Tracks: 1. Close/Rosalie
2. Ev'rything I Love/Let's Face It/You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To/Something To Shout About...
3. I've A Shooting Box In Scotland/See America First
4. I'm Throwing A Ball Tonight/Panama Hattie
5. Me And Marie/Jubilee
6. Begin The Beguine/Jubilee
7. When The Summer Moon Comes 'Long (College Song)
8. I Get A Kick Out Of You/Anything Goes/Anything Goes
9. Down In The Depths/Red, Hot And Blue/Just One Of Those Things/Jubilee
10. A Picture Of Me Without You/Jubilee
11. Night And Day/Gay Divorce
12. What Is This Thing Called Love?/Wake Up And Dream/It's All Right With Me/Can-Can
13. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye/Seven Lively Arts
14. They Couldn't Compare To You/Out Of This World
15. Can-Can/Can-Can
16. You Don't Know Paree/Fifty Million Frenchmen/I Love Paris/Can-Can
17. I Concentrate On You/Broadway Melody Of 1940/In The Still Of The Night/Rosalie
18. Take Me Back To Manhattan/The New Yorkers
19. I Happen To Like New York/The New Yorkers
20. I've Got You Under My Skin/Born To Dance
Posted 2007-09-27 23:18:48: Amazon.com: Steve Ross has such an affinity with Cole Porter that no less an authority than Michael Feinstein said he couldn't begin to approach Ross's "perfect rendition" of "Can Can." That song is only one of the 25 Porter tunes both familiar and unfamiliar collected on this 1996 album, Close. Like fellow cabaret legend Bobby Short, Ross doesn't have the most beautiful singing instrument, but he has an expert way around a lyric, and his piano accompaniments are perfect ("I Get a Kick Out of You" is only one example). If you happen to like New York cabaret, you'll happen to like Steve Ross. --David Horiuchi
