The Ultimate Collection
Artist: George Gershwin

George Gershwin: The Ultimate Collection is a nice double-disc set that collects definitive performances of Gershwin standards from Rhapsody in Blue to Funny Face. It's a wildly eclectic collection, containing cuts from Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Audrey Hepburn, Sarah Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and the Boston Pops... Read More

Bing Crosby Sings Irving Berlin and Rodgers & Hart
Artist: Bing Crosby

The most surprising thing about this 22-track, 65½-minute compilation is that during the early period of his solo recording career, 1932-42, covered by this disc, Bing Crosby, the most successful singer of the time, recorded so few of the songs of Irving Berlin, the most successful songwriter of the time. So few, in fact, that in order to fill... Read More

To Ella with Love
Artist: Ann Hampton Callaway

Ann Hampton Callaway has a strong reputation as one of the top cabaret singers of the 1990's but, unlike most others in that idiom, she is also a talented jazz singer. Callaway, who has a beautiful voice with a wide range, always swings while giving strong emphasis to the lyrics she is interpreting. Her ambitious and successful Ella Fitzgerald... Read More

Collector's Gems from MGM Films
Artist: Judy Garland

Judy Garland's recording career can effectively be divided into two halves -- the first, lasting until the dawn of the 1950s, was spent at Decca Records and ran parallel to (but not in tandem with) her tenure at MGM, while her concert years, overlapping with her signing to Capitol Records, cover the last 15 years of her life, from the mid-'50s... Read More

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins
Artist: Michael Feinstein
Community Score: 5.00

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins is Michael Feinstein's second all-Gershwin album. His first, Pure Gershwin, was his best record, probably because, as a former secretary to Ira Gershwin, he knew his way around the material. This time, Feinstein puts his extensive knowledge of the Gershwin catalogue to good use, unearthing lost... Read More

Greatest Hits - MCA
Artist: Jack Jones

Featuring 18 songs, including "The Impossible Dream," "Call Me Irresponsible," and "Lollipops and Roses," Greatest Hits is the definitive Jack Jones collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read More

Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Let's Face the Music and Dance, Vol. 2: 1935-1943 - ASV/LIVING ERA
Artist: Fred Astaire

By 1935, Fred Astaire had become a film star, and he had also demonstrated appeal to record buyers by serving as the featured vocalist for Leo Reisman's Orchestra. That year, he signed as a solo recording artist to Brunswick Records. By recording studio versions of the songs he was singing in his movies, he became a major recording star, scoring... Read More

Crazy Feet! - ASV/LIVING ERA
Artist: Fred Astaire

This compilation brings together 20 recordings that Fred Astaire, and, on eight songs, his sister Adele, made during the period when the Astaires were successful stage performers in a series of musicals on Broadway and in the West End, including George and Ira Gershwin's Lady, Be Good! and Funny Face, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's The Band... Read More

The Pop Side
Artist: Rise Stevens