Bobby Short Celebrates Rodgers & Hart

by Bobby Short

Overview

Bobby Short is the Frank Sinatra of the supper clubs. Like Sinatra, Short is a consummate entertainer, a true professional. But the distance between Caesar's Palace and the Cafe Carlyle is approximately equal to the distance between Hoboken and uptown Manhattan, and Short's style is absolutely uptown. He has none of the hardscrabble swagger that infused Sinatra's work with pathos. If ever there was a time when Bobby Short was not invited to all the right parties, he doesn't let on, not for a note. The complete absence of angst makes Bobby Short Celebrates Rodgers & Hart easy listening indeed, but in the most wonderful way. His voice is unruffled and mellifluous, his phrasing spirited without ever being quite over the top. His articulation of Lorenz Hart's superb lyrics rests upon his witty and urbane piano playing like a marcelled starlet draped across a chaise lounge. His music is lovely without being too sweet, coquettish without being coarse, droll without being camp. Debonair, cosmopolitan and utterly self-possessed, Bobby Short is the just the man for the classic show tunes of Rodgers & Hart. Throughout this recording, he sustains a fantasy of New York that exists only on the big screen, and only in black and white. The national anthem of this magical dreamland is the "Hollywood Party" medley. This song is itself a delightful little movie -- a rousing start; drama, action, and intrigue in the middle; culminating in one big, big finale. ~ Jessica Jernigan

Product Details

Release Date:	11/01/1994
Label:	Atlantic / Atlantic/Wea
UPC:	0075678132025
Rank:	80022

Tracks

1. On Your Toes
2. Medley: Hollywood Party No. 1/Hollywood Party No. 2
3. You Mustn't Kick It Around
4. Where or When
5. Have You Met Miss Jones?
6. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
7. Johnny One Note
8. With a Song in My Heart
9. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
10. My Romance
11. Wait Till You See Her
12. There's a Small Hotel
13. Soon
14. Spring Is Here
15. Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
16. Glad to Be Unhappy
17. I Still Believe in You
18. Nobody's Heart
19. You're What I Need
20. No Place but Home
21. You Took Advantage of Me
22. It's Got to Be Love
23. Isn't It Romantic?
24. Ev'rything I've Got
25. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
26. I Wish I Were in Love Again

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bobby Short   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Beverly Peer   Bass
Richard Sheridan   Percussion,Drums

Technical Credits

Bob Defrin   Art Direction
Richard Rodgers   Composer
George Piros   Engineer,Mastering
Jimmy Iovine   Engineer
Lewis Hahn   Remixing,Producer,Engineer
Horst P. Horst   Photography
Bobby Short   Liner Notes
Lorenz Hart   Composer