Magic World of Gordon Jenkins: In a Tender Mood

Gordon Jenkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B00004TFDQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,265 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Manhattan Towers: Once Upon A Dream

2. Manhattan Towers: Married I Can Always Get

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Blue Prelude

5. Blue Evening

6. San Fernando Valley

7. Homesick - That's All

8. Seven Dreams: The Girl On The Rock

9. Manhattan Towers: Never Leave Me

10. You Have Taken My Heart

11. The Letter: The Red Balloon

12. P.S. I Love You

13. When A Woman Loves A Man

14. Happy New Year

15. In The Summertime

16. Goodbye

17. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

18. Just One Of Those Things

19. Gone With The Wind

20. When Your Lover Has Gone

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A long-awaited treasure chest, June 13, 2000

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"aquariuslib" - See all my reviews

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This new collection of Gordon Jenkins tracks is something I've been waiting for ever since CDs first appeared. One of my most treasured Jenkins vinyls is a 10" disc of Gordon's own compositions...and here they are, back and sparkling new again..on CD. After more than 35 years I can once again listen to his own songs as he wanted them to sound:"When a Man Loves a Woman","Goodbye" "Blue Prelude", "Homesick, That's All", "P.S I Love You", "You have taken my heart"...with strings,vocalists and the chorus in excellent form. Add to this Jenkins' own distinctive touch in evergreen classics such as "Stella by Starlight", "Begin the Beguine"..and , of course, Gordie's own musical and lyrical mini-masterpiece, the near-autobiographical "This Is AllI Ask". An all-round treasure chest of never-to-be-forgotten arrangements, presentation and sheer artistry in Gordon Jenkins' very own, distinctive style. He would have loved this re-issue...and so will every Jenkins fan.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Jenkins revisited, November 15, 2001

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I grew up on Gordon Jenkins. It seems he has been lost in music history until these new releases. What music! what arrangements! what a musician. Mellow and meaningful.
I have the original set of Seven Dreams on 45 rpm&box. I hope this lost masterpiece of Gordon Jenkin's will be remastered also!

3.0 out of 5 stars Amazon Deflates Bubbles, September 30, 2011

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Amazon sampler plays Gordon Jenkins's recording of I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles with Artie Shaw playing solo clarinet, then playing in unison with Gordon Jenkins's one-finger style. This is how I remember the boxed 45-rpm album in 1954. It is the reason I oedered the reissue CD. But when the CD came, there was no Artie Shaw--only a mixed chorus of voices.It was a disappointment that does not ease, and it relegates the CD to the unplayed, unwanted stack. What Amazon offers is not what Amazon delivers. I wonder if Billy Butterfield gets the same treatment in Stardust--or even Artie Shaw on Begin the Beguine.