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| The Great American Songbook - The Classic Artists - The Original Performances |
VÁLOGATÁS
Ben Selvin, Ben Selvin and His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Glen Gray, Glenn Miller, Jeanette MacDonald, Johnny Green, Johnny Green & his Orchestra, Lena Horne, Leo Reisman, Leo Reisman and his Orchestra, Louis Jordan, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Marius B. Winter's Hotel Cecil Dance Band, Mary Martin, Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole Trio, Peggy Mann, The Casa Loma Orchestra, The Dorsey Brothers, The Mellowmen, Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra |
első megjelenés éve: 2008
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| 1. | (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole Trio |
| 2. | Baby, It's Cold Outside
Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Louis Jordan |
| 3. | Where Or When
Lena Horne |
| 4. | Blue Skies
Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey |
| 5. | Bewitched
Doris Day with The Mellowmen |
| 6. | Blue Moon
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra |
| 7. | The Way You Look Tonight
Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & his Orchestra, Johnny Green |
| 8. | Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
Bing Crosby with Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, The Dorsey Brothers |
| 9. | I'm In The Mood For Love
Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole Trio |
| 10. | These Foolish Things
Billie Holiday |
| 11. | Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Benny Goodman feat. Peggy Mann |
| 12. | Stardust
Glenn Miller |
| 13. | My Funny Valentine
Mary Martin |
| 14. | Embraceable You
Frank Sinatra |
| 15. | Cheek To Cheek
Fred Astaire |
| 16. | 'S Wonderful
Marius B. Winter's Hotel Cecil Dance Band |
| 17. | Manhattan
Ben Selvin and His Orchestra, Ben Selvin |
| 18. | A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
Glenn Miller |
| 19. | Night And Day
Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman and his Orchestra, Leo Reisman |
| 20. | Isn't It Romantic?
Jeanette MacDonald |
| 21. | I Can't Get Started
Billie Holiday |
| 22. | Someone To Watch Over Me
Frank Sinatra |
Jazz
The songs on this album will never be forgotten. As Rod Stewart can confirm, they have inspired singers of all styles and through all decades. Here is the source of that inspiration: the classic artists and their original performances.
When successive generations of performers repeatedly return for inspiration to the songs written in America - predominantly in the years between the two world wars - it is proof of an especially enduring quality and whatever else happens along, this pattern continues right through eight decades and into the 21st Century. The elite songwriters from that era are all represented on this collection; from Rodgers & Hart to Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael to Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to the Gershwins and Frank Loesser.
The chalk-and-cheese pairing of Rodgers & Hart provide six lasting standards illuminated by Hart's evocative lyrics, while Jerome Kern followed his 1927 masterpiece Showboat with a string of compelling ballads. Hoagy Carmichael distilled touching laments for a gentler age through immortals like Georgia On My Mind, Rockin' Chair and of course Stardust, whereas Irving Berlin adopted a much brasher style, having fashioned stirring anthems like Alexander's Ragtime Band as long ago as 1914, years before very American songs like Blue Skies and Cheek To Cheek anticipated White Christmas.
Porter and Gershwin competed for critical acclaim through the former's masterful 1934 score for Anything Goes, along with a succession of hits marked by unforgettable lyrics, while Gershwin produced the symphonic innovation of 1925's Rhapsody In Blue and the folk opera Porgy And Bess ten years later. Frank Loesser adapted Damon Runyon for Guys And Dolls post-war, and also invented the novelty hit Baby, It's Cold Outside.
New York remained the hub of this frenetic creative activity in the 20s, although Hollywood's lucrative growth soon lured some great writers to the movie industry, often with unsatisfactory results. English author P.G. Wodehouse worked with Porter and Gershwin and spoke for many with his experience of crass producers: "the hired assassins eliminate the story and substitute it for one more suitable for retarded adults and children with water on the brain. Somebody's got to do it but this is the last time they'll get me."
The very best of the most gifted writers could never be entirely dimmed, however, and many more three-minute wonders were still created in song. In the 1960s, producer Phil Spector coined the phrase "little symphonies for the kids" to elucidate his Wall Of Sound recordings; the 22 compositions represented on this album surely equal, at the very least, that concise description.
