CDs with: Sears, Benjamin

Beyond the rainbow / lyrics by E.Y. Harburg.

Oz medley: Munchkinland ; Ding-dong! the witch is dead / Harold Arlen (4:35) -- Never bedevil the devil / Jacques Offenbach ; arr. Gorney, DeCormier (1:49) -- The Peter Pan of Tin Pan Alley (1:05) ; Fun to be fooled (4:22) / H. Arlen -- Who do you kiss goodnight? / Jay Gorney (2:25) -- More and more / Jerome Kern (4:29) -- Let's forget tomorrow tonight / Maria Grever (2:31) -- If I only had / H. Arlen (4:25) -- Cause you won't play house / Morgan Lewis (3:07) -- An extra little shilling / Jule Styne (2:39) -- Brother! just laugh it off! / Ralph Rainger & Arthur Schwartz (2:31) -- Take my song / Igor Borganoff (3:10) -- Hot moonlight / J. Gorney (3:08) -- It's only a paper moon / H. Arlen (2:59) -- Brother, can you spare a dime? / J. Gorney (5:28) -- If every day were Valentine's Day / Sammy Fain (2:27) -- Thrill me / Lewis Gensler (3:36) -- Lydia, the tattooed lady / H. Arlen (3:27) -- Thank you Columbus (2:27) ; When I'm not near the girl I love (2:53) / Burton Lane -- Suddenly / Vernon Duke (3:02) -- Rainbow medley: Look to the rainbow / B. Lane ; I've got a rainbow working for me (early version) / J. Styne ; Over the rainbow / H. Arlen (9:08).

CD 1945

Come on and hear! : early songs by Irving Berlin, 1909-1915.

Everybody's doing it now (2:26) -- That's how I love you (1:56) -- When the midnight choo-choo leaves for Alabam' (2:57) -- Move over (1:57) -- Simple melody (3:49) -- At the devil's ball (first version) (1:28) -- At the devil's ball (final version) (1:27) -- The girl on the magazine (4:03) -- Piano solo : Alexander's Ragtime Band ; Alexander's Ragtime Band (song) (4:59) -- When it rains, sweetheart, when it rains (2:29) -- Settle down in a one horse town (2:43) -- Ragtime medley (4:12). Ragtime violin! ; That mysterious rag ; The international rag -- If all the girls I knew were like you (2:48) -- Stop! Look! Listen! (2:49) -- I want to go back to Michigan (Down on the farm) (2:53) -- That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune (2:57) -- Ragtime soldier man (3:23) -- The apple tree and the bumble bee (2:14) -- Spring and fall (2:00) -- I love a piano (4:27) -- They've got me doing it now (3:08).

CD 1949

Delishious / lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

Piano solo: Rialto ripples / Walter Donaldson, George Gershwin ; The real American folk song (is a rag) / George Gershwin (5:05) -- Do-do-do / Gershwin (2:15) -- Gotta have me go with you / Harold Arlen (1:48) -- Nice work if you can get it (2:25) ; Fidgety feet (1:25) / Gershwin -- I can't get started / Vernon Duke (3:14) -- Rice and shoes / Vincent Youmans (4:04) -- For the life of me / Arthur Schwartz (3:08) -- I'll build a stairway to paradise (2:12) ; Just to know you are mine (3:29) ; Blah, blah, blah (1:25) ; Blah, blah, blah (Russian version) (1:09) ; They can't take that away from me (3:57) / Gershwin -- Arthur Francis medley. You started something / Vincent Youmans ; Just like you / Paul Lannin ; When all your castles come tumbling down / Milton Schwarzwald ; Fascination / Louis Silvers ; Hot Hindoo / Lewis Gensler (8:58) -- Cheerful little earful / Harry Warren (1:55) -- The saga of Jenny / Kurt Weill (4:27) -- Long ago and far away / Jerome Kern (3:12) -- Younger generation / Aaron Copland -- (2:10) -- You're a builder upper / Harold Arlen (2:27) -- Who cares? (2:55) ; Just another rhumba (3:02) ; Love is here to stay (2:03) ; Delishious (3:36) / Gershwin.

CD 1948

Keep on smiling : songs by Irving Berlin, 1915-1918.

The circus is coming to town (2:27) -- Araby (4:32) -- I've got a sweet tooth bothering me (2:17) -- Until I fell in love with you (1:41) -- Cohen owes me ninety seven dollars (2:48) -- When I leave the world behind (2:41) -- Down where the jack o'lanterns grow (2:44) -- Polly pretty Polly (Polly with a past) (2:18) -- The eyes of youth see the truth (3:26) -- The sterling silver moon (1:30) -- While the band played an American rag (2:38) -- The voice of Belgium (3:18) -- The devil has bought up all the coal (2:04) -- They were all out of step but Jim (2:26) -- Smile and show your dimple (2:11) -- Dream on little soldier boy (4:02) -- When I get back to the U.S.A. (Bradford Conner, additional vocals) (3:49) -- I'm gonna pin my medal on the girl I left behind (3:24) -- Yip-yip-Yaphank medley. Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning ; Kitchen police (poor little me) ; (I can always find a little sunshine) In the Y.M.C.A. ; Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning) (5:51) -- We're on our way to France (Bradford Conner, Elbert Oxley, Charles Ricker, additional vocals) (2:07).

