Description / My Opinion
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Amazon.com - Ordered 04.28.2000 - Shipped 06.02.2000 - Received 06.23.2000 The booklet contains four big color pictures of George, three 'at home' styled, and one 'I'm a killer' one (the back of the jewel box is also a big 'I'm a killer' color picture of him), somehow as the cover picture is. There is also a quarter page text by him (nothing spectacular here). Songs arranged and conducted by Martin Yates. Personally, I found all these pictures rather pretentious. I was expecting something very boring, and not surprising at all. I already had heard George in Leading Men Don't Dance but didn't notice him particularly among the other singers. Well, I was very surprised indeed. It's really not a musical recording. It's a "crooner" rendition of musical numbers, and I must admit it's quite well done and not boring at all. All songs have been nicely arranged by Martin Yates to fit the style, and they all construct a consistent album. A pretty nice recording which, if not purely a Musical is enjoyable if you like the style. By the way, this doesn't lower my feeling that the booklet reflects a rather pretentious personality, with all these pictures of himself and George's own web site (but who doesn't have one ?) but maybe I'm wrong. It probably could have been better, but the recording compensates that feeling.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 4:08 | Night And Day The Gay Divorce Author: Cole Porter | |
| 2 | 4:45 | The Way You Look Tonight Swing Time Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Dorothy Fields | |
| 3 | 4:55 | Long Ago And Far Away Cover Girl Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Ira Gershwin | |
| 4 | 3:45 | Let's Begin Roberta Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Otto Harbach | |
| 5 | 3:17 | I Love Paris Can-Can Author: Cole Porter | |
| 6 | 4:44 | It's All Right With Me Can-Can Author: Cole Porter | |
| 7 | 2:59 | I'm Old Fashioned You Were Never Lovelier Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Johnny Mercer | |
| 8 | 4:17 | The Folks Who Live On The Hill High Wide And Handsome Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein,II | |
| 9 | 3:24 | You Were Never Lovelier You Were Never Lovelier Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Johnny Mercer | |
| 10 | 3:19 | You Do Something To Me Fifty Million Frenchmen Author: Cole Porter | |
| 11 | 3:15 | Allez-Vous-En Can-Can Author: Cole Porter | |
| 12 | 5:15 | The Last Time I Saw Paris Lady Be Good Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein,II | |
| 13 | 4:01 | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Roberta Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Otto Harbach | |
| 14 | 2:59 | I Concentrate On You Broadway Melody Of 1940 Author: Cole Porter | |
| 15 | 4:15 | Just One Of Those Things Jubilee Author: Cole Porter | |
| 16 | 5:14 | In The Still Of The Night Rosalie Author: Cole Porter | |
The Cast
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| | Main Performer | George Dvorsky |
Interesting Links
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| | George's own web page.
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