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    I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin

    09/09/2024

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    All Music Guide Review

    This wide-ranging four-CD set has performances of George Gershwin's music divided into four categories: Popular Song, Stage and Screen, Concert Hall, and Jazz. The 71 recordings range from fairly straight Broadway singers to classical music, jazz, and several piano solos from Gershwin himself. The beauty of this collection as it has been assembled by producer Dwight Blocker Bowers is that it goes into so many far-flung corners of the composer's work and output -- not only into the work of familiar names such as Ethel Waters, Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Tony Bennett, and Linda Ronstadt in the popular song category, but also such less-well-known but important names as Johnny Marvin; and, in the "On Stage and Screen" volume, notable recordings by Irene Bordoni ("I Won't Say I Will"), Heather Thatcher ("Boy Wanted"), and Tessa Kosta ("Song of the Flame"), and revelations such as Cliff Edwards' amazing rendition of "Fascinating Rhythm." Gershwin himself dominates the "Concert Hall" volume as a performing artist, augmented by the presence of Leonard Pennario on the "Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra," and the Juilliard String Quartet on the "Lullaby for String Quartet." Although not all of the music is of equal interest, there are enough rarities included to interest even veteran collectors and the 64-page booklet is quite appealing, and the producers have also done an excellent job of cleaning up and improving certain technically deficient historical recordings, such as Thatcher's rendition of "Boy Wanted," from a 1921 acoustically recorded cast production; additionally, they have reached out to the licensing of actual film soundtrack excerpts, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, to represent such works as "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," from Shall We Dance. One could easily do double- or triple-CD sets devoted to the jazz, popular, and theatrical aspects of Gershwin's work, but as an overview of all of them within manageable boundaries, this is a well-conceived and successful reissue of valuable music. ~ Scott Yanow & Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

    I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • Stanley, Aileen
  • 2:35

  • 2
  • Funny Face
  • Marvin, Johnny
  • 2:52

  • 3
  • I Got Rhythm
  • Waters, Ethel
  • 3:03

  • 4
  • Bidin' My Time
  • Blue Jeans
  • 3:15

  • 5
  • Sam and Delilah
  • 3:25

  • 6
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It
  • Sullivan, Maxine
  • 2:46

  • 7
  • Who Cares?
  • Astaire, Fred
  • 2:48

  • 8
  • But Not for Me
  • 3:00

  • 9
  • The Man I Love
  • Horne, Lena
  • 3:19

  • 10
  • Embraceable You
  • 2:48

  • 11
  • Mine
  • 2:44

  • 12
  • Someone to Watch over Me
  • Wiley, Lee
  • 3:11

  • 13
  • Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?
  • 3:09

  • 14
  • Love Walked In
  • King, Teddi
  • 2:20

  • 15
  • Isn't It a Pity?
  • Vaughan, Sarah
  • 3:52

  • 16
  • I Loves You, Porgy
  • Carroll, Diahann
  • 3:17

  • 17
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?
  • Shore, Dinah
  • 2:43

  • 18
  • Love Is Here to Stay
  • Bennett, Tony
  • 2:12

  • 19
  • Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!
  • Walker, Nancy
  • 3:02

