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George Gershwin: History [Box]
(CD, 2000)
Primary Artist: George Gershwin
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Format: CD
May 2000
8 Discs
Record Label: History (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 401122320029 |
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Track Listing
DISC 1: GERSHWIN PLAYS GERSHWINS - RARE RECORDINGS:
1. Variations On "Fascinating Rhythm" / Variations On Liza
2. Second Prelude
3. Interview
4. I Got Rhythm
5. Signature
6. Of Thee I Sing - (overture)
7. Man I Love, The
8. I Got Rhythm
9. Commercial
10. Swannee - (sign off)
11. Signature
12. Mine
13. Variations on "I Got Rhythm"
14. Love Is Sweeping the Country
15. Commercial
16. Wintergreen For President; Sign Off
17. Introduction: Summertime - (featuring Abbie Mitchell)
18. Woman Is a Sometime Thing, A - (featuring Edward Mathews)
19. Act I, Scene 1: Finale
20. My Man's Gone Now - (featuring Ruby Elzy)
21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - (featuring Todd Duncan/Anne Brown)
DISC 2: INSTRUMENTAL WORKS FOR THE CONCERT HALL:
1. Rhapsody in Blue - (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
2. Prelude #1
3. Prelude #2
4. Prelude #3
5. Andante From Rhapsody in Blue
6. American in Paris, An - (with Victor Symphony Orchestra)
7. Second Rhapsody Rehearsal Performance
DISC 3: GERSHWIN ON SCREEN I: GIRL CRAZY & RHAPSODY IN BLUE:
1. You've Got What Gets Me - (with Eddie Quillan/Dixie Lee/Mitzi Green/The RKO Radio Studio Orchestra)
2. Fascinating Rhythm - (with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra/Mickey Rooney)
3. Embraceable You - (with Judy Garland/Ralph Blane/Henry Kurze/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra)
4. Boy! What Love Has Done to Me - (extended version, with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra)
5. Treat Me Rough - (extended version, with June Allyson/Mickey Rooney Blane/Henry Kurze/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra)
6. I Got Rhythm - (with Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra/Six Hits & A Miss/The Music Maids/Hal Hooper)
7. Could You Use Me? - (with Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney)
8. Overture Medley: Swanee / Somebody Loves Me / Fascinating Rhythm / Embraceable You / Oh Lady, Be Good / The Man I Love / I Got Rhythm / Liza / Rhapsody In Blue / Strike Up The Band
9. Swanee - (with Al Jolson)
10. 135th Street Blues (Blue Monday) - (with John B. Hughes/Warner Bros. Studio Chorus)
11. Summertime - (extended version, with Ann Brown)
12. Delishious - (extended version, with Sally Sweetland/Joan Leslie)
13. Third Prelude - (outtake, with Oscar Levant)
DISC 4: GERSHWIN ON SCREEN II: SHALL WE DANCE/DAMSEL IN DISTRESS & OTHERS:
1. Shall We Dance - (overture)
2. Slap That Bass - (with Fred Astaire)
3. Beginner's Luck, (I've Got) - (with Fred Astaire/RKO Orchestra)
4. They All Laughed - (extended chorus, with Ginger Rogers)
5. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - (with Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire)
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me - (with Fred Astaire/RKO Radio Orchestra)
7. Promenade (Walking the Dog) - (with Nathaniel Shilkret/RKO Radio Orchestra)
8. Shall We Dance - (finale, with Fred Astaire)
9. I Can't Be Bothered Now - (with Fred Astaire/Rko Radio Orchestra)
10. Foggy Day, A - (with Fred Astaire/Rko Radio Orchestra)
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It - (with Fred Astaire/Jan Duggen/Mary Dean/Pearl Amatore)
12. Things Are Looking Up - (with Fred Astaire/RKO Radio Ochestra)
13. I Was Doing All Right - (with Ella Logan)
14. Love Walked In - (outtake, with Virginia Verril/Jon Hall/Edward Powell & The Samuel Goldwyn Studio Orchestra)
15. Oh! Lady Be Good - (with Artie Shaw & His Orchestra)
DISC 5: GERSHWIN ON SCREEN III: STRIKE UP THE BAND/BROADWAY RHYTHM/ZIEGFELD FOLLIES:
1. Strike up the Band - (with Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney/Six Hits & A Miss/George Stall & The MGM Studio Chorus & Orchestra)
2. Somebody Loves Me - (with Lena Horne/MGM Studio Orchestra)
3. Babbit and the Bromide, The - (with Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly)
4. Liza (All the Clouds'll Rollaway) - (with Avon Long/MGM Studio Chorus)
5. Opening Music / Sweet Packard - (with Vocal Chorus)
6. Changing My Tune - (with Betty Gable)
