Rodgers & Hart Songbook

Rodgers & Hart | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Jazz Special
• ASIN: B000005NKT
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,295 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Manhattan

2. The Blue Room

3. It Never Entered My Mind

4. Lover

5. Falling in Love With Love

6. Spring Is Here

7. Isn't It Romantic?

8. Have You Met Miss Jones?

9. My Romance

10. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too incomplete, February 11, 2007

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This review is from: Rodgers & Hart Songbook (Audio CD)

Lorenz Hart and his musical collaborator, Richard Rodgers, met in college. For the next quarter-century, these two would produce some remarkable music. Hart's brilliant lyrics perfectly matched Rodgers' melodies. Hart struggled all his life with both the stigma of homosexuality (things were unfortunately different in the 1930s) and alcoholism. Drinking may have contributed to Hart's premature death at age 48, in 1943.

The RODGERS & HART songbook has some fine examples, yet too much of this duo's best work is not here: "Blue Moon," "My Heart Stood Still," "Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered," "Mimi," "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World," "Ten Cents A Dance," "My Funny Valentine," "In The Cool Of The Evening," "The Lady Is A Tramp" and "Where Or When" are all worthy of inclusion. In fact, several of these should have been favored over songs that ARE on this album.

There's better Rodgers & Hart collections available. (2½ stars)