Definitive American Songbook Vol.2 (2003)

Product Summary Label: Capitol Records UPC: 00724359282022 Release Date: 9/2/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60611043 Item#: MPX9LM Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Night And Day - Frank Sinatra ~ Various Artists 2. Stardust - Nat "King" Cole ~ Various Artists 3. Satin Doll - Nancy Wilson ~ Various Artists 4. Misty - Johnny Mathis ~ Various Artists 5. It Had To Be You - Kay Starr ~ Various Artists 6. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland ~ Various Artists 7. Tenderly - Rosemary Clooney ~ Various Artists 8. On The Street Where You Live - Dean Martin ~ Various Artists 9. Someone To Watch Over Me - Linda Ronstadt ~ Various Artists 10. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 11. My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker ~ Various Artists 12. These Foolish Things - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 13. Stormy Weather - Lena Horne ~ Various Artists 14. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Low Rawls ~ Various Artists 15. Where Or When - Dick Haymes ~ Various Artists 16. That Old Black Magic - Louis Prima/Keely Smith (live) ~ Various Artists 17. It's Only A Paper Moon - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists 18. Just One Of Those Things - Peggy Lee/Gordon Jenkins ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Liner Note Author: Alan Warner. Photographer: Ted Williams. Arrangers: Don Costa; Gerald Wiggins; Glenn Osser; Gordon Jenkins; Nelson Riddle. The Best of the Definitive American Songbook, Vol. 2: I-Z sets out to compile great performances of songs written in the 1920s through the 1950s by American songwriters both legendary (like Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, George and Ira Gershwin, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, and Harold Arlen) and obscure (like Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, and Holt Marvell). The "I-Z" refers to the titles of the songs; the disc travels from "It Had to Be You" (written by Gus Kahn and Isham Jones and sung by Kay Starr) to "Where or When" (written by Rodgers & Hart and sung by Dick Haymes). In between are performances by such titans as Dean Martin (Lerner & Loewe's "On the Street Where You Live"), Peggy Lee (Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things"), and Ella Fitzgerald (Billy Rose, E.Y. Harburg, and Harold Arlen's "It's Only a Paper Moon"). There are also some definitive performances, like Chet Baker's breathtaking take on Rodgers & Hart's "My Funny Valentine," Louis Prima and Keely Smith's knockout version of Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen's "That Old Black Magic," and Lena Horne's version of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Stormy Weather." The collection is a top-notch blend of wonderful songs and sterling vocal talent; the only missteps are the inclusion of two songs recorded in the 1980s: Rosemary Clooney's bland-sounding take on Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross' "Tenderly" from 1980 and Linda Ronstadt's pallid version of the Gershwins' "Someone to Watch Over Me." There are eight more volumes of the series set to be released; if they are all as good as the first two you should start clearing shelf space now. ~ Tim Sendra Producer: Tom Morgan, Jr.; David Axelrod; Carl Jefferson; Richard Block; Henry Glover; Lee Gillette; Milt Gabler; Mitch Miller; Norman Newell; Peter Asher; Voyle Gilmore   Technical Info Release Date : 09/02/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 92820 Label : Capitol/EMI Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00724359282022    Product Image