Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RD 107; DMC 4-1247.
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Program notes, bibliography, and index to performers (64 p. : ill. ; 29 x 14 cm.) laid in container.
Contents:
v. 1, Gershwin and the popular song. Somebody loves me (Aileen Stanley) ; Funny face (Johnny Marvin) ; I got rhythm (Ethel Waters) ; Bidin' my time (the Blue Jeans) ; Sam and Delilah (Chick Bullock, Duke Ellington) ; Nice work if you can get it (Maxine Sullivan) ; Who cares? (Fred Astaire) ; But not for me (Helen Forrest, Harry James) ; The man I love (Lena Horne) ; Embraceable you (Jo Stafford, Pied Pipers, Tommy Dorsey) ; Mine (Bing Crosby, Judy Garland) ; Someone to watch over me (Lee Wiley) ; Aren't ya kinda glad we did? (Vaughan Monroe, Betty Norton) ; Love walked in (Teddi King) ; Isn't it a pity? (Sarah Vaughan) ; I love you, Porgy (Diahann Carroll) ; How long has this been going on? (Dinah Shore) ; Love is here to stay (Tony Bennett) ; Boy! what love has done to me! (Nancy Walker) ; I don't think I'll fall in love today (Max Morath, Joan Morris) ; Do it again (Marti Webb) ; I've got a crush on you (Linda Ronstadt) -- v. 2, Gershwin on stage and screen. I won't say I will (Irene Bordoni) ; Boy wanted (Heather Thatcher) ; Fascinating rhythm (Cliff Edwards) ; Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta) ; Someone to watch over me (Gertrude Lawrence) ; Funny face (Fred and Adele Astaire) ; Of thee I sing. Overture (NBC Radio Orchestra) ; My cousin in Milwaukee (Lyda Roberti) ; Prelude and Summertime (Abbie Mitchell) ; The buzzard song (Lawrence Tibbett) ; I got plenty o' nuttin' (Todd Duncan) ; Let's call the whole thing off (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) ; I was doing all right (Ella Logan) ; Could you use me (Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney) ; Swanee (Al Jolson) ; They can't take that away from me (Fred Astaire) ; I'll build a stairway to paradise (George Guetary) ; 'S wonderful (Gene Kelly, George Guetary) ; It ain't necessarily so (John W. Bubbles) ; Bess, you is my woman now (William Warfield, Leontyne Price) ; Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way (Donnie Ray Albert) ; I got rhythm (Jodi Benson) -- v. 3, Gershwin in the concert hall. Rhapsody in blue (George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman) ; Prelude #1 ; Prelude #2 ; Prelude #3 ; Andante from Rhapsody in blue (George Gershwin) ; An American in Paris (Victor Symphony Orchestra) ; Variations on "I got rhythm" (George Gershwin) ; Second rhapsody for piano and orchestra (Leonard Pennario, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra) ; Lullaby for string quartet (Juilliard String Quartet) -- v. 4, Gershwin and jazz. I got rhythm (Don Redman and his orchestra) ; Liza (Jimmie Noone and his orchestra) ; Summertime (Billie Holiday) ; Lady, be good! (Jones-Smith, Inc.) ; Somebody loves me (Benny Goodman and his orchestra) ; 'S wonderful (Benny Goodman Quartet) ; I'll build a stairway to paradise (Johnny Williams and his Swing Sextet) ; The man I love (Artie Shaw and his orchestra) ; Somebody loves me (Jack Teagarden, Eddie Condon) ; The man I love (Billie Holiday) ; Love walked in (Chet Baker) ; But not for me (Erroll Garner) ; They all laughed (Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald) ; My man's gone now (Miles Davis, Gil Evans) ; A foggy day (Buddy DeFranco, Art Tatum) ; Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess? (Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Potts) ; Summertime (Shelly Manne and his Men) ; The man I love (Milt Jackson, Joe Pass)
