Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook

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Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook
Come Rain or Shine - The Harold Arlen Songbook.jpg
Studio album by
André Previn and Sylvia McNair
Released1996
RecordedAugust 1995
Studio, Weston, Massachusetts
GenreJazz
Length1:09:11
LabelPhilips 446 818-2[1]
ProducerJohn Patterson
André Previn chronology
André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat
(1995) 		Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook
(1996) 		Jazz at the Musikverein
(1997)
Sylvia McNair chronology
Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook
(1996)

Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook is a 1996 album by André Previn and Sylvia McNair of songs by the composer Harold Arlen.[2]

The initial Billboard magazine review from June 8, 1996 commented that "McNair is best in cozy renditions of Arlen ballads, giving away a tad too-much of her concert hall skills on the rhythm numbers...the album has that wonderful, intimate air of a singer and musician who got together for what turned out to be a charming gathering 'round the keyboard".[3]

Come Rain or Come Shine was also reviewed in BBC Music Magazine, San Diego Magazine and Gramophone.[4][5][6]

Track listing[]

  1. "Over the Rainbow" (E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:52
  2. "Stormy Weather" (Ted Koehler) – 4:2
  3. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Koehler) – 2:01
  4. "It Was Written in the Stars" (Leo Robin) – 4:29
  5. "As Long as I Live" (Koehler) – 4:03
  6. "That Old Black Magic" (Johnny Mercer) – 3:02
  7. "The Morning After" (Dory Previn) – 3:18
  8. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Truman Capote) – 5:29
  9. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Mercer) – 2:56
  10. "Goose Never Be a Peacock" (Mercer) – 3:55
  11. "I Wonder What Became of Me" (Mercer) – 3:23
  12. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:41
  13. "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree" (Capote) – 2:13
  14. "Cocoanut Sweet" (Harburg) – 5:30
  15. "Right as the Rain" (Harburg) – 3:28
  16. "I've Got the World on a String" (Koehler) – 3:43
  17. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Mercer) – 4:13
  18. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Mercer) – 3:34
  19. "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block" (Ira Gershwin, Harburg) – 5:39
  20. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harburg) – 2:46

Personnel[]

Production[]

  • John Newton – engineer
  • John Patterson – producer

References[]

  1. ^ - Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook
  2. ^ Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook at AllMusic
  3. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (8 June 1996). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 97. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. ^ BBC Music Magazine. BBC magazines. 1996. p. 81.
  5. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ki8KAQAAMAAJ Gramophone, pg. 134
  6. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ekjAQAAIAAJ San Diego Magazine, pg. 81
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