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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Everything I Have Is Yours
2. Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
3. Blue Moon
4. Mr. B's Blues
5. Temptation
6. Somehow
7. Caravan
8. Bewildered
9. Body and Soul
10. My Foolish Heart
11. Ev'ryday (I Fall in Love) - (with Sarah Vaughan)
12. I Love You - (with Sarah Vaughan)
13. Dedicated to You - (with Sarah Vaughan)
14. You're All I Need - (with Sarah Vaughan)
15. I Wanna Be Loved
16. You've Got Me Crying Again
17. I've Never Been in Love Before
18. I Apologize
19. As Long as I Live
20. I Left My Hat in Haiti
DISC 2:
1. Here Comes the Blues
2. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
3. Wonder Why
4. I'm a Fool to Want You
5. Taking a Chance on Love
6. You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)
7. Early Autumn
8. Tenderly
9. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
10. If You Could See Me Now
11. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
12. Laura
13. Mister You've Gone and Got the Blues
14. Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
15. April in Paris
16. Coquette
17. Send My Baby Back to Me
18. How High the Moon (Parts 1 and 2)
19. St. Louis Blues (Parts 1 and 2)
20. Don't Get Around Much Any More
21. Lost in Loveliness
22. Passing Strangers - (with Sarah Vaughan)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Billy Eckstine (vocals, valve trombone); Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Lester Young, Jimmy Guiffre, Ted Nash (tenor saxophone); Harry "Sweets" Edison, Shorty Rodgers, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Harry Betts, Kai Winding (trombone); John LaPorta (clarinet); Teddy Wilson, George Shearing (piano); Dick Evans, Barney Kessel (guitar); Al McKibbon, Red Callender (bass); Denzil Best, Lee Young, Max Roach, Louis Bellson (drums); Sonny Burke's Orchestra, Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra, Buddy Baker's Orchestra, Russ Case's Orchestra, Joe Lipman's Orchestra, Peter Rugolo's Orchestra, Woody Herman's Orchestra, Nelson Riddle's Orhcestra, The Lee Gordon Singers, Lou Bring's Orchestra, Hal Mooney's Orchestra.
Compilation producers: Bob Porter, Richard Seidel.
Recorded between 1947 and 1957. Includes liner notes by Lee Jeske.
Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios).
The singer Billy Eckstine has two distinct reputations, one within jazz, one in the world outside of it. The first is as leader of the innovative proto-bebop big band that boasted Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, and others within its ranks at some time or other. The other, far greater distinction is as one of the most powerful vocalists in any genre. EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS collects the early MGM popular recordings that first established Eckstine as a major star.
Billy Eckstine was once tagged "the sepia Sinatra." Apart from its slight condescension, the comparison is inaccurate in that Eckstine shared none of Sinatra's vocal frailties or his psychological complexities. As the jazz vocal expert Will Friedwald once noted, Eckstine "sang like a god." His instantly recognizable burnished baritone just drove the melody forward without hesitation or scruple, even to the point of undermining the lyric on his great hit "I Apologize." For a taste of Eckstine's pure romantic power, listen to his duets with the young Sarah Vaughan on the rhapsodic "Dedicated to You" or Cole Porter's "I Love You," as these two magnificent voices make beautiful music together.
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