TRACK-BY-TRACK …
1. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Nat King Cole Trio
(Best/Watson) Peter Maurice
This gentle ballad proved a perfect vehicle for the smooth side of Nat King Cole's mid-40s Trio recordings before solo stardom beckoned purely as a singer. William Best wrote it aged just 14 but had to wait over fifty years (until 2000) for his estate to reclaim its rights.
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five
(Loesser) MPL Communications
Frank Loesser's charming novelty number won the Academy Award in 1949, the year of the recording by this reunited pairing. Ella had had an affair with the Jump Jive extrovert Jordan when both were members of Chick Webb's Orchestra and where his charismatic showmanship so upstaged her singing that Webb fired him after two years together in 1938.
3. Where Or When - Lena Horne
(Rodgers & Hart) Warner/Chappell North America
Lena Horne's distinguished career saw her graduate from her debut as dancer/singer at Harlem's Cotton Club at the age of 17, through many classic small group recordings to brave civil rights activism. In the movies, she appeared in Stormy Weather and Cabin In The Sky, and sang this sultry Rodgers & Hart composition in 1948's Words And Music.
4. Blue Skies - Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
(Irving Berlin) Francis Day & Hunter Ltd.
Jerome Kern succinctly said of Irving Berlin that "he has no place in American music … he is American music." Born in 1888, the composer of White Christmas lived to be 101 and Blue Skies was a typically breezy Tin Pan Alley song. Tommy Dorsey first thought Sinatra "just a skinny kid from Hoboken," but this performance strongly demonstrated the singer's irresistible flair for optimistic material.
5. Bewitched - Doris Day with the Mellowmen
(Rodgers & Hart) Warner Chappell
"Marilyn Monroe? Elizabeth Taylor? Kim Novak? They'd all be trouble. I'd pick Doris Day. She's the girl every guy should marry." Day's biographer A.E.Hotchner summarized her wholesome personality there, but she also possessed an underrated vocal talent which shines through clearly on this wistful Rodgers & Hart song.
6. Blue Moon - Glen Gray & his Casa Loma Orchestra
(Rodgers & Hart) EMI United Partnership
Blue Moon was one of the most frequently recorded of all popular songs, eclectically attracting covers by Rosemary Clooney, doo-wop group the Marcels and revivalists Sha Na Na. It was a surprising inclusion on Bob Dylan's 1970 Self Portrait album and its infectious melody was also captured by the swing band led by Glen Gray which originated in Toronto's Casa Loma Hotel.
7. The Way You Look Tonight - Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
(Kern/Fields) Universal/Chappell
1936's The Way You Look Tonight won that year's Academy Award ahead of stiff competition from Porter's I've Got You Under My Skin and Burke's Pennies From Heaven. Jerome Kern's dreamy collaboration with Dorothy Fields proved a highlight of Swingtime, the movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
8. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Bing Crosby with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
(Cole Porter) Warner Chappell
Cole Porter lived in France for most of the 1920s and his 1927 show Paris established him as an exceptional writer. Its best song was Let's Do It, whose typically clever wordplay necessitated the suffix (Let's Fall In Love) to allay its suggestiveness; Crosby's natural charm gave it a requisite innocence.
9. I'm In The Mood For Love - Nat King Cole & his Trio
(McHugh/Fields) EMI United Partnership
The productive partnership of Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields wrote this in 1935, twenty years before its seductive atmosphere drew Julie London, among many others, to give it her characteristic torch treatment. Here it's the velvet voice of Nat King Cole which breathes the air of seduction.
10. These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday
(Marvel/Strachey/Link) Boosey & Hawkes
The worldly sophistication of this mid 30s song provoked a more knowing later version – in lounge lizard style by Bryan Ferry – but is much better appreciated in the hands of a unique performer like Lady Day with the select musical backing which accompanied her most resonant work.
11. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Benny Goodman feat. Peggy Mann
(Cole Porter) Warner/Chappell North America
One of Porter's most poignant love songs, this 1944 composition was beautifully performed by Jeri Southern just before Ella Fitzgerald became so strongly associated with it. This Benny Goodman quintet recording appeared in the Ziegfeld Theater show Seven Lively Arts and featured vocalist Peggy Mann.
