin/Adele Addison)
13. I Loves You, Porgy (with Miles Davis)
14. My Man's Gone Now (with Sarah Vaughan)
15. There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (with Cab Calloway)
16. Who Cares? (with Tony Bennett)
17. Rhapsody in Blue
18. Strike up the Band (with Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra)
19. Home Blues (with Michael Feinstein) |
| More Information |
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Personnel includes: George Gershwin (piano); Michael Feinstein (vocals, piano); Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Al Jolson (vocals); Dick McDonough (guitar); Artie Shaw (clarinet); Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Miles Davis, Bunny Berigan (trumpet); Joe Bushkin (piano); Jo Jones (drums). Compilation producers: Michael Feinstein, Didier C. Deutsch. Includes liner notes by Tim Page and Diane Warren. This two-disc set features a wide variety of interpretations of one of the 20th century's best-known composers, George Gershwin, from Whispering Jack Smith's genteel rendering of "Funny Face" to a youthful Ella Fitzgerald performing "I Was Doing All Right," with the added bonus of a couple of performances from Gershwin himself, performing "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." |
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