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| Record Label: |
Antilles |
| Genre: |
Pop Vocal |
| Release Date: |
October 06, 1998 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Summertime - Morcheeba/Hubert Laws
2. It Ain't Necessarily So - Finley Quaye
3. But Not For Me - Natalie Merchant
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Smoke City
5. I Got Plenty O' Nuthin' - Spearhead/Ernest Ranglin
6. Summertime - Bobby Womack/The Roots
7. I Was Doing All Right - Davina
8. Embraceable You - Duncan Sheik
9. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - Clark Terry
10. I've Got a Crush on You - Luscious Jackson
11. Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin - Money Mark
12. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Majestic 12
13. Man I Love, The - Sarah Cracknell/Kid Loco
14. 'S Wonderful / Rhapsody In Blue - Skylab
15. Someone to Watch Over Me - Sinead O'Connor
16. Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Baaba Maal
17. Foggy Day, A (In London Town) - David Bowie/Angelo Badalamenti |
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Producers include: Morcheeba, Pete Norris, Finley Quaye, Natalie Merchant, Smake City. Compilation producers: John Carlin, Chris Dell'Olio, Beco Dranoff, Brian Hanna, Paul Heck. Engineers include: Pete Norris, Pete Craigie, George Cowan. Includes liner notes by John Carlin. 1990's RED HOT + BLUE, the first release in a justly celebrated series of ongoing AIDS benefit projects, featured provocative postmodern interpretations of Cole Porter songs. It makes sense then that the series returns to its roots, so to speak, with this contemporary George Gershwin tribute, maybe the best of the lot and certainly apropos during the composer's centennial. Present are a motley crew of artists, some well-known (Natalie Merchant, Sinead O'Connor, David Bowie), some not so (Davina, Smoke City, Spearhead). What they all share is a musically imaginative approach to these overworked warhorses, too long the province of bad cabaret singers, crossover classical artists and other offenders to numerous to mention. Example 1: Fin... |
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