This 4-CD box set contains 70 songs from composer George Gershwin and other famous songwriters from his era. An interesting mix that features over 60 performers such as Gershwin himself, Perry Como, Henry Mancini, Kate Smith, Carmen Cavallaro, Glenn Miller, Liberace, Mario Lanza, Peggy Lee, Al Hirt, Judy Garland, Al Jolson, Julie Andrews, Bob Hope, Arthur Fieldler’s Boston Pops and many others!

CONDITION: Gently used.
CDs are clean and are guaranteed to play with no skips
Jewel case has a small chip out of one spine, but otherwise in good shape.
Booklets is in very good shape. (See scans above).

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This is a great retrospective of the songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s with music that defined that time. Some great vocalists and arrangements here. See the complete tracklist below...

The Gershwin Years
4 CDs – 70 tracks
Reader’s Digest Music - 2001

CD #1:
Embraceable You – Bing Crosby
'S Wonderful – Kate Smith
Love Is Here to Stay – Nat King Cole
Someone to Watch Over Me – Helen Forrest
A Foggy Day – Fred Astaire
Nice Work if You Can Get It – Dinah Shore
The Can't Take That Away from Me – Perry Como
But Not for Me – Rosemary Clooney
He Loves and She Loves – Fred Astaire
Somebody Loves Me – Peggy Lee
They All Laughed – Bing Crosby
I've Got a Crush on You – Ella Fitzgerald
How Long Has This Been Going On? – Judy Garland
Do-Do-Do – Julie Andrews
Bidin' My Time – Margaret Whiting
That Certain Feeling – Bob Hope
Fascinatin' Rhythm – The Hi-Los
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

CD #2
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – Les Brown
Skylark – Harry James
Oh, Lady Be Good – The Benny Goodman Quartet
Stardust – Glenn Miller and his Army Air Force Band
Lovely to Look At – Eddy Duchin
Blue Moon – Billy Butterfield
It's De-Lovely – Carmen Cavallaro
Love Walked In – Sammy Kaye
I Got Rhythm – Jimmy Dorsey
My Heart Belongs to Daddy – Glenn Miller / Marion Hutton
I Can't Get Started (with you) - Al Hirt
'S Wonderful / A Foggy Day / Soon – Skitch Henderson
Tea for Two – Frank Horrox
Easy to Love – Gordon Langford
Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) – Marty Paich
Deep Purple – Jim Tyler
The Man I Love – Johnny Guarnieri
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – Henry Mancini
Swanee – Marty Paich
I'll Be Seeing You - Liberace
Someone to Watch Over Me – Ronnie Price

CD #3:
Begin the Beguine – Norman Luboff
My Romance – Mario Lanza
I Only Have Eyes for You – Margaret Whiting
Without a Song – Ed Ames
The Way You Look Tonight – The Romantic Voices
Why Do I Love You? – London Promenade Orchestra
Deep in My Heart, Dear – Jeannette Scovotti
Of Thee I Sing - Robert Mandell
Over The Rainbow – Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers
Lullaby of Broadway – The Tophatters
My One and Only – Fred Astaire
Look for the Silver Lining – The John Norman Chorale
Wonderful One – The Boston Pops w/ Arthur Fieldler
All the Things You Are – The New York Pops w/ Skitch Henderson
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) – The Romantic Strings Orchestra
Night and Day – Ed Ames
September Song - Hildegarde
Always – Gordon MacRae

CD #4:
Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Variations on "I Got Rhythm" – National Philharmonic Orchestra
Theme from Prelude No. 2 – The London Promenade Orchestra
An American in Paris – National Philharmonic Orchestra
SONGS FROM PORGY & BESS
Prelude and Summertime – Anna Moffo
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing – Andrew Frierson
It Ain't Necessarily So – Avon Long
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin – Valentine Pringle
Bess, You Is My Woman Now – Valentine Pringle
My Man's Gone Now – Billie Daniels
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York – Avon Long
Oh Lawd, Im on My Way – Valentine Pringle

Just add a living room easy-chair and your favorite stiff cocktail and you’ll have quite an amazing night in front of you listening to this amazing set.

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