The essential George Gershwin

2 compact audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording

Compact disc
Most selections previously released
Program notes by Tim Page and Diane Warren in container insert
Compilation producers, Michael Feinstein, Didier C. Deutsch
Various artists
Recorded between 1925 and 2002
Wheatland: Sights and Sounds - February, 2003

disc 1. Prelude no. 2 for piano / (George Gershwin) (2:39)
I got rhythm / (Ethel Waters) (3:03)
Oh lady, be good / (Buck & Bubbles) (3:28)
Summertime / (Billy Holiday) (2:53)
Nice work if you can get it / (Maxine Sullivan and her orchestra) (2:49)
They can't take that away from me / (Fred Astaire) (3:06)
Swanee / (Al Jolson) (1:33)
Liza / (Benny Goodman) (3:00)
Someone to watch over me / (Frank Sinatra) (3:19)
'S wonderful / (Dinah Shore, Buddy Clark) (2:36)
Do it again / (Jane Russell) (3:15)
Soon / (Dorothy Kirsten) (2:56)
Fascinating rhythm ; Someone to watch over me / (Morton Gould, his piano and orchestra) (8:06)
Man I love / (Billie Holiday and her orchestra) (3:04)
Let's call the whole thing off / (Fred Astaire) (3:13)
Love is here to stay / (Gene Kelly) (4:06)
How long has this been going on? / (Felicia Sanders) (3:04)
Blues / (Harry James and his orchestra) (4:10)
But not for me / (Doris Day) (2:36)
Foggy day / (Rosemary Clooney) (2:51)
I'll build a stairway to paradise / (Georges Guétary) (2:34)
Third movement (Allegro agitato) / (Oscar Levant) (6:25)
disc 2. Of Thee I sing overture / (Buffalo Philharmonic) (4:38)
They all laughed / (Tony Bennett) (2:44)
Of Thee I sing / (Hi-Lo's) (2:40)
Promenade (Walking the dog) / (Los Angeles Philharmonic) (2:54)
I've got a crush on you / (Ella Fitzgerald) (2:17)
Somebody loves me / (Alberta Hunter) (2:54)
Love walked in ; Embraceable you / (Maureen McGovern) (4:09)
Mine / (Dick Hyman) (2:57)
Isn't it a pity / (Mel Tormé) (3:09)
Introduction ; Jazzbo Brown / (André Kostelanetz and his orchestra) (3:02)
It ain't necessarily so / (Aretha Franklin) (3:07)
Bess, you is my woman now / (Robert McFerrin, Adele Addison) (5:12)
I loves you, Porgy / (Miles Davis) (3:40)
My man's gone now / (Sarah Vaughan) (5:42)
There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York / (Cab Calloway) (2:17)
Who cares? / (Tony Bennett) (3:17)
Rhapsody in blue / (George Gershwin) (13:43)
Strike up the band / (André Kostelanetz and his orchestra) (2:41)
Home blues / (Michael Feinstein) (3:51)

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Addison, Adele
Astaire, Fred
Bennett, Tony, 1926-2023
Buck and Bubbles
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
Clark, Buddy, 1911-1949
Clooney, Rosemary
Davis, Miles
Day, Doris, 1922-2019
Feinstein, Michael
Fitzgerald, Ella
Franklin, Aretha
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996
Guétary, Georges
Hi-Lo's (Musical group)
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
Hunter, Alberta
Hyman, Dick, 1927-
James, Harry, 1916-1983
Jolson, Al, 1886-1950
Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996
Kirsten, Dorothy, 1910-1992
Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980
Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
McFerrin, Robert, 1921-2006
McGovern, Maureen
Russell, Jane, 1921-2011
Sanders, Felicia
Shore, Dinah, 1917-1994
Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998
Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987
Tormé, Mel, 1925-1999
Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977