Ben Bagley's George Gershwin Revisited
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| # | Track | Artist/Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | There is More to the Kiss Than the XXX | Barbara Cook, Anthony Perkins, Elaine Stritch, Bobby Short | |
| 2. | Under a One-Man Top | Anthony Perkins, Barbara Cook | |
| 3. | Feeling Sentimental | Elaine Stritch | |
| 4. | Tra-La-La | Barbara Cook, Bobby Short, Anthony Perkins | |
| 5. | Nashville Nightingale | Bobby Short | |
| 6. | Drifting Along with the Tide | Anthony Perkins, Barbara Cook | |
| 7. | Virginia Don’t Go too Far | Anthony Perkins, Bobby Short, Elaine Stritch | |
| 8. | Back Bay Polka | Anthony Perkins, Bobby Short, Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch | |
| 9. | Changing My Tune | Anthony Perkins, Barbara Cook | |
| 10. | Rose of Madrid | Bobby Short, Elaine Stritch | |
| 11. | Oh Gee! Oh Joy! | Bobby Short | |
| 12. | Three Times a Day | Anthony Perkins | |
| 13. | Scandal Walk | Anthony Perkins, Bobby Short, Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch | |
| 14. | Concerto in F (first recording | 1928) Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, Roy Bargy, piano (Bonus Track) |
Ben Bagley's George Gershwin Revisited
Added on Wednesday, May 01, 2019
his delectable album has one of Ben Bagley’s best casts – smaller than usual but nothing but star power: Barbara Cook, Anthony Perkins, Bobby Short, and Elaine Stritch, all having their way with the brilliant music of George Gershwin. As with all the Revisiteds, the point isn’t to do the hits, the point is to do lesser known material and this album has plenty of it. Culling material from such shows as La La Lucille, Sweet Little Devil, Niceties of 1923, Tell Me More, and other such obscurities. The musical direction and arrangements are by Norman Paris.
As we have with all the releases, we have considerably spruced up the sound. This is one of the handful of Bagley-released CDs that didn’t have bonus material added, so it has a fairly short run time of about forty-six minutes. But we’ve added a real treat – the first recording of the Gershwin’s amazing Concerto in F, in its original Ferde Grofe orchestration, recorded in 1928 by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra with Roy Bargy on piano. Our mastering engineer, James Nelson, has made this sound surprisingly good and it’s really fascinating to hear how this was originally done prior to the filled-out version everyone knows today. Of course, we feature the great Harvey Schmidt art.