'S Wonderful: The Great Gershwin Decca Songbook (1998)

About this title: In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, no one had a more symbiotic relationship than Decca Records did with the music of George Gershwin. Gershwin's songs were the perfect interpretive fodder for the company's wide variety of pop and jazz artists, and with Decca's stronghold on the market (along with Columbia and RCA Victor), a lot of those tunes passed from pop hits into standard evergreens in their hands. This 20-track collection brings together some of the very best, ranging in interpretations from jazz folks like Jimmy Dorsey ("Embraceable You"), Louis Armstrong ("Love Walked In"), Connie Boswell ( ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Got Rhythm [Gershwin/Gershwin]
2. But Not for Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
3. Embraceable You [Gershwin/Gershwin]
4. Love Walked In [Gershwin/Gershwin]
5. Soon [Gershwin/Gershwin]
6. I Loves You, Porgy [Gershwin/Gershwin]
7. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) [Gershwin/Gershwin]
8. Nice Work If You Can Get It [Gershwin/Gershwin]
9. For You, For Me, For Evermore [Gershwin/Gershwin]
10. Somebody Loves Me [DeSylva/Gershwin/Ma]
11. Love Is Here to Stay [Gershwin/Gershwin]
12. My One and Only [Gershwin/Gershwin]
13. He Loves and She Loves [Gershwin/Gershwin]
14. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' [Gershwin/Gershwin]
15. 'S Wonderful [Gershwin/Gershwin]
16. Someone to Watch over Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
17. They All Laughed [Gershwin/Gershwin]
18. Isn't It a Pity? [Gershwin/Gershwin]
19. That Certain Feeling [Gershwin/Gershwin]
20. They Can't Take That Away from Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.