Rosemary Clooney - Best of the Concord Years
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Artist: Rosemary ClooneyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Hey There
- I've Got A Crush On You
- Pennies From Heaven
- Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
- I Cover The Waterfront
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Meditation
- Will You Still Be Mine?
- Just One Of Those Things
- Stormy Weather
- I'm Beginning To See The Light
- Cheek To Cheek
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- I Thought About You
- Something's Got To Give
- I Wish I Were In Love Again
- People Will Say We're In Love
- Sentimental Journey
- Straighten Up And Fly Right
- Nice 'N' Easy
- Do You Miss New York?
- As Long As I Live
- Let's Get Away From It All
- The Coffee Shop
- Mambo Italiano
- A Foggy Day
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
- Old Devil Moon
- Brazil
- I'm The Big Band Singer
- God Bless America/They Can't Take That Away From Me
- White Christmas
Music reviews of Best of the Concord Years
Music Review: "Her Musical Taste Was Always Impeccable"
Rating: 5 Stars
"It is with great love and affection that we invite you to sit back and listen to this special two-disc-set containing some of Rosemary's most incredible performances. We hope that these gems will touch you the way Rosemary touched all of us. Here's to the Girl Singer. With love and remembrance." ~ Glen A. Barros, President, Concord Records ~
The material on this double-disc compilation represents Rosemary Clooney's very best recordings from 1967 through 2002 under Concord Records where she had the exclusive privilege of selecting the particular songs that she would record. Her choices have always been impressive. I totally agree with Nick Clooney when he wrote on the album's Liner Notes that his sister's "musical taste was always impeccable."
The Wall Street Journal once described Rosemary Clooney as "a Pop icon and spoken in the same breath as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald." In addition, the music world has unamimously named her as "Girl Singer" and "a song's best friend."
Clooney brings along on this two-disc-set a touch of happiness, a tinge of melancholy, a trace of Christmas, a dose of wistful thinking, a little bit of sadness, a dash of fun, an ounce of patriotism, and a hint of hope.
"As a singer, I can just tuck my songs under my arm and go sing them anywhere." ~ Rosemary Clooney ~
Each song--all 32 of them--is very special and memorable. Her exceptional and distinctive voice blends flawlessly with the instrumentations by some of the greatest musicians in the industry - the likes of John Clayton, Monty Budwig (bass), Scott Hamilton (tenor sax), Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, Cal Collins (guitar), Warren Vache (cornet), Nat Pierce, Dave McKenna (piano), Jeff Hamilton (drums), Cal Tjader (vibes), from among many others. The superb musicianship on all performances can be attributed to the top-notch arrangements courtesy of Nelson Riddle, John Oddo, Earl Brown and Peter Matz.
While I especially enjoyed listening to the complete set, I have to say that I'm extremely pleased with her renditions of "Hey, There," "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and "Meditation" on Disc One. On Disc Two, the standout tracks include "A Foggy Day," "Brazil" and "Let's Get Away From It All," a delightful song from the pens of a great pair of songwriters, Thomas Adair and Matt Dennis.
"Let's take a boat to Bermuda
Let's take a plane to Saint Paul
Let's take a kayak to Quincy or Nyack
Let's get away from it all..."
On February 28, 2002, four months before her death, Clooney was honored with the highest award given to any long-standing artist who made an impressive mark in the music industry--the Grammy for Lifetime Achievement Award. She truly deserved it and this double disc set,"The Best of The Concord Years," is one of the testaments of the Girl Singer's greatness.
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Description of Best of the Concord Years
2003 compilation release from Concord Jazz for the 'girl singer' from Kentucky features 32 tracks showcasing her inimitable way with a lyric, her relaxed, conversational phrasing, her distinctive voice & her impeccable musical taste. Packaged in a double gatefold digipak with booklet.At an age when most of her pop vocalist contemporaries of the 1940s and '50s were semi-retired or comfortably ensconced in the nostalgia circuit, Rosemary Clooney was busy reinventing herself as jazz stylist and stellar interpreter of the American songbook. The 31-tracks of this double-disc anthology span the final decades (1970s-'90s) of her career, a period in which the Concord label offered her a compelling forum to redress much the novelty and pop fodder she'd felt burdened with early in her career. Her work here is characterized by an elegant, if distinctly deceiving simplicity, a sense of less as more that imparts her impeccable readings of Gershwin, Porter, Mercer, et. al. a crucial sense that Clooney is living these songs as much as singing them. The singer's languid take on the standard "Brazil" zigs when you expect it to zag, suggesting some steamy tropical torpor and emphasizing that the latter-day Clooney was seldom prisoner to expectations, a restless creative sense she rewardingly imparts to even her revamped versions of previous hits like "Hey There," "White Christmas," and "Mambo Italiano." --Jerry McCulley
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