The Gershwin Years

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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▼ CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Embraceable You
Bing Crosby2:56
2’S Wonderful
Kate Smith2:07
3Love Is Here to Stay
Nat King Cole2:50
4Someone to Watch Over Me
recording of:
Someone to Watch Over Me (Oh, Kay!)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1926)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1926)
publisher:
Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28), Harms, Inc. (in 1926) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
part of:
Crazy for You (1992 musical)
part of:
Oh, Kay! (1926 musical)
Helen Forrest2:10
5A Foggy Day
Fred Astaire2:23
6Nice Work If You Can Get It
Dinah Shore2:06
7They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Perry Como2:31
8But Not for Me
Rosemary Clooney2:51
9He Loves and She Loves
lead vocals:
Fred Astaire
vocals:
Fred Astaire
recording of:
He Loves and She Loves
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1927)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1927)
publisher:
WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
part of:
Funny Face (1927 musical)
part of:
My One and Only (1983 Broadway musical)
Fred Astaire5:03
10Somebody Loves Me
vocals:
Peggy Lee (jazz vocalist)
cover recording of:
Somebody Loves Me (in 1955)
lyricist:
Buddy DeSylva and Ballard MacDonald
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1924)
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd., Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin) and Stephen Ballentine Music Publishing Co.
part of:
Broadway Rhythm (film)
Peggy Lee23:31
11They All Laughed
Bing Crosby2:41
12I’ve Got a Crush on You
cover recording of:
I’ve Got a Crush on You
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1928)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1928)
publisher:
New World Music Corp. (ended), Warner Bros. Music Corp. (ended), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
part of:
Treasure Girl (1928 musical)
Ella Fitzgerald3:30
13How Long Has This Been Going On?
recording of:
How Long Has This Been Going On? (Funny Face, 1957 film)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1928)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1928)
publisher:
New World Music Co. (in 1927)
part of:
My One and Only (1983 Broadway musical)
part of:
Rosalie
Judy Garland3:28
14Swanee
Al Jolson1:57
15Do‐Do‐Do
recording of:
Do, Do, Do
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
part of:
Oh, Kay! (1926 musical)
Julie Andrews1:41
16Bidin’ My Time
Margaret Whiting2:49
17That Certain Feeling
Bob Hope2:16
18Fascinatin’ Rhythm
The Hi‐Lo’s1:32
19Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
cover recording of:
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off (from “Shall We Dance”)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1937)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1937)
publisher:
Gershwin Publishing Corp (in 1937)
part of:
Shall We Dance (1937 film soundtrack)
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong4:12
▼ CD 2
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
recording of:
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin (in 1937)
publisher:
Irving Berlin Music Company, Irving Berlin Music Corp., Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996) and Williamson Music Company
sub-publisher:
シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント and ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
Les Brown and His Band of Renown2:50
2Skylark
cover recording of:
Skylark
lyricist:
Johnny Mercer
composer:
Hoagy Carmichael (in 1941)
publisher:
Frank Music Corp., George Simon Music Co., George Simon, Inc., Hoagy Publishing Co., Songs of Peer, Ltd. (ASCAP), The Johnny Mercer Foundation, Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
sub-publisher:
日音 Synch事業部
Helen Forrest & Harry James Orchestra3:30
3Oh, Lady Be Good
Benny Goodman Quintet3:36
4Stardust
recording of:
Stardust (the jazz standard)
lyricist:
Mitchell Parish (in 1929)
composer:
Hoagy Carmichael (in 1927)
publisher:
Mills Music, Inc. (ended), All Nations Music, EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated), EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Everbright Music Co., Hoagy Publishing Co., Lawrence Wright Music Co., Ltd. and Songs of Peer, Ltd. (ASCAP)
sub-publisher:
イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of:
American Splendor
