• 33 files in collection
1. The Fat Lady is Sick Today

2. Astaire

3. Gershwin Tune

4. No Harm Done

5. The Ballad of the Sad Young Men

6. A Brontosaurus Called Bert

7. PIANO SOLO

8. Gigolo

9. They Couldn't Compare to You

10. PIANO SOLO

11. I'd Rather Sing a Song

12. From Where I Stand

13. Blackberry Winter

14. The Picture in the Hall

15. The Dinner Party

16. Context (It's About Me)

17. Beautiful You

18. Promised Land

19. Merry Little Minuet

20. Another Song About Paris

21. PIANO SOLO

22. The Masochism Tango

23. I Hold Your Hand in Mine

24. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

25. Vatican Rag

26. PIANO SOLO

27. Someone is Sending Me Flowers

28. Walk Up

29. Dublin in the Rain

30. Why Build a Fire?

31. A Serious Song

32. You

33. I Don't Wanna Rock and Roll

MP3 Courtney Kenny - American Cabaret Songs, 1950-2000

8.99 USD

Sophisticated Songs at the Piano

33 MP3 Songs
EASY LISTENING: Cabaret, EASY LISTENING: American Popular Song



Details:
I have always had a strong feeling for the more recent Great American Song Book. A recital in London on May 2006 gave me the opportunity to put together a whole programme of songs by friends, and composers I have admired. The concert was a great success, and so we decided to record it onto CD - hence the long list, and possibly not the best order of the songs. The piano solos were added to give me - and the audience - a rest: three are by old friends (I commissioned "Cliff Walk" from Scott Wheeler, Jeremy Dale Roberts "Tango for Lutz" is a neighbour, Madeleine Dring was a very well-known revue composer in London in the 1950s, as well as being a fantastic pianist) and the Polka Lente by Jean Weiner is a very long-standing favourite piece.
Many of the song composers are personal friends with whom I have studied and come to know through their songs, while others are composers who, while famous in the USA, are totally unknown in the UK (Bart Howard, Alec Wilder and Sheldon Harnick, for example)- and I thought that it was time the balance was restored in their favour!
One great problem was not what to include, but what I could possibly leave out! The choices were many, and some favourites had to be sacrificed along the way. I just hope that I have chosen songs which are not only my favourites, but favourites for my listeners as well.

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Keywords: easy listening american popular song;easy listening cabaret;mp3 album
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