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DISC 1:
1. Prelude No. 2 For Piano
2. I Got Rhythm - (with Ethel Waters)
3. Oh Lady, Be Good - (with Buck & Bubbles)
4. Summertime - (with Billie Holiday)
5. Nice Work If You Can Get It - (with Maxine Sullivan & Her Orchestra)
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me - (with Fred Astaire)
7. Swanee - (with Al Jolson)
8. Liza - (with Benny Goodman)
9. Someone to Watch Over Me - (with Frank Sinatra)
10. 'S Wonderful - (with Dinah Shore/Buddy Clark)
11. Do It Again - (with Jane Russell)
12. Soon - (with Dorothy Kirsten)
13. Fascinatin' Rhythm / Someone To Watch Over Me - (with Morton Gould, His Piano & Orchestra)
14. Man I Love, The - (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra)
15. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - (with Fred Astaire)
16. Love Is Here to Stay - (with Gene Kelly)
17. How Long Has This Been Going On? - (with Felicia Sanders)
18. Blues - (with Harry James & His Orchestra)
19. But Not For Me - (with Doris Day)
20. Foggy Day, A - (with Rosemary Clooney)
21. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - (with Georges Guetary)
22. Third Movement - (Allegro Agitato, with Oscar Levant)
DISC 2:
1. Of Thee I Sing Overture - (with Buffalo Philharmonic)
2. They All Laughed - (with Tony Bennett)
3. Of Thee I Sing - (with The Hi-Lo's)
4. Promenade (Walking the Dog) - (with The Los Angeles Philharmonic)
5. I've Got a Crush on You - (with Ella Fitzgerald)
6. Somebody Loves Me - (with Alberta Hunter)
7. Love Walked In / Embraceable You - (with Maureen McGovern)
8. Mine - (with Dick Hyman)
9. Isn't It a Pity - (with Mel Tormé)
10. Introduction and Jazzbo Brown - (with Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra)
11. It Ain't Necessarily So - (with Aretha Franklin)
12. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - (with Robert McFerrin/Adele Addison)
13. I Loves You, Porgy - (with Miles Davis)
14. My Man's Gone Now - (with Sarah Vaughan)
15. There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York - (with Cab Calloway)
16. Who Cares? - (with Tony Bennett)
17. Rhapsody in Blue
18. Strike up the Band - (with Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra)
19. Home Blues - (with Michael Feinstein)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: George Gershwin (piano); Michael Feinstein (vocals, piano); Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Al Jolson (vocals); Dick McDonough (guitar); Artie Shaw (clarinet); Lester Young (tenor saxophone); Miles Davis, Bunny Berigan (trumpet); Joe Bushkin (piano); Jo Jones (drums).
Compilation producers: Michael Feinstein, Didier C. Deutsch.
Includes liner notes by Tim Page and Diane Warren.
This two-disc set features a wide variety of interpretations of one of the 20th century's best-known composers, George Gershwin, from Whispering Jack Smith's genteel rendering of "Funny Face" to a youthful Ella Fitzgerald performing "I Was Doing All Right," with the added bonus of a couple of performances from Gershwin himself, performing "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris."
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