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The Essential George Gershwin
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Originally Released: 2003
Discs: 2
Label: Legacy Recordings
Item Number: LEG99132

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The Essential George Gershwin
Track Listings
  Title
Listen
0.    DISC 1:   
1.    Prelude No. 2 For Piano
2.    I Got Rhythm
3.    Oh Lady, Be Good
4.    Summertime
5.    Nice Work If You Can Get It
6.    They Can't Take That Away From Me
7.    Swanee
8.    Liza
9.    Someone to Watch Over Me
10.    'S Wonderful
11.    Do It Again
12.    Soon
13.    Fascinatin' Rhythm / Someone To Watch Over Me
14.    Man I Love, The
15.    Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
16.    Love Is Here to Stay
17.    How Long Has This Been Going On?
18.    Blues
19.    But Not For Me
20.    Foggy Day, A
21.    I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
22.    Third Movement - (Allegro Agitato)
0.    DISC 2:   
1.    Of Thee I Sing Overture
2.    They All Laughed
3.    Of Thee I Sing
4.    Promenade (Walking the Dog)
5.    I've Got a Crush on You
6.    Somebody Loves Me
7.    Love Walked In / Embraceable You
8.    Mine
9.    Isn't It a Pity
10.    Introduction and Jazzbo Brown
11.    It Ain't Necessarily So
12.    Bess, You Is My Woman Now
13.    I Loves You, Porgy
14.    My Man's Gone Now
15.    There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
16.    Who Cares?
17.    Rhapsody in Blue
18.    Strike up the Band
19.    Home Blues
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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