| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/verve | | UPC: 00731455778823 | | Release Date: 10/6/1998 | | Buy.com Sku: 60349782 | | Item#: MJVCG6 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Summertime - Morcheeba/Hubert Laws ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. It Ain't Necessarily So - Finley Quaye ~ Various Artists | | | 3. But Not For Me - Natalie Merchant ~ Various Artists | | | 4. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Smoke City ~ Various Artists | | | 5. I Got Plenty O' Nuthin' - Spearhead/Ernest Ranglin ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Summertime - Bobby Womack/The Roots ~ Various Artists | | | 7. I Was Doing All Right - Davina ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Embraceable You - Duncan Sheik ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off - Clark Terry ~ Various Artists | | | 10. I've Got A Crush On You - Luscious Jackson ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin - Money Mark ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Majestic 12 ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Man I Love, The - Sarah Cracknell/Kid Loco ~ Various Artists | | | 14. 'S Wonderful / Rhapsody In Blue - Skylab ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Someone To Watch Over Me - Sinead O'Connor ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Baaba Maal ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Foggy Day, A (In London Town) - David Bowie/Angelo Badalamenti ~ Various Artists | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Producers include: Morcheeba, Pete Norris, Finley Quaye, Natalie Merchant, Smake City. | | Compilation producers: John Carlin, Chris Dell'Olio, Beco Dranoff, Brian Hanna, Paul Heck. | | Engineers include: Pete Norris, Pete Craigie, George Cowan. | | Includes liner notes by John Carlin. | | 1990's RED HOT BLUE, the first release in a justly celebrated series of ongoing AIDS benefit projects, featured provocative postmodern interpretations of Cole Porter songs. It makes sense then that the series returns to its roots, so to speak, with this contemporary George Gershwin tribute, maybe the best of the lot and certainly apropos during the composer's centennial. | | Present are a motley crew of artists, some well-known (Natalie Merchant, Sinead O'Connor, David Bowie), some not so (Davina, Smoke City, Spearhead). What they all share is a musically imaginative approach to these overworked warhorses, too long the province of bad cabaret singers, crossover classical artists and other offenders to numerous to mention. Example 1: Finley Quaye's acerbic take on "It Ain't Necessarily So," in which he faithfully restores the original philosophical skepticism of Sportin Life's soliloquy from PORGY AND BESS. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/06/1998 | | Original Release Date : 1998 | | Catalog ID : 557 788 | | Label : Antilles | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00731455778823 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (10/29/98, p.76)
- "...sets a varied bunch of musicians loose on the Gershwin songbook. Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell brings down the house here..." |
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