12. Stardust - Glenn Miller
(Carmichael, Parish, arr.Miller) Lawrence Wright
The Mark Twain of American songwriting, Hoagy Carmichael's laconic work was most distinguished on his multi-million selling hit Stardust; after Silent Night, the second most recorded song of the 20th Century. Glenn Miller's immaculate Orchestra gave it one of its finest instrumental arrangements.
13. My Funny Valentine - Mary Martin
(Rodgers & Hart) Warner/Chappell North America
Mary Martin was one of the great ladies of the Broadway theatre, best known for preceding Marilyn Monroe with her playful 1938 treatment of My Heart Belongs To Daddy. Here, she tackles the more sombre mood of Rodgers & Hart's elegiac ballad from the musical Babes In Arms.
14. Embraceable You - Frank Sinatra
(George & Ira Gershwin) Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
Pre-Hollywood and pre-Sinatra, dancer Ginger Rogers appeared in the Gershwins' 1930 show Girl Crazy, in which she introduced one of their most affecting songs. The achievements of Rhapsody In Blue and Porgy And Bess made George's death of a brain tumour at 38 even more tragic.
15. Cheek To Cheek - Fred Astaire
(Irving Berlin) Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
Rogers's most illustrious partner was, of course, the great Fred Astaire whose prowess as a hoofer unfairly overshadowed his gifts as a singer. Irving Berlin himself rated him his favourite interpreter, and the magical Cheek To Cheek became an enduring standard after its appearance in the 1935 musical Top Hat.
16. S' Wonderful - Marius.B.Winter's Hotel Cecil Dance Band
(George & Ira Gershwin) Warner/Chappell North America
Astaire also performed the Gershwins' engaging S'Wonderful in both the American and British productions of the 1927 production of Funny Face, together with sister Adele and then with Audrey Hepburn. Marius B. Winter's 1920s Hotel Cecil outfit gave the tune a period British Dance Band flavour.
17. Manhattan - Ben Selvin & his Orchestra
(Rodgers & Hart) Francis Day & Hunter Ltd.
An evocative homage to the Big Apple memorably reprised by Ella Fitzgerald in the 50s, the intricately written Manhattan originally appeared in Rodgers & Hart's 1925 revue Garrick Gaities, and it became the duo's first standard. Ben Selvin's orchestral account suites the complex arrangement and was a popular success.
18. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Glenn Miller
(Mashwitz, Strachey, Sherman, arr. Finegan)
The peerless Glenn Miller band periodically slowed the tempo of their repertoire with quieter ballads as this 1940 hit, also popularized by Bing Crosby, shows. Later versions varied enigmatically from hip jazz interpretations by Mark Murphy and Anita O'Day to a bizarrely semi-spoken effort by romantic novelist Barbara Cartland.
19. Night And Day - Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra
(Cole Porter) Warner Chappell
Astaire's 1932 screen test famously concluded: "Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little," but Cole Porter for one was able to discern the talent which introduced his urbane composition in The Gay Divorce (filmed as Divorcee). Night And Day also provided the title for the 1946 Porter biopic where Cary Grant portrayed the writer's alter ego.
20. Isn't It Romantic? - Jeanette MacDonald
(Rodgers & Hart) Famous Music Publishing Ltd.
Lorenz Hart, who wrote the lyrics in the partnership with Richard Rodgers, was Cole Porter's principal rival for the intelligence and wit of his Broadway work. A wayward bohemian who inevitably parted from the more prosaic Rodgers eventually, Hart created this outstanding song for 1932's Love Me Tonight which featured Jeanette MacDonald in pre-Nelson Eddy days.
21. I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday
(Gershwin/Duke) Warner Chappell
Billie Holiday's earliest recordings were notable for their predominant optimism, but this mellow Gershwin ballad from 1936 allowed her to bring her trademark melancholy drawl to less sanguine material. It also became the theme tune of trumpeter/bandleader Bunny Berigan.
22. Someone To Watch Over Me - Frank Sinatra
(George & Ira Gershwin) Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
Another fragile Gershwin song first made famous by Gertrude Lawrence in the 1926 show Oh Kay, Sinatra oozed vulnerability on his tender account which appeared in the movie Young At Heart and coincided with his Oscar for his supporting role in From Here To Eternity.
---Neil Kellas |
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