7. Stand up and Fight
8. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did - (with Betty Grable/Dick Haymes)
9. Changing My Tune - (reprise, with Betty Grable)
10. Back Bay Polka, The - (with Betty Grable/Allyn Joslyn/Charles Kemper)
11. One, Two, Three / Waltzing Is Better Sitting Down / Waltz Me No Waltzes - (with Betty Grable)
12. For You, For Me, For Everyone - (with Dick Haymes/Betty Grable)
13. For You, For Me, For Everyone - (reprise, with Dick Haymes)
14. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did - (finale, with Betty Grable/Dick Haymes)
DISC 6: GERSHWIN: EARLY RECORDS OF THE 20'S: BROADWAY SHOWS & MUSICALS:
1. Somebody Loves Me - (with The Columbians Dance Ochestra)
2. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
3. Nashville Nightingale - (with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians)
4. I Won't Say I Will (But I Won't Say I Won't) - (with Irene Bordoni)
5. Boy Wanted - (with Heather Thatcher)
6. Song of the Flame - (with Tessa Kosta)
7. Clap Your Hands - (with Roger Wolfe Khan & His Orchestra)
8. Do, Do, Do - (with Gertrude Lawrence)
9. Fascinating Rhythm - (with Cliff Edwards/Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
10. Oh! Lady Be Good - (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
11. Funny Face - (with Fred & Adele Astaire)
12. That Certain Feeling - (with Percival Mackey & His Band)
13. Looking For a Boy - (with Roger Wolfe Khan & His Orchestra)
14. Sweet and Low Down - (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
15. Man I Love, The - (with Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra/Vaughn DeLeath)
DISC 7: GERSHWIN: LATER BROADWAY MUSICALS:
1. My One and Only - (with Johnny Johnson & His Statler Pennsylvanians/Charles Murray/Sam Browne/Bob Treaster)
2. 'S Wonderful - (with Victor Arden/Phil Ohman & Orchestra)
3. Oh Gee!-Oh Joy! - (with Ben Selvin & His Orchestra)
4. Liza - (with Leo Reisman & His Orchestra)
5. Soon - (with Victor Arden/Phil Ohman & Orchestra)
6. I Got Rhythm - (with Ethel Walters)
7. Bidin' My Time - (with The Blue Jeans)
8. Sam and Delilah - (with Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra/Chick Bullock)
9. My Cousin in Milwaukee - (with Lyda Roberti)
10. Let 'Em Eat Cake - (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
11. Of Thee I Sing Overture - (with NBC Radio Orchestra)
12. Who Cares? - (with Victor Arden/Phil Ohman & Their Orchestras)
13. Buzzard Song, The - (with Lawrence Tibbett)
14. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - (with Todd Duncan)
15. Man I Love, The - (with Lena Horne)
DISC 8: GERSHWIN: GREAT SONGS PRESENTES BY GREAT STARS:
1. Somebody Loves Me - (with Benny Goodman & His Orchestra)
2. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - (with Johnny Williams & His Swing Sextet)
3. Summertime - (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
4. 'S Wonderful - (with Benny Goodman Quartet)
5. Liza - (with Nat "King" Cole Trio)
6. Who Cares? - (with Fred Astaire)
7. But Not For Me - (with Harry James & His Orchestra/Helen Frost)
8. Embraceable You - (with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra)
9. But Not For Me - (with Judy Garland/Ivan Ditmars)
10. Mine - (with Bing Crosby/Judy Garland)
11. Aren't Ya Kinda Glad We Did? - (with Vaughn Monroe/Betty Norton)
12. Man I Love, The - (with Billie Holiday)
13. Someone to Watch Over Me - (with Frank Sinatra/Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra)
14. Embraceable You - (with Charlie Parker Quintet)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Abbie Mitchell, Anne Brown, Benny Goodman, Betty Grable, Billie Holiday, Edward Mathews, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Paul Whiteman, Ruby Elzy, Todd Duncan, Tommy Dorsey | | Distributor: | Empire Music Group Inc. | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: George Gershwin, Abbie Mitchell, Edward Mathews, Ruby Elzy, Todd Duncan, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland,Hal Hooper, Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Lawrence Tibbett, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker Quintet, Bing Crosby, Axel Stordahl, Victor Arden, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Artie Shaw, Ginger Rogers, Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra & Chorus, RKO Radio Orchestra, MGM Studio Orchestra & Chorus.
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