Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin

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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
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Studio album by
Rosemary Clooney
ReleasedOctober 1979
Recorded1979
Genre Vocal jazz
Length42:11
Label Concord
Producer John Burk
Rosemary Clooney chronology
Here's to My Lady
(1978)		Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
(1979)		 With Love
(1980)
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Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin is a 1979 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. [2]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Rosemary Clooney singer and actress from the United States

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.

Ira Gershwin American lyricist

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "But Not for Me" – 5:47
  2. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 2:58
  3. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" – 4:58
  4. "Fascinating Rhythm" – 2:56
  5. "Love Is Here to Stay" – 3:48
  6. "Strike Up the Band" – 3:46
  7. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern) – 4:24
  8. "They All Laughed" – 4:05
  9. "The Man that Got Away" (Harold Arlen) – 6:00
  10. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 3:29

All lyrics by Ira Gershwin, all music by George Gershwin, other composers noted.

George Gershwin American composer and pianist

George Jacob Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris, the songs Swanee (1919) and Fascinating Rhythm (1924), the jazz standard I Got Rhythm (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) which spawned the hit Summertime.

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Scott Hamilton (musician) American musician

Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing and mainstream jazz.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Crossland, Ken (2013). Late Life Jazz: The Life and Career of Rosemary Clooney. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 202. ISBN   978-0-19-979857-5.
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