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Mantovani
Gems Forever / Mantovani Memories
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Classical

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. All the Things You Are, song (from "Very Warm for May") - Mantovani, Kern
2. True love, song (from "High Society") - Mantovani, Porter, Cole
3. I Could Have Danced All Night, song (from "My Fair Lady") - Mantovani, Loewe
4. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song, song - Mantovani, Berlin
5. A Woman in Love - Mantovani, Loesser
6. This Nearly Was Mine, song (from "South Pacific") - Mantovani, Rodgers, Richard
7. Summertime, song (from Porgy and Bess, opera) - Mantovani, Gershwin, G.
8. Something to remember you by - Mantovani, Schwartz, Arthur
9. Love Letters, song - Mantovani, Young
10. The Nearness of You - Mantovani, Carmichael
11. An An Affair to Remember - Mantovani, Warren
12. The Hey, There! - Mantovani, Adler
13. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, song (from "Roberta") - Mantovani, Kern
14. What A Wonderful World - Mantovani, Weiss
15. The Trolley Song (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis) - Mantovani, Blaine, Ralph
16. Sweet Leilani (for the film "Waikiki Wedding") - Mantovani, Owens, Harry
17. Try to Remember, song (from The Fantasticks) - Mantovani, Schmidt, Harvey
18. Sunrise, Sunset, song (from "Fiddler on the Roof") - Mantovani, Bock, Jerry
19. Anniversary Waltz - Mantovani, Franklin
20. In the still of the night, song (from "Rosalie") - Mantovani, Porter
21. Once Upon a Time - Mantovani, Strause, Charles
22. Embraceable You, song (from Girl Crazy, musical) - Mantovani, Gershwin, G.
23. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, song (for "Finian's Rainbow") - Mantovani, Lane
24. You'll Never Walk Alone, song (from "Carousel") - Mantovani, Rodgers

CD Details

All Artists: Mantovani
Title: Gems Forever / Mantovani Memories
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Dutton Vocalion UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 11/11/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Classical
Styles: Easy Listening, Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 765387437428, 0765387437428

CD Reviews

Mantovani Nostalgia At Its Best!

Thomas E. DeJulio | Bronxville, NY USA | 01/01/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These latest offerings from Vocalion invoke the finest musical memories created by Mantovani's original 46-piece orchestra, spanning the period beginning in 1959 with the million seller stereo album "Gems Forever" followed by one of Mantovani's best recordings of the late 1960's, "Memories". They feature the composers whose music continues to be sung, heard, and interpreted for all ages: Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Lerner and Lowe. Mantovani's stunning arrangements of the music of these iconic composers showcase his 34 string players at their very finest. The lush and sumptuous sounds heard on such tracks as "All the Things You Are" (a Mantovani concert favorite), the melodic Cecil Milner arrangement of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, the sizzling Stan Newsome trumpet solo in "Summertime", and the rapturous "This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific, immortalize these popular classics for light orchestra. They indeed all have become Gems Forever, and the golden luster of the Mantovani sound given prominence on each of the 24 tracks on this CD provides proof that Mantovani and his arrangements for light orchestra will always be without equal."