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Today's Great American Songbook Playlist

June Christy

Here's a collection of 35 June Christy songs. Many of them have been "cleaned up" a bit excessively, unfortunately.

http://www.archive.org/details/JuneChristy-01-35

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Great Thread Chicks! Thanks for starting it.

The Album that got me started on these great songs and still a favorite......

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Stardust

Willie Nelson

1978 Columbia Records

Stardust is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson, consisting entirely of pop standards. A reissue was made in 1999, with two previously unreleased tracks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 257 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album stayed on the Billboard Country Album charts from the time of its release in 1978 until 1988. This album was also number one on New Zealand Singles Chart (for six weekes). It has sold 8 million copies world-wide.

1. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 3:53
2. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 4:20
3. "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin) – 3:34
4. "All of Me", (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) – 3:54
5. "Unchained Melody" (Hy Zaret, Alex North) – 3:50
6. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 4:35
7. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:36
8. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:25
9. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
10. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:03

Bonus tracks on the 2008 anniversary CD edition:

1. "What a Wonderful World" (George David Weiss and Bob Thiele)
2. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams)
3. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (D. Dougherty, E. Reynolds and A. Neiburg)
4. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young)
5. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid)
6. "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
7. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
8. "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Hoagy Carmichael and J. Brooks)
9. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Haven Gillespie and Beasley Smith)
10. "Little Things Mean a Lot" (E. Calisch and C. Stutz)
11. "Cry" (Churchill Kohlman)
12. "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon and Harry Warren)
13. "Tenderly" (Jack Lawrence and Walter Lloyd Gross)
14. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler)
15. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
16. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent and Matt Dennis)
 
Dennie said:
Stardust is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson, consisting entirely of pop standards.
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I do have that LP, doesn't get as much playtime as it deserves. Gotta love Willie, he does know (and write) great songs! Really enjoyed the replay of his appearance on Piano Jazz a couple weeks ago.
 
Now, I don't have "A" favorite album. There are just to many great albums to have just "one" favorite.

But, this one ranks right up there with the best of them....
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Ella and Louis

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

1956 Verve Records (Mono)
What we have here is the mating of honey and molasses. Or is it the sound of melted butter over gravel? Never mind--sweeter, more joyous music has never been recorded (although the follow-up, Ella and Louis Again, may be even better). You can't listen to these two without smiling. It's such an inevitable pairing that you wonder what titanic forces of nature could have kept Ella and Satchmo apart until they made this record together in 1957, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Buddy Rich on drums. The songs are standards--extraordinary standards, of course, like "Moonlight in Vermont" and "A Foggy Day"--but nirvana is reached on "Cheek to Cheek." Heaven. --Jim Emerson

1. “Can't We Be Friends?” (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:45
2. “Isn't This a Lovely Day?” (Irving Berlin) – 6:14
3. “Moonlight in Vermont” (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:40
4. “They Can't Take That Away from Me” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:36
5. “Under a Blanket of Blue” (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 4:16
6. “Tenderly” (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 5:05
7. “A Foggy Day” (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:31
8. “Stars Fell on Alabama” (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 3:32
9. “Cheek to Cheek” (Berlin) – 5:52
10. “The Nearness of You” (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 5:40
11. “April in Paris” (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 6:33

Capitol Tower, Hollywood, August 16, 1956 Val Valentin (eng)

* Louis Armstrong - vocals, trumpet
* Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
* Ray Brown - bass
* Herb Ellis - guitar
* Oscar Peterson - piano
* Buddy Rich - drums
 
Dennie said:
Now, I don't have "A" favorite album. There are just to many great albums to have just "one" favorite.

But, this one ranks right up there with the best of them....
Ella and Louis
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A favorite of mine, too. Unfortunately my only LP is unplayable, so I listen to the CD version. The LP occupies the central position on the LP wall.
 
chicks said:
A favorite of mine, too. Unfortunately my only LP is unplayable, so I listen to the CD version. The LP occupies the central position on the LP wall.
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It is one of my favorite Album Covers and I display my copy also. It is a great picture of the two of them.