CD 1947

Songs by Irving Berlin, 1915-1918

The circus is coming to town (2:27) -- Araby (4:32) -- I've got a sweet tooth bothering me (2:17) -- Until I fell in love with you (1:41) -- Cohen owes me ninety seven dollars (2:48) -- When I leave the world behind (2:41) -- Down where the jack o'lanterns grow (2:44) -- Polly pretty Polly (Polly with a past) (2:18) -- The eyes of youth see the truth (3:26) -- The sterling silver moon (1:30) -- While the band played an American rag (2:38) -- The voice of Belgium (3:18) -- The devil has bought up all the coal (2:04) -- They were all out of step but Jim (2:26) -- Smile and show your dimple (2:11) -- Dream on little soldier boy (4:02) -- When I get back to the U.S.A. (Bradford Conner, additional vocals) (3:49) -- I'm gonna pin my medal on the girl I left behind (3:24) -- Yip-yip-Yaphank medley. Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning ; Kitchen police (poor little me) ; (I can always find a little sunshine) In the Y.M.C.A. ; Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning) (5:51) -- We're on our way to France (Bradford Conner, Elbert Oxley, Charles Ricker, additional vocals) (2:07).

CD 1947

Songs. Selections

The circus is coming to town (2:27) -- Araby (4:32) -- I've got a sweet tooth bothering me (2:17) -- Until I fell in love with you (1:41) -- Cohen owes me ninety seven dollars (2:48) -- When I leave the world behind (2:41) -- Down where the jack o'lanterns grow (2:44) -- Polly pretty Polly (Polly with a past) (2:18) -- The eyes of youth see the truth (3:26) -- The sterling silver moon (1:30) -- While the band played an American rag (2:38) -- The voice of Belgium (3:18) -- The devil has bought up all the coal (2:04) -- They were all out of step but Jim (2:26) -- Smile and show your dimple (2:11) -- Dream on little soldier boy (4:02) -- When I get back to the U.S.A. (Bradford Conner, additional vocals) (3:49) -- I'm gonna pin my medal on the girl I left behind (3:24) -- Yip-yip-Yaphank medley. Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning ; Kitchen police (poor little me) ; (I can always find a little sunshine) In the Y.M.C.A. ; Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning) (5:51) -- We're on our way to France (Bradford Conner, Elbert Oxley, Charles Ricker, additional vocals) (2:07).

CD 1947

Songs. Selections

Everybody's doing it now (2:26) -- That's how I love you (1:56) -- When the midnight choo-choo leaves for Alabam' (2:57) -- Move over (1:57) -- Simple melody (3:49) -- At the devil's ball (first version) (1:28) -- At the devil's ball (final version) (1:27) -- The girl on the magazine (4:03) -- Piano solo : Alexander's Ragtime Band ; Alexander's Ragtime Band (song) (4:59) -- When it rains, sweetheart, when it rains (2:29) -- Settle down in a one horse town (2:43) -- Ragtime medley (4:12). Ragtime violin! ; That mysterious rag ; The international rag -- If all the girls I knew were like you (2:48) -- Stop! Look! Listen! (2:49) -- I want to go back to Michigan (Down on the farm) (2:53) -- That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune (2:57) -- Ragtime soldier man (3:23) -- The apple tree and the bumble bee (2:14) -- Spring and fall (2:00) -- I love a piano (4:27) -- They've got me doing it now (3:08).

CD 1949

Sweet and low-down : songs / by George Gershwin.

Sweet & low-down (2:16) -- Midnight bells (2:39) -- There's more to the kiss than the X-X-X (2:30) -- Love is sweeping the country (3:06) -- Somebody loves me (3:01) -- That lost barber shop chord (2:47) -- By Strauss (1:33) -- Lady, be good! medley. Little jazz bird ; The half of it, Dearie, blues ; Oh, lady be good! (alternate lyrics) (6:37) -- You & I (in old Versailles) (3:06) -- She hangs out in our alley (1:02) -- Across the sea (1:16) -- Princess medley. Promenade (Walking the dog) (piano solo). We're pals (4:45) -- When you want 'em, you can't get 'em, when you've got 'em, you don't want 'em (3:29) -- Liza (All the clouds'll roll away (4:04) -- Isn't it horrible what they did to Mary, Queen of Scots (2:55) ; (Encore) (1:18) -- A foggy day (2:41) -- Pepita (4:03) -- Swanee (3:21) -- Mine (4:14) -- Strike up the band (2:09) -- Love is here to stay (2:17).

CD 1946

Vocal music. Selections

Sweet & low-down (2:16) -- Midnight bells (2:39) -- There's more to the kiss than the X-X-X (2:30) -- Love is sweeping the country (3:06) -- Somebody loves me (3:01) -- That lost barber shop chord (2:47) -- By Strauss (1:33) -- Lady, be good! medley. Little jazz bird ; The half of it, Dearie, blues ; Oh, lady be good! (alternate lyrics) (6:37) -- You & I (in old Versailles) (3:06) -- She hangs out in our alley (1:02) -- Across the sea (1:16) -- Princess medley. Promenade (Walking the dog) (piano solo). We're pals (4:45) -- When you want 'em, you can't get 'em, when you've got 'em, you don't want 'em (3:29) -- Liza (All the clouds'll roll away (4:04) -- Isn't it horrible what they did to Mary, Queen of Scots (2:55) ; (Encore) (1:18) -- A foggy day (2:41) -- Pepita (4:03) -- Swanee (3:21) -- Mine (4:14) -- Strike up the band (2:09) -- Love is here to stay (2:17).

CD 1946