Songbook: Blues in the Night [Import]

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Album Description
Blues In The Night is part of the Great American Composers series comprised of the most famous American authors of songs and musical comedies. This disc features a selection of Johnny Mercer's most representative works along with comprehensive liner notes, a biography, tracklisting with comentaries about the history of each song and the performers of the different versions. A truely fascinating panorama of the American popular music painted by great jazz and jazzy players. Defini. 2005.

Songbook: Blues in the Night, Music, Johnny Mercer, Jazz, Vocal
Songbook: Blues in the Night
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    		Songbook: Blues in the Night
    Johnny Mercer
    Manufacturer: Definitive
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000A0BBXU
    Release Date: 2005-07-25

    Tracks:

    1. Blues In The Night
    2. Spring, Spring, Spring
    3. Autumn Leaves
    4. Laura
    5. That Old Black Magic
    6. Moon River
    7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
    8. And The Angels Sing
    9. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
    10. Charade
    11. If You Were Mine
    12. Goody Goody
    13. Jeepers Creepers
    14. Day In- Day Out
    15. Trav'lin Light
    16. Laura
    17. Too Marvelous For Words
    18. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
    19. Ridin' On The Moon
    20. One For My Baby
    21. P.S. I Love You
    22. I Thought About You
    23. I'm Old Fashioned
    24. Something's Gotta Give
    25. Blues In The Night

    Album Description

    Blues In The Night is part of the Great American Composers series comprised of the most famous American authors of songs and musical comedies. This disc features a selection of Johnny Mercer's most representative works along with comprehensive liner notes, a biography, tracklisting with comentaries about the history of each song and the performers of the different versions. A truely fascinating panorama of the American popular music painted by great jazz and jazzy players. Defini. 2005.
    Julie Wilson Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • An excellent exploration of Arlen
    • fascinating, multi layered performance, never boring
    		 Julie Wilson Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
    Harold Arlen , Julie Wilson , and William Roy
    Manufacturer: Drg
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000000PFE
    Release Date: 1992-06-30

    Tracks:

    1. Blues In The Night
    2. Fun To Be Fooled/This Time the Dreams On Me
    3. Buds Won't Bud/You're A Builder Upper/Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea..
    4. Last Night When WE Were Young
    5. One For My Baby/The Man That Got Away
    6. Lydia The Tatooed Lady
    7. Out Of This World/That Old Black Magic
    8. I've Got The World On A String
    9. Mianin' In The Mornin'/Down With Love
    10. A Sleepin' Bee
    11. It's only A Paper Moon
    12. Push De Button
    13. I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues/Stormy Weather/When The Sun Comes Out
    14. Stay Out Of My Dreams
    15. horray For Love/Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
    16. Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home, Come Rain Or Come Shine, I Had Myself A True Love

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars An excellent exploration of Arlen.......1999-07-20

    Julie Wilson offers another masterclass performance of songs by Harold Arlen with his numerous lyricists. Arlen's name is not as well known as some of his contemporaries, but his talents as a songwriter were magnificent. Julie Wilson and William Roy mine the Arlen songbook to produce an album of sterling quality, delivering delightful duets on such gems as 'Push De Button' and 'Lydia The Tattooed Lady'. Wilson offers brilliant readings of ballads and rhythm songs, capturing the mood and flavour of each song perfectly. Her sensuous take on 'Last Night When We Were Young' is particularly compelling. Roy's piano embellishments are, as ever, full of wit, sensitivity and formidable musicianship. A stunning offering.

    5 out of 5 stars fascinating, multi layered performance, never boring.......1999-03-15

    no matter how many time you listen to her, you'll hear something new each time. Julie Wilson is the consumate cabaret singer.
    Blues In The Night: The Johnny Mercer Songbook
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Magnificent selection!
    • IRRESISTIBLE COLLECTIVE BEST OF
    		 Blues In The Night: The Johnny Mercer Songbook
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Polygram Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000047GN
    Release Date: 1997-03-25

    Tracks:

    1. Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Louis Armstrong
    2. I Thought About You - Billie Holiday
    3. Come Rain Or Come Shine - Anita O'day
    4. Hit The Road To Dreamland - Mel Torme
    5. Dearly Beloved - Margaret Whiting
    6. Goody Goody - Buddy Rich
    7. Skylark - Ella Fitzgerald
    8. Laura - Billy Eckstine
    9. Day In-Day Out - Sarah Vaughan
    10. Early Autumn - Woody Herman
    11. I Remember You - Dinah Washington
    12. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Helen Merrill & Gil Evans
    13. Too Marvelous For Words - Joe Williams
    14. Autumn Leaves - Dee Dee Bridgewater
    15. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Billie Holiday
    16. Jeepers Creepers - Bing Crosby

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Magnificent selection!.......2005-02-23


    This album is a terrific set of real giants jazz musicians: Louis Armstrong with Blues in the night makes a splendid tour de force combining his grasping voice and his admirable trumpet. Billie Holiday shining as always with this theme loaded of suggested sensuality: I thought about you: Come rain or come shine with Anita Day is a very soft and charming melody. The sensational Margaret Whiting singing this swing melody: Dearly beloved. Buddy Rich with this theme that invites to dance Goody Goody a joyous piece in the great Decade of the Great Bands: 1936. Then we come to the famous piece Skylark with the incandescent voice of Ella Fitzgerald with Nelson Ridle's orchestra, one of the best selections of the CD. But if you are not convinced the session continues with Laura an everlasting melody immortalized by Errol Garner and Charlie Parker but this version of Billy Eckstine has its own charm and profile very appropriate for a romantic mood. Sarah Vaughn is the next guest with Day in-day out. Try to think in Diane Krall and please tell me if she is or not her major influence: Vaughn is simply divine in this rapture track. Woody Herman plays the classic theme Early autumn in a very warm version. Dinah Washington makes a impressive performance of I remember you ; Helen Merrill with the erotic and sensually suggestive Any place I hang my hat is home. Dee dee Bridgewater makes a very touching performance of the ultra beloved Autumn leaves: she offers the perfect balance between le chanson francaise and the purest rapture midnight jazz: that piano solo elaborates a slender cadenza that allows to link the second part of the melody. The incredible final is simply amazing and is without any shadow of doubt. But the best is yet to come when Billie Holiday sings One for my baby: that expressive voice that becomes in another instrument : she and his fellow partner: the great Ben Webster will involve you from the first bar. Bing Crosby finalizes this golden album with Jeepers Creepers.
    The question is how can you live without this album? I knew about this gem CD just today and I must recommend for all the hard fan jazz and far beyond because this compilation, literally overpasses its own time.

    A real treasure!



    5 out of 5 stars IRRESISTIBLE COLLECTIVE BEST OF.......2001-09-06

    Perfect collection for anyone who wants to get to know one of AMERICA's greatest songwriter.MERCER did everything in the music business:a singer,a co-founder of CAPITOL records in 1942,but mostly a great natured man from the friendly town of SAVANNAGH,GEORGIA.Virtually every singer from SINATRA to ROSEMARY CLOONEY has sung his songs that are easily recognizable.JOHNNY had a flair for writing lyrics to music like few people.It always seems so easy when you hear his songs .Isn't that the recipe for any writer of songs,to make them sound simple?This collection gives you a sample of MERCER's incredible production (more than a thousand tunes).

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