Fred Astaire - Golden Greats (2001)

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Artist: Fred Astaire
Title: Golden Greats
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Disky [MP 790902]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 03:32:11
Total Size: 1015 MB(+3%) | 502 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

CD 1:

01. Cheek To Cheek 3:16
02. Let's Face The Music And Dance 2:28
03. Let's Calle The Whole Thing Off 3:13
04. Never Gonna Dance 3:09
05. A Fine Romance 2:51
06. They All Laughed 2:44
07. The Way You Look Tonight 3:07
08. A Foggy Day (In London Town) 2:50
09. Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:43
10. Let Yourself Go 2:34
11. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket 2:46
12. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails 2:37
13. Isn't This A Lovely Day? 3:12
14. Change Partners 3:07
15. They Can't Take That Away Frome Me 3:55
16. I Can't Be Bothered Now 2:25
17. Things Are Looking Up 3:06
18. Pick Yourself Up 2:56
19. Slap That Bass 2:55
20. (I've Got) Beginner's Luck 2:50
21. Bojangles Of Harlem 3:03
22. No Strings 2:32
23. The Piccolino 3:15
24. We Saw The Sea 2:19
25. Shall We Dance? 2:29

CD 2:

01. Night and day 3:13
02. After you, who? 3:16
03. I'm building up to an awful let-down 3:02
04. I'd rather lead a band 2:28
05. I used to be colour blind 3:04
06. The yam 2:43
07. The yam step (explained) 2:51
08. High hat 2:29
09. My one and only 3:03
10. The half of it dearie blues 2:45
11. The babbit and the bromide 3:03
12. Hang on to me 2:44
13. I love Louisa 3:00
14. Fascinatin' rythm 2:24
15. Funny face 3:04
16. I'd rather Charleston 2:52
17. White heat ... dancing in the dark (orchestra only) 5:17
18. Hoops 2:49
19. Sweet music (to worry the wolf away) 2:25
20. Louisiana 2:54
21. Not my girl 2:27
22. Maybe it's because (I love you too much) 3:26
23. The gold digger's song (we're in the money) 2:16
24. I've got you on my mind 2:45
25. Crazy feet 2:51

CD 3:

01. Puttin' on the Ritz 2:09
02. Dearly beloved 2:40
03. Who cares? 2:50
04. You're easy to dance with 2:48
05. You were never lovelier 2:43
06. Flying down to Rio 2:46
07. Music makes me 2:28
08. I'll capture your heart 2:24
09. Dream dancing 2:42
10. This heart of mine 3:05
11. Since I kissed my baby goodbye 2:57
12. I'm old fashioned 2:25
13. A couple of song and dance men 2:17
14. Love of my life 2:23
15. On the beam 2:40
16. So near and yet so far 3:06
17. The "Shorty George" 3:04
18. I can't tell a lie 2:42
19. Me and the ghost upstairs 2:30
20. Just like taking candy from a baby 2:48
21. Poor Mister Chisholm 2:46
22. (I ain't hep to that step, but I'll) Dig it 2:22
23. The wedding cake walk 2:31
24. Wedding in the Spring 3:01
25. If swing goes, I go too 2:33

Fred Astaire is remembered primarily for his feats of cinematic terpsichore, but he also did a fair amount of singing in his movies, and he found occasion throughout his career to go into the recording studio and sing many of the songs featured in his films, as well as some other material. These recordings were made for a variety of record companies, dating back to the English Columbia label, which had him and his sister Adele preserve some of the songs from their stage shows when they were in London in the 1920s. In the '30s, while he was making a series of movies with Ginger Rogers, Astaire recorded for Brunswick Records, following a brief sojourn at RCA Victor, and by the '40s, he was contracted to Decca. All these recordings are now in the vaults of different major labels, but in Europe, where there seems to be a 50-year copyright limitation, they are all in the public domain, allowing the Dutch reissue label Disky to assemble this three-CD, three-and-a-half-hour collection by transferring old 78s and cleaning up the sound. Golden Greats is a bare-bones package not even containing a booklet. So, all you get for annotation is a list of songs and songwriters in small print on the back cover. Compiler Tony Watts has mixed the selections up, but roughly speaking, the first disc contains the '30s Brunswick material, standards by the likes of Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, while the second disc goes back to the '20s (more Gershwin), and the third disc contains the '40s Decca tracks. Thus, the bulk of Astaire's studio recordings from 1923 to 1946 is included, in reasonably good sound. If there were annotations, they would note the presence of Bing Crosby on two tracks, and occasional accompaniment by Benny Goodman, among others.~William Ruhlmann

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