VA - The Great American Songbook (3CD, 2012)
FLAC (tracks+cue,log) | 3:53:56 | 663 Mb
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Swing, Easy Listening / Label: MGM
Celebrating Four Decades of American Music 75 original hits performed by a collection of unforgettable artists including Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and many more… The Great American Songbook celebrates four decades of American popular song, from the early hits of Tin Pan Alley with such luminaries as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and the Gershwins, through to the great Broadway musicals of Rodgers, Hart and Hammerstein, and not forgetting the golden age of the movie song writers such as Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen and Sammy Cahn. The Great American Songbook revisits those glorious, glamorous years with songs that shaped a nation.