Fascinatin' Rhythm: Capitol Sings Gershwin

Capitol Sings (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 23, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol Records
• ASIN: B000005JOS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,934 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rhapsody in Blue - Freddy Martin, His Orchestra

2. A Foggy Day - Dorothy Donegan

3. But Not for Me [#] - Margaret Whiting

4. Embraceable You - The Nat King Cole Trio

5. Fascinating Rhythm - Vic Damone

6. I Got Rhythm - Ann Richards

7. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Liza Minnelli

8. It Ain't Necessarily So - Ella Mae Morse

9. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - Marian McPartland

10. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Jeri Southern

11. Of Thee I Sing - The Andrews Sisters

12. 'S Wonderful - Julie London

13. Someone to Watch over Me - Jean Turner

14. Strike up the Band - Tony Bennett

15. Summertime - Gordon MacRae

16. Swanee - Judy Garland

17. They All Laughed - Dakota Staton

18. They Can't Take That Away from Me [#] - Peggy Lee

19. How Long Has This Been Going On? - June Christy

20. That Certain Feeling - Jo Ann Greer

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinatin' Rhythm, May 14, 2009

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Lanza Gonzalo (Uruguay) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fascinatin' Rhythm: Capitol Sings Gershwin (Audio CD)

Ok. excellent!! Maybe for my fault I buy twice of this Cd. Don't matter, I gifted it for my brother.

5.0 out of 5 stars Capitol stars swing with the songs of George Gerswhin, September 15, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fascinatin' Rhythm: Capitol Sings Gershwin (Audio CD)

"Fascinatin' Rhythm," the Capitol Sings collection of George Gershwin tunes, begins with Freddy Martin and his Orchestra doing a version of "Rhapsody in Blue" to which you can swing your partner around the dance floor, perfectly capturing the charm of this series. Here are your favorite songs by our greatest composers often done in different ways from what you usually expect. But changing music style or tempo, adding percussions or strings, are what make these songs so enjoyable. Dorothy Donegan's "A Foggy Day" is a particularly jazzy version, but then Margaret Whiting's "But Not For Me" is big band style while Ann Richards does a very slow and sultry cover of "I Got Rhythm" (at least at the start). Sometimes the twist is that someone like Gordon MacRae sings "Summertime," a song he would certainly never get to do on stage in "Porgy & Bess" for a couple of rather obvious reasons. Like all the albums in this series, "Fascinatin' Rhythm" combines covers by big stars like Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee with lesser known artists such as Keely Smith, Jo Ann Greer, Dakota Staton and Marian McPartland (I guess I would have to put Anna Marie Alberghetti in the middle on this one). My favorite track on this album would be Judy Garland's live version of "Swanee," but "They Can't Take That Away From Me" is certainly one of Peggy Lee's best efforts. "Fascinatin' Rhythm" may be well be the most female artist dominated disc in the Capitol Sings collection, which for my money only adds to its enjoyment.