Side A
Artist	Song
Harold Arlen	Sweet and Hot
Frank Sinatra	I've Got the World On a String
Ella Fitzgerald	Let's Fall In Love
Judy Garland	Get Happy
Lena Horne	Stormy Weather
Billie Holiday	I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
June Christy	As Long As I Live
Nat King Cole	It's Only a Paper Moon
Barbara Cook	I Had Myself a True Love
Bobby Short	Hooray For Love
Louis Prima & Keely Smith	That Old Black Magic
Sammy Davis Jr.	Two Ladies in De Shade of De Banana Tree
Dean Martin	Hit the Road to Dreamland
Frank Sinatra w/ Count Basie	One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Mandy Patinkin	Over the Rainbow
Ella Fitzgerald	Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Groucho Marx	Lydia the Tattooed Lady
Judy Garland	The Man That Got Away
Frank Sinatra	Last Night When We Were Young
Tony Bennett	It Was Written in the Stars
Mel Torme	Let's Take a Walk Around the Block
Bobby Short	Down With Love
Ella Fitzgerald	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Barbra Streisand	A Sleepin' Bee
Frank Sinatra	Blues in the Night
Ray Charles	Come Rain or Come Shine
Bobby Short	Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
Harold Arlen	Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

Comment:

Last year, I had the great good fortune to appear in a theatrical revue of the songs of Harold Arlen, and later made this mix as a cast gift. Arlen is the forgotten man of the Great American Songbook, as a glance at (most of) his greatest hits confirms. Son of a cantor from Buffalo, he started as a Jazz Age singer before switching full time to songwriting and working with the creme of golden era lyricists, including Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Leo Robin, Ted Koehler and the incomparable Yip Harburg. In fact, Arlen and Harburg were working for MGM on the Marx Bros.' "At the Circus" (from whence came 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady,' my big solo in the show, and that's typecasting) when the studio decided to switch them to a project with more potential: "The Wizard of Oz." He wrote several Broadway scores but never had a big hit, though there were always some great songs and "St. Louis Woman" was a glorious failure. In the '60s, he was an early champion of La Streisand, who recorded several of his songs on her first three LPs, and has recently been championed by Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald. He wrote two of Sinatra's stone classic torch songs, 'One For My Baby' and 'Blues in the Night', as well as the very great art songs 'A Sleepin' Bee' and the Gershwinesque 'I Had Myself A True Love'. While there are several good multi-artists collections out there (Hal Willner recently oversaw an offbeat one, 'Stormy Weather,' with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Debbie Harry and David Johansen), beginners are advised to check out Ella's sublime Songbook, arranged and conducted by Billy May and the unheralded gem in that series. Apologies, as always, to unrepresented Arlen interpreters such as McDonald, Miss Pearl Bailey, Rosemary Clooney and Der Bingle.

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