  • 20
  • I Don't Think I'll Fall in Love Today
  • 2:40

  • 21
  • Do It Again
  • Webb, Marti
  • 4:24

  • 22
  • I've Got a Crush on You
  • Ronstadt, Linda
  • 3:25

  • 23 (2)
  • I Won't Say I Will
  • Bordoni, Irene
  • 2:43

  • 24 (2)
  • Boy Wanted
  • Thatcher, Heather
  • 2:58

  • 25 (2)
  • Fascinating Rhythm
  • Edwards, Cliff "Ukelele Ike"
  • 2:52

  • 26 (2)
  • Song of the Flame
  • Kosta, Tessa
  • 2:46

  • 27 (2)
  • Someone to Watch over Me
  • Lawrence, Gertrude
  • 3:18

  • 28 (2)
  • Funny Face
  • 3:03

  • 29 (2)
  • Of Thee I Sing (Overture)
  • NBC Radio Orchestra
  • 3:32

  • 30 (2)
  • My Cousin in Milwaukee
  • Roberti, Lyda
  • 2:57

  • 31 (2)
  • Prelude/Summertime
  • Mitchell, Abbie
  • 4:08

  • 32 (2)
  • The Buzzard Song
  • Tibbett, Lawrence
  • 3:48

  • 33 (2)
  • I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
  • Duncan, Todd
  • 2:42

  • 34 (2)
  • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
  • 5:00

  • 35 (2)
  • I Was Doing All Right
  • Logan, Ella
  • 3:06

  • 36 (2)
  • Could You Use Me?
  • 3:00

  • 37 (2)
  • Swanee
  • Jolson, Al
  • 1:53

  • 38 (2)
  • They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • Astaire, Fred
  • 4:32

  • 39 (2)
  • I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
  • Guetary, Georges
  • 2:36

  • 40 (2)
  • 'S Wonderful
  • 2:51

  • 41 (2)
  • It Ain't Necessarily So
  • Bubbles, John W.
  • 2:55

  • 42 (2)
  • Bess, You Is My Woman Now
  • 5:05

  • 43 (2)
  • Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way!
  • Albert, Donnie Ray
  • 1:34

  • 44 (2)
  • I Got Rhythm
  • Benson, Jodi
  • 7:32

  • 45 (3)
  • Rhapsody in Blue
  • 9:03

  • 46 (3)
  • Prelude No. 1
  • Gershwin, George
  • 1:17

  • 47 (3)
  • Prelude No. 2
  • Gershwin, George
  • 2:31

  • 48 (3)
  • Prelude No. 3
  • Gershwin, George
  • :58

  • 49 (3)
  • Andante from Rhapsody in Blue
  • Gershwin, George
  • 2:24

  • 50 (3)
  • An American in Paris
  • Victor Symphony Orchestra
  • 15:44

  • 51 (3)
  • Variations on "I Got Rhythm"
  • Gershwin, George
  • 8:33

  • 52 (3)
  • Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
  • 14:08

  • 53 (3)
  • Lullaby for String Quartet
  • Julliard String Quartet
  • 7:59

  • 54 (4)
  • I Got Rhythm
  • Redman, Don & His Orchestra
  • 3:20

  • 55 (4)
  • Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
  • Noone, Jimmie & His Orchestra
  • 2:48

  • 56 (4)
  • Summertime
  • Holiday, Billie
  • 2:54

  • 57 (4)
  • Oh, Lady Be Good
  • 3:05

  • 58 (4)
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • Goodman, Benny & His Orchestra
  • 2:49

  • 59 (4)
  • 'S Wonderful
  • Goodman, Benny & Quartet
  • 3:25

  • 60 (4)
  • I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
  • Williams, Johnny Swing Sextet
  • 2:48

  • 61 (4)
  • The Man I Love
  • Shaw, Artie & His Orchestra
  • 3:08

  • 62 (4)
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • 2:40

  • 63 (4)
  • The Man I Love
  • Holiday, Billie
  • 3:02

  • 64 (4)
  • Love Walked In
  • Baker, Chet
  • 2:56

  • 65 (4)
  • But Not for Me
  • Garner, Erroll
  • 3:33

  • 66 (4)
  • They All Laughed
  • 3:46

  • 67 (4)
  • My Man's Gone Now
  • 6:50

  • 68 (4)
  • A Foggy Day
  • 3:21

  • 69 (4)
  • Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
  • 4:36

  • 70 (4)
  • Summertime
  • Manne, Shelly & His Men
  • 12:02

  • 71 (4)
  • The Man I Love
  • 7:48

    • Credits of I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin

    • Don Redman
    • Arranger, Sax (Alto), Performer, Director


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