Irving Berlin: All by Myself

Audiophile ACD-21

Irving Berlin
All by Myself

"It is much more difficult for me to write successes now because people expect so much from me on account of my previous hits." Irving Berlin said that to an interviewer in 1919 - on the eve of the greatest productivity and successes ever known to a songwriter. That's the period covered in this two-CD set...

Personnel

The Rusty Dedrick Orchestra featuring Bob Wilber clarinet + soprano saxophone, Lou McGarity trombone, Morty Lewis tenor saxophone + flute, Rusty Dedrick trumpet + flugelhorn, Roy Cohen piano, Barry Galbraith guitar, George Duvivier bass, Don Lamond drums.

Selections - Disc One 1921-1927

1 All by Myself
- with Steve Clayton
2 Everybody Step
- with Annette Sanders
3 Say It With Music
- with The Jack Manno Singers
4 Some Sunny Day
- Instrumental
5 Crinoline Days
- with Steve Clayton
6 Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil
- with Annette Sanders
7 Lady of the Evening
- with The Jack Manno Singers
8 An Orange Grove in California
- with Steve Clayton
9 All Alone/What'll I Do?
- with Annette Sanders/Steve Clayton
10 Tell Her in the Springtime
- with The Jack Manno Singers
11 Lazy
- with Annette Sanders
12 Always
- with Steve Clayton
13 Remember
- with Annette Sanders
14 How Many Times?
- with The Jack Manno Singers
15 We'll Never Know
- with Annette Sanders
16 Russian Lullaby
- with Steve Clayton
17 Together We Two
- with The Jack Manno Singers
18 Blue Skies
- with Annette Sanders
19 It Always Belongs to Me/It's Up the Band/Rainbow or Girls/Shaking the Blues Away
- with Steve Clayton/Annette Sanders/The Jack Manno Singers/Annette Sanders
20 The Song Is Ended
- with The Jack Manno Singers

Selections - Disc Two 1928-1933

1 Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
- with Steve Clayton
2 Roses or Yesterday
- with The Jack Manno Singers
3 How About Me?
- with Annette Sanders
4 Marie/Coquette
- with The Jack Manno Singers
5 With You
- with Steve Clayton
6 Puttin' on the Ritz
- Instrumental
7 Reaching for the Sun
- with Annette Sanders
8 Waiting at the End of the Road
- with The Jack Manno Singers
9 The Little Things in Life
- Instrumental
10 Begging for Love
- with Steve Clayton
11 I Say It's Spinach/Let's Have Another Cup o' Coffee/On a Roof in Manhattan
- with Annette Sanders/Steve Clayton/The Jack Manno Singers
12 Say It Isn't So/How Deep Is the Ocean?
- with Annette Sanders/Steve Clayton
13 I Can't Remember
- with Steve Clayton/The Jack Manno Singers
14 I'm Playing with Fire
- with Annette Sanders
15 Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much
- with Steve Clayton
16 Harlem on My Mind
- Instrumental
17 Not for All the Rice in China
- with The Jack Manno Singers
18 How's Chances?
- with Steve Clayton
19 Heat Wave
- with The Jack Manno Singers
20 Supper Time
- with Annette Sanders
21 Easter Parade
- with The Jack Manno Singers

Monmouth-Evergreen Producers: Bill Borden and Steve Marvin
Musical direction and arrangements: Rusty Dedrick
Choral arrangements: Jack Manno
Art Director: Chet Kadish
Executive Producer: George Buck
Production Coordinator: Wendell Echols
Special thanks to Max Preeo of Show Music magazine
Year Released: 2001

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