The Concert Singers

Jazz-Me Blues

Jazz Concert and Ice Cream Social

July 10, 2005

TENTATIVE PROGRAM

• The Jazz-Me Blues (1921: wm. Tom Delaney; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• Fidgety Feet (1926: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; from Oh, Kay!) {96; 93}
• Someone to Watch Over Me (1926: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; from Oh, Kay!)
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1928: from Blackbirds of 1928; w. Dorothy Fields; m. Jimmy McHugh; arr. Dave Riley & Jay Althouse)
• Without a Song (1929: w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu; m. Vincent Youmans; from Great Day!; theme song of Lawrence Tibbett) {95}
• Forty-Second Street Medley (w. Al Dubin; m. Harry Warren; arr. Dick Averre)
  • Forty-Second Street (1933: from Forty-Second Street)
  • About a Quarter to Nine (1935: from Go Into Your Dance)
  • Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933: from Forty-Second Street)
  • The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) (1933: from Gold Diggers of 1933)
  • Dames (1934: from Dames)
  • Go Into Your Dance (1935: from Go Into Your Dance)
  • Lullaby of Broadway (1935: from Gold Diggers of 1935)
• Blues Back to Back (arr. Jacques C. Rizzo)
  • I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1932: w. Ted Kohler; m. Harold Arlen; from Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932)
  • Birth of the Blues (1926: w. B. G. DeSylva & Lew Brown; m. Ray Henderson; from George White's Scandals of 1926) 
• Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) (1941: w. Johnny Mercer; m. Harold Arlen)
• How Deep Is the Ocean (1932: wm. Irving Berlin; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• Blue Skies (1927: wm. Irving Berlin; from Betsy; arr. Steve Zegree)

INTERMISSION

• Hit Me With a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce! (1945: w. Don George; m. Duke Ellington; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• Beyond the Sea (La Mer) (1945: English w. Jack Lawrence; French w. & m. Charles Trenet; arr. Kirby Shaw; recorded by Bobby Darin)
• I Wish You Love (Que Reste-t-il de Nos Amours) (1946, 1955-56; English w. Albert A. Beach; French w. & m. Charles Trenet; arr. Roger Emerson; recorded by Bobby Darin)
• Lullaby of Birdland (1952: w. George David Weiss; m. George Shearing; arr. Carl Strommen)
• Dream Lover (1959: wm. Bobby Darin; arr. Mac Huff)
• A Wink and a Smile (1993: wm. Marc Shaiman & Ramsey McClain; arr. John Leavitt; from the film Sleepless in Seattle) {95}
• Steam Heat (1952: wm. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross; arr. Kirby Shaw; from The Pajama Game) {95}
• Swing Dancin' (1999: wm. Kirby Shaw) {00}

Narration for this concert

Omitted from this performance:

• The Manhattan Transfer in Concert (1982: arr. Jerry Nowak) {00}
  • Birdland (1979: w. Jon Hendricks; m. Josef Zawinul)
  • Spice of Life (1983: wm. Rod Temperton & Derek Bramble)
  • Tuxedo Junction (1939: w. Buddy Feyne; m. Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson, & Julian Dash)

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