Original Great American Songbook (2003) (Remastered/Billie Holiday/)

Product Summary Label: Universal Music Group UPC: 00602498608500 Release Date: 10/7/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60615486 Item#: MGFHH4 Buy.com Sales Rank: 25654 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. You Go To My Head - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists 3. Way You Look Tonight, The - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists 4. It Had To Be You - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 5. That Old Feeling - Billy Eckstine ~ Various Artists 6. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) - Nat "King" Cole ~ Various Artists 7. Very Thought Of You, The - Johnny Hartman ~ Various Artists 8. Moonglow - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 9. I'll Be Seeing You - Carmen McRae ~ Various Artists 10. Every Time We Say Goodbye - Jeri Southern ~ Various Artists 11. Nearness Of You - Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists 12. For All We Know - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists 13. We'll Be Together Again - Anita O'Day ~ Various Artists 14. That's All - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists 15. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 16. Misty - Johnny Mathis ~ Various Artists 17. Georgia On My Mind - Shirley Horn ~ Various Artists 18. Stardust - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists (P) 2003 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2003 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation producers: Ken Druker, Jeff Moskow. The idea behind The Original Great American Songbook is a simple one: to collect great American singers doing the greatest songs from some of America's greatest pop and jazz composers, and the end result is a disc that should go up into space in a time capsule. Highlights are constant, but include Billie Holiday's version of Dizzy Gillespie's "You Go to My Head," Jeri Southern doing Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," and Shirley Horn's 1993 take on Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind." Dinah Washington does a pair of Cole Porter standards, "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Stardust," while Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong duet on two songs, the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and Carmichael's "The Nearness of You." That they don't write 'em like this anymore is obvious, since all of these gems were written in an age when melody determined rhythm; they don't sing 'em like this anymore, either, since melismatic ornamentation had yet to become its own elaborate art form. ~ Steve Leggett   Technical Info Release Date : 10/07/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 000118202 Label : UTV Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602498608500    Product Image