Dinah Shore & Glenn Miller2:18
5Lovely to Look At
Lew Sherwood & Eddy Duchin3:01
6Blue Moon
Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra3:55
7It’s De‐Lovely
Carmen Cavallaro's Orchestra1:39
8Love Walked In
Tommy Ryan & Sammy Kaye3:07
9I Got Rhythm
Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra4:22
10My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Marion Hutton & Glenn Miller2:39
11I Can’t Get Started With You
Al Hirt3:36
12’S Wonderful / A Foggy Day/Soon
Skitch Henderson & The New York Pops7:24
13Tea for Two
Frank Horrox, His Piano And Orchestra2:56
14Easy to Love
Gordon Langford & Douglas Gamley2:59
15All the Clouds Roll Away
Marty Paich1:51
16Deep Purple
Jim Tyler2:48
17The Man I Love
Johnny Guarnieri3:03
18Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
instrumental recording of:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
lyricist:
Otto Harbach
composer:
Jerome Kern
publisher:
Chappell & Co Ltd., Chappell & Co., Chappell Music (UK), Chappell Music Ltd., PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (renamed Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. circa 1998), PolyGram Music Publishing Ltd., Redwood Music, T.B. Harms Co. and Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (existed only since ca. 1998)
translated version of:
Sen jag mötte dig
part of:
Roberta
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra2:43
19Swanee
Marty Paich Orchestra2:01
20I’ll Be Seeing You
Liberace2:52
21Someone to Watch Over Me
Ronnie Price Orchestra3:18
▼ CD 3
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Begin the Beguine
The Norman Luboff Choir3:53
2My Romance
Mario Lanza3:39
3I Only Have Eyes for You
Margaret Whiting3:42
4Without a Song
Ed Ames3:24
5The Way You Look Tonight
The Romantic Voices3:04
6Why Do I Love You?
London Promenade Orchestra3:00
7Deep in My Heart, Dear
Jeanette Scovotti & William Lewis3:39
8Of Thee I Sing
Robert Mandell2:23
9Over the Rainbow
Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers & Paul Weston Orchestra2:57
10Lullaby of Broadway
The Tophatters3:24
11My One and Only
recorded in:
London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (on 1928-12-04)
piano:
Mario Braggiotti (1920s pianist) (on 1928-12-04) and Jack Frey (UK 1920s pianist) (on 1928-12-04)
vocals:
Fred Astaire with piano duet accompaniment (on 1928-12-04)
orchestra:
Julian Jones and His Orchestra (on 1928-12-04)
recording of:
My One and Only (from “Funny Face”) (on 1928-12-04)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin (in 1927)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1927)
publisher:
WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28)
part of:
Funny Face (1927 musical)
part of:
My One and Only (1983 Broadway musical)
Fred Astaire3:03
12Look for the Silver Lining
John Norman Chorale2:57
13Wonderful One
Boston Pops Orchestra & Arthur Fiedler4:12
14All the Things You Are
Michael Maguire, Skitch Henderson & The New York Pops3:18
15I’ll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
Romantic Strings Orchestra4:10
16Night and Day
Ed Ames2:47
17September Song
Hildegarde3:20
18Always
Gordon MacRae2:32
▼ CD 4
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Rhapsody in Blue
piano:
George Gershwin (composer) (on 1927-04-21)
orchestra:
Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra (on 1927-04-21)
conductor:
Paul Whiteman
recorded at:
Liederkranz Hall in New York, New York, United States
recording of:
Rhapsody in Blue (1926 Grofé revision) (on 1927-04-21)
orchestrator:
Ferde Grofé (pianist, arranger, conductor and composer) (in 1926)
composer:
George Gershwin (composer) (in 1924)
publisher:
Chappell & Co. (in 1927)
revision of:
Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 jazz band version, less often performed)
George Gershwin & Paul Whiteman Concert Orchestra9:04
2Variations on “I Got Rhythm”
National Philharmonic Orchestra8:54
3Theme From Prelude No. 2
London Promenade Orchestra3:41
4An American in Paris
National Philharmonic Orchestra18:37
5Prelude and Summertime
Anna Moffo3:12
6A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Andrew Frierson2:00
7It Ain’t Necessarily So
Avon Long3:05
8I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
Valentine Pringel2:48
9Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Valentine Pringel & Urlyee Leonardos5:11
10My Man’s Gone Now
Billie Daniels3:56
11There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
Avon Long2:20
12Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way
Valentine Pringel1:39