Drawing from Verve's acclaimed Songbook series, this 3-CD set presents 48 tracks composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. A few highlights: Thou Swell Joe Williams; Mountain Greenery Bing Crosby; I Could Write a Book Sarah Vaughan; the Lady Is a Tramp Ella Fitzgerald; I Wish I Were in Love Again Tony Bennett; My Funny Valentine Ben Webster; You Took Advantage of Me Billie Holiday; Have You Met Miss Jones? Louis Armstrong; Manhattan Blossom Dearie, and more.
1) Thou Swell - Joe Williams
2) This Can't Be Love - Shirley Horn
3) I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Anita O'Day
4) Have You Met Miss Jones? - Louis Armstrong
5) Manhattan - Blossom Dearie
6) I Could Write a Book - Dinah Washington
7) My Funny Valentine - Sarah Vaughan
8) Blue Moon - Mel Torme
9) A Ship Without a Sail - Ella Fitzgerald
10) Mountain Greenery - Bing Crosby
11) You Took Advantage of Me - Billie Holiday
12) Ten Cents a Dance - Frank Morgan Quartet
13) Falling in Love with Love - Helen Merrill
14) It Never Entered My Mind - Sarah Vaughan
15) Little Girl Blue - Nina Simone
16) The Lady Is a Tramp - Ella Fitzgerald
17) Lover - Anita O'Day
18) Mountain Greenery - Tony Bennett
19) My Heart Stood Still - Sarah Vaughan
20) Ev'rything I've Got - Blossom Dearie
21) Blue Moon - Billie Holiday
22) The Blue Room - Bing Crosby
23) I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Cassandra Wilson
24) Bewitched - Ella Fitzgerald
25) My Funny Valentine - Arthur Prysock
26) To Keep My Love Alive - Blossom Dearie
27) He Was Too Good to Me - Helen Merrill
28) There's a Small Hotel - Billy Eckstine
29) My Romance - Sarah Vaughan
30) It's Easy to Remember - Shirley Horn
31) Isn't It Romantic? - Ella Fitzgerald
32) I Wish I Were in Love Again - Tony Bennett
33) Isn't It Romantic? - Shirley Horn
34) Little Girl Blue - Stan Getz
35) Lover - Max Roach
36) It Never Entered My Mind - Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster
37) You Took Advantage of Me - Art Tatum
38) With a Song in My Heart - Bill Evans
39) Where or When - Clifford Brown and Max Roach
40) My Funny Valentine - Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson
41) You Are Too Beautiful - Sonny Rollins
42) There's a Small Hotel - Erroll Garner
43) I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Charlie Parker
44) Spring Is Here - Stephen Scott
45) The Lady Is a Tramp - Gerry Mulligan
46) Bewitched - Benny Carter and Oscar Peterson
47) My Funny Valentine - Ben Webster
48) I Wish I Were in Love Again