Eight Classic Albums

Who played on Eight Classic Albums

• Dick Garcia guitar on 12 tracks
• George Shearing piano on 12 tracks
• Ralph Peña bass on 12 tracks
• Vernell Fournier drums (drum set) on 12 tracks
• Warren Chiasson vibraphone on 12 tracks
• Billy May arranger, conductor on 10 tracks
• Nancy Wilson vocals on 6 tracks

Tracklist

1. 1-1 Autumn in New York standard 5:04
2. 1-2 Strange 2:49
3. 1-3 Yesterdays standard 3:13
4. 1-4 Out of This World standard 3:19
5. 1-5 Goodnight, My Love 3:12
6. 1-6 Moonray — Artie Shaw 5:08
7. 1-7 Cuban Fantasy 2:26
8. 1-8 Midnight in the Air 2:26
9. 1-9 The Man I Love standard 4:09
10. 1-10 September Song standard 2:30
11. 1-11 Autumn Leaves standard 3:05
12. 1-12 Dancing on the Ceiling standard 5:24
13. 1-13 I’ll Close My Eyes standard 2:51
14. 1-14 A Foggy Day standard 3:13
15. 1-15 Have You Met Miss Jones standard 2:07
16. 1-16 The Starlit Hour 2:46
17. 1-17 All of You standard 2:40
18. 1-18 ’round Midnight standard 3:00
19. 1-19 No Moon at All standard 4:39
20. 2-1 The Story of Love 2:28
21. 2-2 Serenata — Leroy Anderson 2:44
22. 2-3 Tu, mi Delirio — César Portillo de la Luz 2:04
23. 2-4 Cali Mambo 2:48
24. 2-5 Rondo 2:50
25. 2-6 To the Ends of the Earth 2:43
26. 2-7 The Moon Was Yellow 2:40
27. 2-8 Wonder Struck 2:31
28. 2-9 Sand in My Shoes 2:07
29. 2-10 Mambo Caribe 2:57
30. 2-11 It’s Not for Me to Say — Robert Allen 1:49
31. 2-12 Mambo No 2 2:43
32. 2-13 All or Nothing at All standard 2:53
33. 2-14 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off standard — George Gershwin 1:55
34. 2-15 Afro No 4 2:31
35. 2-16 Magic 2:17
36. 2-17 It’s Easy to Remember standard — Richard Rodgers 2:09
37. 2-18 Estampa Cubana 2:56
38. 2-19 You Stepped Out of a Dream standard — Nacio Herb Brown 2:10
39. 2-20 Mambo Balahu 2:24
40. 2-21 Dearly Beloved standard — Jerome Kern 2:14
41. 2-22 Juana Palangana 2:25
42. 2-23 This Is Africa 2:59
43. 2-24 Anywhere 2:41
44. 3-1 Memories of You standard — Eubie Blake 3:04
45. 3-2 Lulu’s Back in Town standard — Harry Warren 2:13
46. 3-3 If You Were Mine — Matty Malneck 2:48
47. 3-4 Burnished Brass 3:02
48. 3-5 Thesis Things You Left Me 2:25
49. 3-6 Mine — George Gershwin 2:48
50. 3-7 Beautiful Love standard — Egbert Van Alstyne, Wayne King, Victor Young 2:24
51. 3-8 Cuckoo in the Clock — Walter Donaldson 2:39
52. 3-9 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child — [traditional] 3:42
53. 3-10 Cheek to Cheek standard — Irving Berlin 2:42
54. 3-11 Blame It on My Youth standard — Oscar Levant 3:10
55. 3-12 Basie’s Masement 2:37
56. 3-13 Deep Night — Charles Henderson 2:34
57. 3-14 In the Blue of Evening — Alfonso D’Artega 3:08
58. 3-15 I Could Write a Book standard — Richard Rodgers 2:07
59. 3-16 Sleepy Manhatten 2:56
60. 3-17 If I Had You standard 2:48
61. 3-18 Just Plain Bill 2:42
62. 3-19 First Floor Please 2:52
63. 3-20 Chelsea Bridge standard — Billy Strayhorn 2:57
64. 3-21 A Ship Without a Sail — Richard Rodgers 2:49
65. 3-22 Stairway to the Stars standard — Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli 2:47
66. 3-23 You Look Like Someone 3:00
67. 3-24 Night Flight 2:16
68. 4-1 Blue Moon standard 2:20
69. 4-2 Day by Day standard 1:37
70. 4-3 Yesterday’s Child 2:37
71. 4-4 Salud 2:15
72. 4-5 You and the Night and the Music standard 3:02
73. 4-6 Tintilin 2:48
74. 4-7 The Night Is Young and You Are So Beautiful 2:54
75. 4-8 Jackie’s Mambo 2:45
76. 4-9 All Through the Day standard 3:14
77. 4-10 Say Si Si 2:19
78. 4-11 Blue Rainbow 2:50
79. 4-12 Te Arango La Cabeza 2:21
80. 4-13 The Things We Did Last Summer standard — Jule Styne 2:42
81. 4-14 All Night Long 3:06
82. 4-15 Born to Be Blue standard 2:13
83. 4-16 On Green Dolphin Street standard — Bronisław Kaper 2:23
84. 4-17 Let’s Live Again 2:21
85. 4-18 The Nearness of You standard — Hoagy Carmichael 2:58
86. 4-19 Don’t Call Me 2:47
87. 4-20 Inspiration 2:15
88. 4-21 You Are There 2:08
89. 4-22 Blue Lou standard — Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson 2:17
90. 4-23 Oh! Look at Me Now standard — Joe Bushkin 2:11
91. 4-24 Lullaby of Birdland standard — George Shearing 2:22

Production

• Dave Cavanaugh producer
• Pete Welding producer
• Dennis Farnon orchestrator

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