Notes: This 4-CD set features popular songs and concert music of Gershwin (as well as songs by other composers) including a reissue of the PORGY AND BESS selections from the Reader's Digest album, TREASURY OF GREAT OPERETTAS.
Notes: This CD features the concert music of Gershwin, but includes a reissue of the PORGY AND BESS selections from the RD album Treasury of Great Operettas.
Tracks: Side A:
1. Overture
2. Song of fhe Vagabonds (Villon and Chorus)
3. Love for Sale (Huguette and Chorus)
4. Drinking Song (Tabary and Chorus)
5. Some Day (Katherine)
6. Only a Rose (Katherine and Villon)
7. Act III Opening: Nocturne (Chorus)
8. Tomorrow (Katherine and Villon)
9. Huguette Waltz (Huguette)
10. Love Me Tonight (Katherine and Villon)
11. Finale: Only a Rose (Katherine, Villon and Chorus)
Side B:
Porgy & Bess
Posted 2007-12-14 09:25:56: Amazon.com: This 4 CD set released by Reader's Digest Music in 2001 contains 70 songs from composer George Gershwin and other songwriters from his time. Features over 60 performers such as Gershwin himself, Perry Como, Henry Mancini, Kate Smith, Carmen Cavallaro, Glenn Miller, Liberace, Mario Lanza, Peggy Lee, Al Hirt, Judy Garland, Al Jolson, Julie Andrews, Bob Hope, The Boston Pops&Arthur Fielder and many more!
Track Listing:
Disk 1
Embraceable You
'S Wonderful
Love Is Here to Stay
Someone to Watch Over Me
A Foggy Day
Nice Work Of You Can Get It
The Can't Take That Away from Me
But Not for Me
He Loves and She Loves
Somebody Loves Me
They All Laughed
I've Got a Crush on You
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Do-Do-Do
Bidin' My Time
That Certain Feeling
Fascinatin' Rhythm
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Disk 2
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Skylark
Oh, Lady Be Good
Stardust
Lovely to Look
Blue Moon
It's De-Lovely
Love Walked In
I Got Rhythm
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
I Can't Get Started (with you)
'S Wonderful / A Foggy Day / Soon
Tea for Two
Easy to Love
Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)
Deep Purple
The Man I Love
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Swanee
I'll Be Seeing You
Someone to Watch Over Me
Disk 3
Begin the Beguine
My Romance
I ONly Have Eyes for You
Without a Song
The Way You Look Tonight
Why Do I Love You?
Deep in My Heart, Dear
Of Thee I sing
Over The Rainbow
Lullaby of Broadway
My One and Only
Look for the Silver Lining
Wonderful One
All the Things You Are
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
Night and Day
September Song
Always
Disk 4
Rhapsody in Blue
Variations on "I Got Rhythm"
Theme from Prelude No. 2
An American in Paris
Prelude and Summertime
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
It Ain't Necessarily So
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
My Man's Gone Now
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Oh Lawd, Im on My Way