George Gershwin (8CD Boxset)

Disc 1: 01. Variations on Fascinating Rhythm/Variations on Liza 02. Second Prelude 03. Interview 04. I Got Rhythm 05. Signature 06. Of Thee I Sing (Overture) 07. Man I Love 08. I Got Rhythm 09. Commercial 10. Swanee/Sign-Off 11. Signature 12. Mine 13. Variations on "I Got Rhythm" 14. Love Is Sweeping the Country 15. Commercial 16. Wintergreen for President/Sign-Off 17. Introduction/Summertime 18. Woman Is a Sometime Thing 19. Act I, Scene 1: Finale 20. My Man's Gone Now 21. Bess, You Is My Woman Now Disc 2: 01. Rhapsody in Blue 02. Prelude, No. 1 03. Prelude, No. 2 04. Prelude, No. 3 05. Andante from Rhapsody in Blue 06. American in Paris 07. Second Rhapsody Rehearsal Performance Disc 3: 01. Embraceable You 02. Boy! Look What Love Has Done to Me [Extended Version] 03. Treat Me Rough [Extended Version] 04. I Got Rhythm 05. Could You Use Me? 06. Ouverture Medley: Swanee/Somebody Loves Me/Fascinating Rhythm/Embr ... 07. Swanee 08. 135th Street Blues (Blue Monday) 09. Summertime [Extended Version] 10. Delishious [Extended Version] 11. Third Prelude [Outtake] Disc 4: 01. Slap That Bass 02. (I've Got) Beginner's Luck 03. They All Laughed [With Extended Chorus] 04. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 05. They Can't Take That Away from Me 06. Promenade (Walking the Dog) 07. Shall We Dance? 08. Foggy Day 09. Nice Work If You Can Get It 10. Things Are Looking Up 11. I Was Doing All Right [The Goldwyn Follies] 12. Oh, Lady Be Good Disc 5: 01. Somebody Loves Me [Broadway Rhythm] 02. Babbitt and the Bromide [Ziegfeld Follies of '46] 03. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) 04. Opening Music/Sweet Packard [The Shocking Miss Pilgrim] 05. Changing My Tune 06. Stand Up and Fight 07. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? 08. Changing My Tune (Reprise) 09. Back Bay Polka (But Not in Boston) 10. One, Two, Three/Waltzing Is Better Sitting Down/Waltz Me No Waltzes 11. For You, For Me, For Evermore 12. For You, For Me, For Evermore (Reprise) 13. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did? (Finale) Disc 6: 01. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise 02. Nashville Nightengale [Musical Nifties] 03. I Won't Say I Will (But I Won't Say I Won't) [The Frence Doll] 04. Clap 'Yo Hands 05. Do, Do, Do 06. Someone to Watch Over Me 07. Fascinating Rhythm [Lady, Be Good!] 08. Oh, Lady Be Good [From Lady Be Good] 09. Funny Face 10. That Certain Feeling [Tip Toes] 11. Looking for a Boy 12. Sweet and Low-Down Disc 7: 01. Liza [From "Show Girl"] 02. Sam and Delilah 03. My Cousin in Milwaukee 04. Let 'Em Eat Cake [Let' Em Eat Cake] 05. Overture from of Thee I Sing 06. Who Cares? [Of Thee I Sing] 07. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' Disc 8: 01. Somebody Loves Me [George White's Scandals of 1924] 02. Who Cares? [Of Thee I Sing] 03. Embraceable You 04. But Not for Me 05. Mine [Let 'Em Eat Cake] 06. Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?

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 nightissuchproximity (2010-10-02)

mp3 320kbps
description did not fully upload sorry

daba_1 (2010-10-02)

In a career tragically cut short in mid-stride by a brain tumor, George Gershwin (1898-1937) proved himself to be not only one of the great songwriters of his extremely rich era, but also a gifted "serious" composer who bridged the worlds of classical and popular music. The latter is all the more striking, given that, of his contemporaries, Gershwin was the most influenced by such styles as jazz and blues.
Gershwin's first major hit, interpolated into the show Sinbad in 1919, was "Swanee," sung by Al Jolson. Gershwin wrote both complete scores and songs for such variety shoes as George White's Scandals (whose annual editions thus were able to introduce such songs as "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" and "Somebody Loves Me").
After 1924, Gershwin worked primarily with his brother Ira as his lyricist. The two scored a series of Broadway hits in the '20s and early '30s, starting with Lady Be Good (1924), which included the song "Fascinatin' Rhythm." 1924 was also the year Gershwin composed his first classical piece, "Rhapsody in Blue," and he would continue to work in the classical field until his death.
By the '30s, the Gershwins had turned to political topics and satire in response to the onset of the Depression, and their Of Thee I Sing became the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize. In the mid '30s, Gershwin ambitiously worked to meld his show music and classical leanings in the creation of the folk opera Porgy and Bess, with lyrics by Ira and Dubose Heyward. The Gershwins had moved to Hollywood and were engaged in several movie projects at the time of George Gershwin's death.

 nightissuchproximity (2010-10-02)

thanks, daba_1

FDNG (2010-11-22)

Bitrate is 320kbps, but quality is still quite poor. Full of hiss, cheap radio sound.

stagehand86 (2012-06-11)

@FDNG
You realize, of course, that these were recorded in the 1930s. State of the art in those times.
Thanks for the up! Wonderful stuff!

the_one_one (2015-04-19)

Unforgetable Gershwin! Thanks!