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Table of Contents:

• The song is you (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra ; with Frank Sinatra)
• Ol' man river (Paul Robeson)
• Bill (Helen Morgan)
• Yesterdays (Billie Holiday)
• The last time I saw Paris (Kate Smith)
• In love in vain (Margaret Whiting)
• Long ago and far away (Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest)
• Look for the silver lining (Judy Garland)
• Can't help lovin' that man (Lena Horne)
• I won't dance (Jack Cassidy and Kaye Ballard)
• Poor Pierrot (Mabel Mercer)
• Nobody else but me (Bobby Short)
• The way you look tonight (Teddi King)
• Smoke gets in your eyes (Sarah Vaughan)
• Why was I born? (Gogi Grant)
• A sure thing (David Allyn)
• All the things you are (Gordon MacRae)
• A fine romance (Ella Fitzgerald)
• Lovely to look at (Oscar Peterson Trio)
• I'm old fashioned (Eileen Farrell)

• Pick yourself up (Nat "King" Cole).

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Author/Creator:

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 , composer

Contributors:

Dorsey, Tommy, 1905-1956 , performer

Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 , performer

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 , performer

Morgan, Helen, 1900-1941 , performer

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 , performer

Smith, Kate, 1907-1986 , performer

Whiting, Margaret , performer

Haymes, Dick , performer

Forrest, Helen , performer

Garland, Judy , performer

Horne, Lena , performer

Cassidy, Jack, 1927-1976 , performer

Ballard, Kaye , performer

Mercer, Mabel, 1900-1984 , performer

Short, Bobby , performer

King, Teddi , performer

Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 , performer

Grant, Gogi , performer

Allyn, David, 1919-2012 , performer

MacRae, Gordon , performer

Fitzgerald, Ella , performer

Farrell, Eileen, 1920-2002 , performer

Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 , performer

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Oscar Peterson Trio , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Jerome Kern [by Kern, J.]

Related Series:

American songbook series

Subjects:

Popular music — 1921-1930

Popular music — 1931-1940

Popular music — 1941-1950

Musicals — Excerpts

Motion picture music — Excerpts

1921-1950

Musicals

Motion picture music

Popular music

Genres:

Songs

Popular music

Jazz

Musicals

Motion picture music

Excerpts

Performers:

Various performers.

Performance Medium:

Singer; orchestra
1 ensemble: instrumental ensemble

General Notes:

Recorded 1932-1964.
Selections previously released.
Program notes and composer biography by John Eaton (12 pages) inserted in container.
Title from disc label.
From the collection of Allen and Madeleine Forte.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (67 min., 34 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo; mono

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 157,044

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RD 048-4
Publisher Number, Sony Music Special Products: A 22406

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99582906

OCLC Numbers:

26407770