I was browsing my new "Music Direct" catalog and saw the 45rpm Lp version and the SACD. I think I'll pick up the SACD (I also have the CD) and compare it to this beautiful Mono version I have. It has a few pops and clicks, but plays great and the sound is Rich and full, just absolutely stunning.

Dennie
 
I didn't expect this to be as good as it is...... :thmbsp:

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am I not your girl? CD

Sinead O'Connor

1992 Ensign Records

Swing Sister Swing, December 30, 2005
By Leafsfan2028 (magnolia, tx, usa)

This review is from: Am I Not Your Girl (Audio CD)

I had no idea what I was getting into when I purchased this CD. I was expecting more of the bitter, raw, politically driven music I have come to love. Boy was this a curve ball! But, behold, it is brilliant.

Sinead, in her oh so beautiful voice, provides a journey back to the swing era. Picture this fair lass in a smoky night club surrounded by a large band, playing music that congers up pictures of couples slow dancing, sipping scotch and wearing their Sunday best.

Ths CD offers a mix of slow and outright hoping tracks. I am thrilled I found this diamond in the rough.

1. "Why Don't You Do Right?" Joe McCoy 2:30
2. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers 6:15
3. "Secret Love" Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster 2:56
4. "Black Coffee" Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster 3:21
5. "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" Mullins 4:29
6. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice 5:39
7. "I Want to Be Loved by You" Bert Kalmar, Ruby, Herbert Stothart 2:45
8. "Gloomy Sunday" Laszio Javor, Sam L. Lewis, Rezső Seress 3:56
9. "Love Letters" Edward Heyman, Victor Young 3:07
10. "How Insensitive" Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim 3:28
11. "Scarlet Ribbons" Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal 4:14
12. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (instrumental) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice 5:10
Hidden track Personal message about pain (Jesus and the Money Changers) O'Connor 2:00
 
Damn Near Everyone
American Popular Song
Six Decades of Songwriters and Singers

Smithsonian / CBS (1984)

Fourteen sides of pristine vinyl, a nice reference guide, a decent setup, I'm good for the day :) Paid a buck for the vinyl set, BTW.

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Benny Carter
Songbook

Music Masters Jazz (1996)

Benny is joined by Dianne Reeves, Joe Williams, Kenny Rankin, Peggy Lee and other singers performing the songs he penned, some of which are standards, others debuting for this album.

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Carmen McRae, "Alone'

Live at the Dug,

Just Carmen accompanying herself on the piano.
Singing "singers songs"
My favorite Carmen Album
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Saratoga48 said:
Live at the Dug,

Just Carmen accompanying herself on the piano.
Singing "singers songs"
My favorite Carmen Album
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Yep, my favorite Carmen album, too. Very intimate. My pressing has some annoying "scraping" sounds, clearly manufacturing defects, in a few places, unfortunately, but it's very well recorded.

BTW, might want to keep the images down to 600X800. :D
 
chicks said:
Yep, my favorite Carmen album, too. Very intimate. My pressing has some annoying "scraping" sounds, clearly manufacturing defects, in a few places, unfortunately, but it's very well recorded.

BTW, might want to keep the images down to 600X800. :D
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Fortunately my copy is in great condition, this is a replacement for one I stupidly loaned out and never got back,
 
Nellie Lutcher, "Delightfully Yours"

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Sunset Records

The Nearness of You
My Heart Sings
Have You Ever Been Lonely
On the Sunny Side of the Street
You Made Me Love You
Rose Colored Glasses
Blue Skies
Three Little Words
This Can't Be Love
Someone To Watch Over Me
 
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Another way to listen to Sinatra, ultimately not as good as the Capitol theme albums, but at this level it hardly matters.

chicks said:
Damn Near Everyone
American Popular Song
Six Decades of Songwriters and Singers

Smithsonian / CBS (1984)

Fourteen sides of pristine vinyl, a nice reference guide, a decent setup, I'm good for the day :) Paid a buck for the vinyl set, BTW.

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First, you have my envy, only slightly offset by the fact that I got the big band set on pristine vinyl for a like amount.

Second, how's the standards book? I have the npr jazz book and think it's only so-so.



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