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Get Happy: The Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration (CD)

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DISC 1 for Get Happy: The Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Hooray For Love - Ella Fitzgerald
2   Get Happy - Mel Torme
3   Blues In The Night - Dinah Washington
4   Come Rain Or Come Shine - Joe Williams/Count Basie
5   That Old Black Magic - Shirley Horn
6   Let's Fall In Love - Diana Krall
7   It's Only A Paper Moon - Morgana King
8   Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Helen Merrill
9   Stormy Weather - Billie Holiday
10   If I Only Had A Brain - Abbey Lincoln
11   I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues - Louis Armstrong
12   Over The Rainbow - Sarah Vaughan
13   As Long As I Live - Billy Eckstine
14   Down With Love - Blossom Dearie
15   Man That Got Away, The - Ella Fitzgerald
16   My Shining Hour - Sammy Davis Jr./Count Basie
 
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Title Note

The Great American Songbook includes work by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin, to name a few. However, Harold Arlen may be the jazziest of all these composers. Therefore, a jazzy tribute to this master tunesmith is only fitting.

Billie Holiday's downtrodden version of "Stormy Weather" is simply a classic; it's hard to imagine any other singer bringing greater meaning to this lyric or greater inflection to this melody. In contrast, Mel Torme's "Get Happy" is a bouncy piece that sees the crooner jumping octaves with ease. There are also up-tempo big-band charts--"Hooray for Love," as performed Ella Fitzgerald, and "My Shining Hour," as sung by Sammy Davis Jr. On the latter, Count Basie's taut, virtuosic orchestra accompanies the charismatic Rat Packer, whose voice glides effortlessly over the sharp brass. Of course, no tribute to Arlen would be complete without "Over the Rainbow." On this album, Sarah Vaughan (backed by the Ernie Wilkins Orchestra) invokes the dreamy qualities of this timeless sanguine ballad.

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