TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

The First Book of Songs 1952-59
1 Nat King Cole – Once in a Blue Moon
2 Patti Page – Keep Me In Mind
3 Mel Torme – These Desperate Hours
4 Sherry Parsons – Peggy’s In The Pantry
5 The Gallahads – The Morning Mail
6 Alan Dale – I Cry More
7 June Valli – Beauty Isn’t Everything
8 Della Reese – How About?
9 Johnny Mathis – Warm And Tender
10 Jo Stafford – Underneath The Overpass
11 Marty Robbins – The Story Of My Life
12 Michael Holliday – The Story Of My Life
13 Jerry Lewis – Sad Sack
14 Gale Storm – Winter Warm
15 Peggy Lee – Uninvited Dream
16 Bob Manning – Love Bank
17 Perry Como – Magic Moments
18 The Four Preps – Humble Pie
19 Bernie Nee – Country Music Holiday
20 Patti Page – Another Time, Another Place
21 Margaret Whiting – Hot Spell
22 Mary Mayo – It Seemed So Right Last Night
23 Marty Robbins – Sitting in a Tree House
24 Tony Bennett – The Night That Heaven Fell
25 The Five Blobs – The Blob
26 The Four Coins – Wendy Wendy
27 Marty Robbins – The Last Time I Saw My Heart
28 Sonny James – Dream Big
29 Steve Lawrence – Loving Is A Way Of Giving
30 Jack Jones – Make Room For The Joy
31 Four Aces – Paradise Island
32 Burt Bacharach – Searching Wind
33 Burt Bacharach – Rosanne

DISC TWO

Long Ago Last Summer 1959-61
1 Gloria Lambert – Moon Man
2 John Ashley – The Hangman
3 Jane Morgan – With Open Arms
4 Johnny Mathis – Heavenly
5 The Eligibles – Faker Faker
6 Gene McDaniels – In Times Like These
7 Johnny Mathis – Faithfully
8 Larry Hall – A Girl Like You
9 Rosemary June – Your Lips Are Warmer Than Your Heart
10 Paul Hampton – Two Hour Honeymoon
11 Paul Hampton – Creams
12 The Avons – You’re Only Young Once (Yeh Yeh Yeh)
13 Keely Smith – Close
14 Charlie Gracie – I Looked for you
15 Diana Trask – Long Ago Last Summer
16 Everit Herter – Boys Were Made For Girls
17 Rusty Draper – Ten Thousand Years Ago
18 The Wanderers – I Could Make You Mine
19 Buddy Clinton – Joanie’s Forever
20 Dick Van Dyke – Three Wheels On My Wagon
21 Frankie Avalon – Gotta Get a Girl
22 Connie Stevens – And This Is Mine
23 The Turbans – Three Friends (Two Lovers)
24 The Rangoons – Moon Guitar
25 The Drifters – (Don’t Go) Please Stay
26 Tommy Sands – Love In A Goldfish Bowl
27 Chuck Jackson – I Wake Up Crying
28 Del Shannon – The Answer To Everything
29 The Shepherd Sisters – Deeply
30 Gloria Lynne – You Don’t Have To Be A Tower Of Strength
31 The Four Coins – The Miracle Of St. Marie
32 The Shirelles – Baby It’s You

DISC THREE

Make It Easy On Yourself 1962
1 Jerry Butler – Make It Easy On Yourself
2 Sophia Loren – Donne Moi Ma Chance
3 Jack Jones – Dreamin’ All The Time
4 Jack Jones – Pick Up The Pieces
5 The Four Coins –
The Windows Of Heaven
6 Gene McDaniels – Another Tear Falls
7 The Drifters – Mexican Divorce
8 Etta James – Waiting For Charlie To Come Home
9 Jane Morgan – Forever My Love
10 Gene Pitney – (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
11 The Fairmount Singers – (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
12 The Exotics – Manpower
13 Chuck Jackson – Any Day Now (My Wild And Beautiful Bird)
14 Babs Tino – Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time)
15 Timi Yuro – The Love Of A Boy
16 Andy Williams – Don’t You Believe It
17 Gene Pitney – Only Love Can Break a Heart
18 Gene Pitney – Little Betty Falling Star
19 Tommy Hunt – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
20 Tommy Hunt – Don’t Make Me Over
21 The Shirelles – It’s Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run)
22 Jimmy Radcliffe-(There Goes)The Forgotten Man
23 Helen Shapiro – Keep Away From Other Girls
24 Dionne Warwick – Don’t Make Me Over
25 Dionne Warwick – I Smiled Yesterday
26 Joey Powers – Don’t Envy Me
27 Bobby Vee – Anonymous Phone Call
28 Paul Evans – The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle
29 Marlene Dietrich – Kleine Treue Nachtigall (Small True Nightingale)
30 Marlene Dietrich – Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind (Where Have All The Flowers Gone)

DISC FOUR

Burt Bacharach / Influences and Inspirations
1 Mel Torme – The Christmas Song
2 Claude Debussy – Reflets dans l’eau from Images Pour Piano Book 1 – Marcelle Meyer (piano)
Maurice Ravel – Daphnis & Chloe – No
2 15.39
3 Lever Du Jour
4 Pantomime
5 Danse Générale – Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray
Darius Milhaud – from Saudades do Brasil
6 Overture
7 Soracaba
8 Botafogo
9 Corcovado – Concert Arts Orchestra / Darius Milhaud
10 Bohuslav Martinů – Parable Of A Sculpture. Andante Pastorale from The Parables – Czech Philharmonic / Karel Ančerl
11 Henry Cowell – Intro to The Tides Of Manaunaun
12 Henry Cowell – Tides Of Manaunaun
13 Arnold Schoenberg – Mondestrunken (Moonstruck) from Pierrot Lunaire – Jeanne Héricard (soprano) / Hans Rosbaud
14 Alban Berg – Allegro misterioso from Lyric Suite Juilliard String Quartet
15 Anton Webern – Langsam, Marcia funebre (Funeral March) from 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op 6
SWR Baden-Baden / Hans Rosbaud
16 Leonard Bernstein – Masque from The Age of Anxiety – Lukas Foss (piano) New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
17 Gil Evans Orchestra – La Nevada
18 Tadd Dameron – Fontainebleau
19 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – An Oscar for Treadwell
20 Count Basie – April in Paris
21 Agostinho Dos Santos and Roberto Menescal – A Felicidade (from Black Orpheus)