This 50-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings of many of their best-known songs by various artists

Acrobat has products on catalogue which present the classic songs of composers indelibly associated with the Great American Songbook, notably George Gershwin and Cole Porter, and this collection continues that series by bringing together the hit compositions of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, who worked together from the early 1920s through to Hart's sad demise in 1943. This 50-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings of many of their best-known songs by various artists - in some cases they are the original hit versions from the time the song was first featured in a stage musical or movie, as most of their most famous songs were, or recorded later, either as singles or on albums. In the early LP era in the 1950s artists would often record concept albums based around particular songwriters or concepts, and several did LPs of Rodgers & Hart songs. Artists who were fine interpreters of the duo's compositions, and are featured here, include Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee, and there are many others from across the years. With songs like 'My Funny Valentine', 'Blue Moon', 'The Lady Is A Tramp', 'Bewitched', 'Lover', 'Mountain Greenery', 'Where Or When', their partnership produced some of the most atmospheric songs of the era, and this blend of original hit recordings and later interpretations of their work makes for a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining collection.

Track Listing

• Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan
• Ben Selvin & His Orchestra (as The Knickerbockers) - Sentimental Me
• Don Cherry - Here In My Arms
• George Olsen - The Girl Friend
• Perry Como - The Blue Room
• Mel Torme - Mountain Greenery
• Helen Morgan - A Tree In The Park
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Where's That Rainbow
• Evelyn Knight - A Little Birdie Told Me So
• Lee Wiley - My Heart Stood Still
• Blossom Dearie - Thou Swell
• Vaughn De Leath & Irving Kaufman - Do I Hear You Saying I Love You
• Carmen McRae - You Took Advantage Of Me
• Leo Reisman - With A Song In My Heart
• Lee Wiley - Baby's Awake Now
• Sarah Vaughan - A Ship Without A Sail
• Ruth Etting - Ten Cents A Dance
• Chris Connor - He Was Too Good To Me
• Lee Wiley - I've Got Five Dollars
• Peggy Lee - Dancing On The Ceiling
• Jeri Southern - Isn't It Romantic
• Maurice Cjhevalier - Mimi
• Peggy Lee - Lover
• Billy Eckstine - Blue Moon

• Guy Lombardo - Down By The River
• Bing Crosby - It's Easy To Remember
• Bing Crosby - Soon
• Vic Damone - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
• Nancy Wilson - Little Girl Blue
• Judy Garland & Frank Sinatra - My Romance
• Ruby Newman - On Your Toes
• Peggy Lee - There's A Small Hotel
• Lena Horne - Glad To Be Unhappy
• Anita O'Day - Johnny One Note
• Frank Sinatra - The Lady Is A Tramp
• Hal Kemp - Where Or When
• Sarah Vaughan - My Funny Valentine
• Judy Garland - I Wish I Were In Love Again
• Frank Sinatra - Have You Met Miss Jones
• Larry Clinton & His Orchestra - I Married An Angel
• Buddy Clark - Spring Is Here
• Frances Langford - Falling In Love With Love
• Nat King Cole - This Can't Be Love
• Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
• Doris Day - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
• Anita O'Day - I Could Write A Book
• Julie London - It Never Entered My Mind
• Annie Ross - Everything I've Got Belongs To You
• Doris Day/Andre Previn - Wait Till You See Him
• Ella Fitzgerald - To Keep My Love Alive

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Run Time: 142 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/09/24

UPC: 824046352127