George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood
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Composer or Director: George Gershwin, (composers) Various
Label: Premier
Magazine Review Date: 1/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 152
Catalogue Number: CDODEON29
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Rhapsody in Blue, Movement: Overture |
George Gershwin, Composer
Al Jolson, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Leo F. Forbstein, Conductor Original Film Cast Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Rhapsody in Blue, Movement: Swanee |
George Gershwin, Composer
Al Jolson, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Leo F. Forbstein, Conductor Original Film Cast Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Rhapsody in Blue, Movement: 135th Street Blues (Blue Monday) |
George Gershwin, Composer
Al Jolson, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Leo F. Forbstein, Conductor Original Film Cast Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Rhapsody in Blue, Movement: Summertime |
George Gershwin, Composer
Al Jolson, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Leo F. Forbstein, Conductor Original Film Cast Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Rhapsody in Blue, Movement: Delishious |
George Gershwin, Composer
Al Jolson, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Leo F. Forbstein, Conductor Original Film Cast Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Broadway Rhythm |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer Johnny Green, Conductor Lena Horne, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| (A) Damsel in Distress, Movement: A Foggy Day |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra Victor Baravelle, Conductor |
| (A) Damsel in Distress, Movement: I can't be bothered now |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra Victor Baravelle, Conductor |
| (A) Damsel in Distress, Movement: Nice work if you can get it |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra Victor Baravelle, Conductor |
| (A) Damsel in Distress, Movement: Things are looking up |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra Victor Baravelle, Conductor |
| (An) American in Paris, Movement: Love is Here to Stay |
George Gershwin, Composer
Gene Kelly, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Georges Guetary, Singer Johnny Green, Conductor MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| (An) American in Paris, Movement: I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise |
George Gershwin, Composer
Gene Kelly, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Georges Guetary, Singer Johnny Green, Conductor MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| (An) American in Paris, Movement: I've Got a Crush on You |
George Gershwin, Composer
Gene Kelly, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Georges Guetary, Singer Johnny Green, Conductor MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: Beginner's luck |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: Let's call the whole thing off |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: Shall we dance? |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: Slap that bass |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: They all laughed |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: They can't take that away from me |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Shall we dance?, Movement: Promenade |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Ginger Rogers, Singer Nathaniel Shilkret, Conductor Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Girl Crazy, Movement: Treat Me Rough |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
| Girl Crazy, Movement: Embraceable You |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
| Girl Crazy, Movement: Boy! What Love Has Done to Me! |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
| Girl Crazy, Movement: I Got Rhythm |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
| But Not for Me |
George Gershwin, Composer
Ella Fitzgerald, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Nelson Riddle, Conductor Original Film Cast |
| Ziegfeld Follies, Movement: Liza: All the Clouds Roll Away - Outtake (Gershwin |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Avon Long, Tenor Lennie Hayton, Conductor MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| Strike Up the Band |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
| (The) Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Movement: Aren't you kind of glad we did? |
George Gershwin, Composer
20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra Alfred Newman, Conductor Betty Grable, Singer Dick Haymes, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast |
| (The) Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Movement: For you, for me, for evermore |
George Gershwin, Composer
20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra Alfred Newman, Conductor Betty Grable, Singer Dick Haymes, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast |
| (The) Man I Love |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast Peg La Centra, Singer Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra |
| Girl Crazy |
George Gershwin, Composer
Dixie Lee, Singer Eddie Quillan, Singer George Gershwin, Composer Mitzi Green, Singer Original Film Cast RKO Radio Studio Orchestra |
| Artie Shaw's Symphony in Swing |
George Gershwin, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra Artie Shaw, Conductor George Gershwin, Composer |
| Funny Face |
George Gershwin, Composer
Adolph Deutsch, Conductor Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast Paramount Studio Orchestra |
| Goldwyn Follies, Movement: I was doing all right |
George Gershwin, Composer
Alfred Newman, Conductor George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast Samuel Goldwyn Studio Orchestra |
| Goldwyn Follies, Movement: Love walked in |
George Gershwin, Composer
Alfred Newman, Conductor George Gershwin, Composer Original Film Cast Samuel Goldwyn Studio Orchestra |
| (The) Barkleys of Broadway |
George Gershwin, Composer
Fred Astaire, Vocalist/voice George Gershwin, Composer Lennie Hayton, Conductor MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
| Give a Girl a Break |
George Gershwin, Composer
André Previn, Conductor Bob Fosse, Singer George Gershwin, Composer MGM Studio Orchestra Original Film Cast |
Composer or Director: George Gershwin
Label: Premier
Magazine Review Date: 1/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Catalogue Number: CDODEON30
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Girl Crazy |
George Gershwin, Composer
George Gershwin, Composer George Stoll, Conductor Judy Garland, Singer MGM Studio Chorus MGM Studio Orchestra Mickey Rooney, Singer Original Film Cast |
Author:
It’s hard to imagine a more joyous way to celebrate the Gershwin centenary than with these discs, packed with a treasure-trove of performance and booklet-note documentation that are models of authority and expertise.
“George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood” includes some very rare key performances drawn from all the Hollywood studios where a Gershwin credit rolled. Included are Dick Haymes and Betty Grable in charming performances of two duets from Gershwin’s posthumous score,The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), Astaire in “He loves and she loves” from Funny Face (1957) – produced at Paramount 20 years after the composer’s death and 30 years after the show’s Broadway premiere – and a heady mixture of numbers from the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), that begins with a ten-minute “Overture” orchestrated and conducted by Ray Heindorf. Also from Rhapsody are “135th Street blues”, a quasi-operatic number and prototype for such pop ephemera as “Tenement Symphony”; a magnificently sung “Summertime” from Anne Brown, the original Bess in Porgy and Bess; Al Jolson recreating “Swanee”, Gershwin’s first hit song; and the title-song of Delicious, an early Fox musical that brought the Gershwin brothers to Hollywood in 1931 – its subsequent box office failure kept them away for five years until they returned to write a collection of classic scores for Astaire and Rogers at RKO. Though Astaire came to be known as every songwriter’s favourite singer, he and Rogers share the vocal honours in an effervescent account of “Let’s call the whole thing off” from Shall We Dance (1937). Ira without George is represented by Astaire singing “You’d be hard to replace” from The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), where the inclusion of the verse makes a much stronger case for Harry Warren’s melody, and “In our United State” from Give a Girl a Break (1953), where a young Bob Fosse sings and hoofs to Burton Lane’s melody.
Both albums contain brilliantly executed big band performances, with Artie Shaw and his orchestra letting their hair down in “Oh lady be good” from the Warner Bros shortArtie Shaw’s Symphony in Swing (1939), and Tommy Dorsey with arrangers Sy Oliver and Axel Stordahl contributing greatly to the success of the 1943 remake of Girl Crazy, a soundtrack that contains much more of the original 1930 Broadway score (familiar from Crazy for You) than one might expect. In this, the fourth of the Garland/Rooney pictures produced by Arthur Freed, both stars are on top form in a brilliantly lit and full-bodied CD transfer enriched with vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and orchestrations by Conrad Salinger. No expense seems to have been spared bringing out these discs, and surely no one can quibble at the full price asked. AE
“George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood” includes some very rare key performances drawn from all the Hollywood studios where a Gershwin credit rolled. Included are Dick Haymes and Betty Grable in charming performances of two duets from Gershwin’s posthumous score,
Both albums contain brilliantly executed big band performances, with Artie Shaw and his orchestra letting their hair down in “Oh lady be good” from the Warner Bros short
George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood
Gershwin Girl Crazy-film score
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