Everything I Have Is Yours (album)

Everything I Have Is Yours
Compilation album by
Billy Eckstine
ReleasedMarch 7, 1991
RecordedMay 20, 1947 – April 26, 1957
Length2:12:58
LabelVerve
Producer

Everything I Have Is Yours is a 1991 compilation album of songs by Billy Eckstine, subtitled "The Best of the M-G-M Years". It was released by Verve Records as a double LP.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

The editors of AllMusic awarded the album a full five stars, and Scott Yanow wrote: "Although not as essential from the jazz standpoint as Billy Eckstine's earlier big-band dates, this two-fer features the singer at the peak of his powers."[1]

Max Morath, author of The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards, listed the album as among "Billy's Best," calling it "fine."[3]

Track listing

Disc One
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Everything I Have Is Yours"Harold Adamson, Burton Lane3:13
2."Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer2:59
3."Blue Moon"Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers3:11
4."Mr. B's Blues"Billy Eckstine2:28
5."Temptation"Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed2:54
6."Somehow"Mort Maser3:13
7."Caravan"Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol2:50
8."Bewildered"Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup3:13
9."Body and Soul"Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour2:54
10."My Foolish Heart"Ned Washington, Victor Young3:03
11."Ev'ryday (I Fall In Love)"Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal2:57
12."I Love You"Cole Porter2:39
13."Dedicated to You"Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Hy Zaret2:44
14."You're All I Need"Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper3:05
15."I Wanna Be Loved"Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Billy Rose2:56
16."You've Got Me Crying Again"Isham Jones, Charles Newman3:28
17."I've Never Been In Love Before"Frank Loesser3:01
18."I Apologize""Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman, Ed G. Nelson2:52
19."As Long As I Live"Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler2:48
20."I Left My Hat In Haiti"Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner2:41
Disc Two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Here Comes the Blues"Wynonie Harris, Illinois Jacquet3:09
2."Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"Lew Brown, Ray Henderson2:43
3."Wonder Why"Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn2:53
4."I'm a Fool to Want You"Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf3:07
5."Taking a Chance on Love"Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche2:38
6."You're Driving Me Crazy"Walter Donaldson3:08
7."Early Autumn"Ralph Burns, Woody Herman, Johnny Mercer3:18
8."Tenderly"Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence3:42
9."One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)"Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer3:37
10."If You Could See Me Now"Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman3:24
11."Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern3:42
12."Laura"Johnny Mercer, David Raksin3:16
13."Mister You've Gone And Got the Blues"Billy Eckstine, Bob Russell3:31
14."Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)"Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler3:38
15."April in Paris"Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg3:06
16."Coquette"Johnny Green, Gus Kahn, Carmen Lombardo3:07
17."Send My Baby Back to Me"Milton Delugg, Bob Hilliard2:56
18."How High the Moon"Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis5:20
19."St. Louis Blues"W.C. Handy6:18
20."Don't Get Around Much Anymore"Duke Ellington, Bob Russell2:31
21."Lost in Loveliness"Leo Robin, Sigmund Romberg2:57
22."Passing Strangers"Barry Mann, Rita Mann, Sidney Mitchell2:38

References

  1. ^ a b c "Billy Eckstine Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best of the M-G-M Years". AllMusic. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 885.
  3. ^ Morath, Max (2002). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards. Penguin.
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