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... Sings the Great American Songbook

Compilation of 麻豆社 performances of the Great American Songbook tracks, featuring Shirley Bassey, Jamie Cullum, Bryan Ferry, Captain Sensible, Kirsty MacColl and Florence Welch.

Presenting the best and most eclectic performances on the 麻豆社 from the world's best-known artists performing their interpretations of classic tracks from The Great American Songbook.

In chronological order, this programme takes us through a myriad of 麻豆社 studio performances, from Dame Shirley Bassey in 1966 performing The Lady is A Tramp, to Bryan Ferry in 1974 on Twiggy's 麻豆社 primetime show performing Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, to Captain Sensible on Top of the Pops in 1982 with his number one hit version of Happy Talk, through to Kirsty MacColl singing Miss Otis Regrets in 1994 to Jamie Cullum with his version of I Get a Kick Out Of You on Parkinson in 2004 and bang up to date with Brit winner Florence from Florence and the Machine performing My Baby Just Cares for Me with Jools Holland on his Annual Hootenanny at the end of 2009.

The Great American Songbook can best be described as the music and popular songs of the famous and prolific American composers of the 1920s and onwards. Composers such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Hoagy Carmichael to name but a few... songwriters who wrote the tunes of Broadway theatre and Hollywood musicals that earned enduring popularity before the dawning of rock 'n' roll.

These famous songwriters have penned songs which have entered the general consciousness and which are now best described as standards - tunes which every musician and singer aspires to include in their repertoire.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 3 Apr 2020 23:00

Music Played

  • Jimmy Scott

    All of Me

  • Dr. John

    Blues in the Night

  • Jack Jones

    Call Me Irresponsible

  • Michael Bubl茅

    Come Fly With Me

  • Diana Krall

    Devil May Care

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

  • Captain Sensible

    Happy Talk

  • Jamie Cullum

    I Get a Kick Out Of You

  • Harry Connick, Jr.

    It Had To Be You

  • Nilsson

    Makin' Whoopee

  • Kirsty MacColl

    Miss Otis Regrets

  • Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra & Florence Welch

    My Baby Just Cares For Me

  • Sammy Davis Jr.

    My Funny Valentine

  • Tony Bennett

    One For My Baby

  • The Bryan Ferry Orchestra

    Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

  • Johnny Mercer

    Something's Gotta Give

  • Alison Moyet

    That Ole Devil Called Love

  • Shirley Bassey

    The Lady is a Tramp

  • Alison Moyet

    That Ole Devil Called Love

Credit

Role Contributor
Producer Stephanie McWhinnie

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