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RICHARD RODGERS
(1902-1979)
1.
It might as well be spring
3:12
Words: Oscar Hammerstein II
JACKIE TRENT
(b. 1940)
2.
Don't sleep in the subway
3:18
Words: Tony Hatch
JIMMY VAN HEUSEN
(1913-1990)
3.
Get rid of Monday
2:37
Words: Johnny Burke
GEORGE GERSHWIN
4.
Someone to watch over me
4:16
Words: Ira Gershwin
MATT DENNIS
(1914-2002)
5.
Angel eyes
4:10
Words: Tom Adair
TOMMY WOLF
(1925-1979)
6.
Spring can really hang you up the most
5:01
Words: Fran Landesman
CY COLEMAN
(1929-2004)
7.
Let me down easy
4:02
Words: Carolyn Leigh
JEROME KERN
(1885-1945)
8.
I won't dance
2:57
Words: Dorothy Fields
JULE STYNE
(1905-1994)
9.
Killing time
3:00
Words: Carolyn Leigh
GEORGE GERSHWIN
10.
How long has this been going on?
4:23
Words: Ira Gershwin
CY COLEMAN
11.
On second thought
3:56
Words: Carolyn Leigh
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
(b. 1936)
12.
Early to bed
3:07
Words: Franklin Underwood
WILLARD ROBISON
(1894-1968)
13.
Wake up, chill'un, wake up
3:45
Words: Jo Trent
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
14.
Goodbye for now
3:27
Words: Charles Hart
15.
Words and Music
2:32
Words: Richard Rodney Bennett
53:52
Solo:Sir Richard Rodney Bennett vocals and piano
19 and 20 July 2006
Notes
Rodney Bennett: Words and Music Richard Rodney Bennett for the first time has recorded an appealing selection of American popular songs in his own cabaret style singing at the piano. Including such favourites as Someone to watch over me and How long has this been going on the listener will be moved by the lyric and plaintive quality of Richards voice. This collection of pieces from the 30’s and 40’s are all arranged by Richard in his own intimate and romantic way bringing these wonderful songs a new life.
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You wouldn’t exactly have expected to find Sir Michael Tippett recording a cabaret programme but Sir Richard Rodney Bennett with his long-time love of jazz, has never been content to play the conventional ‘great composer’. His light, husky voice and cool piano conjure up exactly the right late-night atmosphere, heavy with stale smoke, second-hand drink and occasional maudlin disillusion. Many of the songs here, such as the impish ‘Early to bed’, are his own, laid-back and wry, with wittily Wodehouseian lyrics. They sit easily alongside oldies like ‘It might as well be spring’ and Someone to watch over me’, delivered in his own deceptively casual manner; his haunting take on ‘Don’t sleep in the subway’ reveals depths unplumbed by Petula Clarke. After the elegiac ‘Goodbye for now’, the title track’s vision of Sloaney ladies straying into (one imagines) Ronnie Scott’s makes a malevolently funny coda to a highly enjoyable session.
BBC Music Magazine ‘Choice’
This Noel Cowardish poison-pen clerihew is absolutely irresistible and must be heard to be believed. In both departments of his musical activities, as composer or performer, Chandos has done Bennett proud. Further volumes in either series will be something to look forward to.
Fanfare
What was important was to acknowledge that the finely crafted marriage of words and music that flourished in the thirties and forties – indeed the golden age of American popular song – simply aren’t period pieces, not when a Richard Rodney Bennett is around to pick them up, dust them off and allow their magic to start all over again.
Glasgow Herald
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