Name: With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart
Brand: ASV/Living Era
SKU: 923597
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With a Song in My Heart

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Album: With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Manhattan, song (used in film "Two Tickets to Broadway") - Ben Selvin
2)	Mountain Greenery, song (from "Garrick Gaieties" (1926)) - Frank Crumit/Jack Shilkret
3)	Girl Friend, song, The (from "The Girl Friend")
4)	Blue Room, song (from musical "The Girlfriend")
5)	My Heart Stood Still, song (from "A Connecticut Yankee") - Leslie A. Hutchinson/Jessie Matthews/Hutch
6)	Thou Swell, song (from "A Connecticut Yankee") - Ben Selvin
7)	You Took Advantage of Me, song (from "Present Arms")
8)	With a Song in My Heart, song (from musical "Spring Is Here") - Hutch
9)	Ten Cents a Dance, song (from "Simple Simon") - Ruth Etting
10)	Isn't It Romantic?, song (from film "Love Me Tonight") - Jeanette MacDonald
11)	Lover, song (from film "Love Me Tonight")
12)	You Are Too Beautiful, song (from film "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum") - Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra
13)	Blue Moon, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra
14)	It's Easy To Remember, song (from film "Mississippi") - Bing Crosby
15)	My Romance, song (from "Jumbo") - Dinah Shore/Frank Sinatra/Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra
16)	There's a Small Hotel, song (from "Jumbo") - Hal Kemp & His Orchestra
17)	Where or When, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Lena Horne/Lou Bring
18)	My Funny Valentine, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Mary Martin
19)	Johnny One Note, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Lynn Murray/Ruby Newman & His Orchestra/Wynn Murray
20)	Lady is a Tramp, song, The (from musical "Babes in Arms") - Harry Sosnik/Sophie Tucker
21)	Falling in Love with Love, song (from "The Boys from Syracuse") - Charles Previn/Allan Jones
22)	This Can't Be Love, song (from "The Boys From Syracuse") - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
23)	I Didn't Know What Time It Was, song (from "Too Many Girls") - Frank DeVol & His Orchestra/Margaret Whiting
24)	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, song (from "Pal Joey") - John Rarig/Doris Day/Mellomen

Album: With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Manhattan, song (used in film "Two Tickets to Broadway") - Ben Selvin
2)	Mountain Greenery, song (from "Garrick Gaieties" (1926)) - Frank Crumit/Jack Shilkret
3)	Girl Friend, song, The (from "The Girl Friend")
4)	Blue Room, song (from musical "The Girlfriend")
5)	My Heart Stood Still, song (from "A Connecticut Yankee") - Leslie A. Hutchinson/Jessie Matthews/Hutch
6)	Thou Swell, song (from "A Connecticut Yankee") - Ben Selvin
7)	You Took Advantage of Me, song (from "Present Arms")
8)	With a Song in My Heart, song (from musical "Spring Is Here") - Hutch
9)	Ten Cents a Dance, song (from "Simple Simon") - Ruth Etting
10)	Isn't It Romantic?, song (from film "Love Me Tonight") - Jeanette MacDonald
11)	Lover, song (from film "Love Me Tonight")
12)	You Are Too Beautiful, song (from film "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum") - Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra
13)	Blue Moon, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra
14)	It's Easy To Remember, song (from film "Mississippi") - Bing Crosby
15)	My Romance, song (from "Jumbo") - Dinah Shore/Frank Sinatra/Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra
16)	There's a Small Hotel, song (from "Jumbo") - Hal Kemp & His Orchestra
17)	Where or When, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Lena Horne/Lou Bring
18)	My Funny Valentine, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Mary Martin
19)	Johnny One Note, song (from "Babes in Arms") - Lynn Murray/Ruby Newman & His Orchestra/Wynn Murray
20)	Lady is a Tramp, song, The (from musical "Babes in Arms") - Harry Sosnik/Sophie Tucker
21)	Falling in Love with Love, song (from "The Boys from Syracuse") - Charles Previn/Allan Jones
22)	This Can't Be Love, song (from "The Boys From Syracuse") - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
23)	I Didn't Know What Time It Was, song (from "Too Many Girls") - Frank DeVol & His Orchestra/Margaret Whiting
24)	Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, song (from "Pal Joey") - John Rarig/Doris Day/Mellomen

Performer Notes

Personnel: Frank Crumit (vocals, ukulele); Hutch, Leslie A. Hutchinson (vocals, piano); Bob Borger, Fran Frey, Maxine Gray, Jack Fulton, Kenny Sargent, Martha Tilton, Austin Young, Bing Crosby, Charles Gaylord (vocals); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Bix Beiderbecke (cornet); Ed Smalle, Jack Shilkret (piano); Three Shades Of Blue (background vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell.
Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.
Recording information: Chicago, IL (07/15/1925-05/13/1949); Hollywood, CA (07/15/1925-05/13/1949); London, England (07/15/1925-05/13/1949); Los Angeles, CA (07/15/1925-05/13/1949); New York, NY (07/15/1925-05/13/1949).
Although a pop cover of a song from a Broadway musical could bring in considerable revenue and even keep a show running, Broadway songwriters often disparage such interpretations of their work. Rodgers & Hart even wrote a song, "I Like to Recognize the Tune," objecting to what pop stars sometimes did to their compositions. They might have been expected, therefore, not to think too much of British archival label ASV/Living Era's compilation of pop versions of songs from their shows. This collection looks for covers contemporary to the shows themselves, starting, for example, with bandleader Ben Selvin's 1925 recording of "Manhattan" from the 1925 revue Garrick Gaieties, an instrumental dance version that is taken at foxtrot tempo. More than half the tracks are hit recordings of the songs, while others, such as Jessie Matthews' "My Heart Stood Still" and Jeanette MacDonald's "Isn't It Romantic?," are performed by singers who introduced them onstage or in films. Since original Broadway cast recordings were virtually unknown during the period when Rodgers & Hart's shows were produced, these recordings are often invaluable representations of their work, whatever they themselves may have thought. The album is incomplete, missing such big hits as "Soon" and "Sentimental Me," and occasionally a revival from the 1940s has been substituted for a contemporary recording. Whether the song has been rendered as an instrumental or, as in the case of Doris Day's 1949 revival of the 1940 song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" from Pal Joey, the lyrics have been censored, you can see why Rodgers & Hart sometimes objected to these pop interpretations. But this is a songwriting team that is better remembered for its individual songs than its shows, and these are the songs that have built their lasting reputations in some of their earliest and most popular versions. ~ William Ruhlmann