As Time Goes By (2000)

About this title: This compilation was assembled by the British budget label Prism Leisure, taking advantage of the 50-year copyright limit on recordings in Europe to transfer old records onto a CD without the bother of paying the original copyright holders for licensing. (In the U.S., the tracks remain in copyright, yet this import was readily available domestically upon release.) A couple of big Tony Martin hits lead things off; both "Rumors Are Flying" and "To Each His Own" reached the Top Ten for him. But the rest of the disc focuses on the singer's interpretations of well-known songs instead of his ... read more

Tracks:

1. Rumors Are Flying [Benjamin/Weiss]
2. To Each His Own [Livingston/Evans]
3. That Old Black Magic [Arlen/Mercer]
4. Make Believe [Kern/Hammerstein]
5. Why Do I Love You? [Kern/Hammerstein]
6. Cancel the Flowers [Seiler/Benjamin/Mar]
7. The Donkey Serenade [Forrest/Friml/Stoth]
8. Too Beautiful to Last [Symes/Lowe]
9. Tea for Two [Youmans/Caesar]
10. As Time Goes By [Hupfield]
11. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) [Ahlert/Turk]
12. You Couldn't Be Cuter [Kern/Fields]
13. Now It Can Be Told [Berlin]
14. Guilty [Akst/Kahn/Whiting]
15. All the Things You Are [Kern/Hammerstein]
16. A Gal in Calico [Schwartz/Robin]
17. Stardust [Carmichael/Parish]
18. Body and Soul [Eyton/Green/Heyman/]
19. I Kiss Your Hand, Madame [Young/Lewis/Erwin]
20. And Then It's Heaven [Marcus/Kaufman/Seil]
21. Flamingo [Anderson/Grouya]
22. You're Slightly Terrific [Pollack/Mitchell]
23. You Stepped Out of a Dream [Brown/Kahn]
24. The Last Time I Saw Paris [Kern/Hammerstein]

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