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{{Infobox album
{{Unreferenced|date=July 2011}}
| name = Everything I Have Is Yours
'''''Everything I Have Is Yours''''' is a [[1994 in music|1994]] compilation album of songs by [[Billy Eckstine]], subtitled "The Best of the M-G-M Years". It was released by [[Verve Records]] and has two discs.
| type = compilation
| artist = [[Billy Eckstine]]
| cover = Everything I Have Is Yours Billy Eckstine Album Cover.png
| alt =
| released = March 7, 1991
| recorded = May 20, 1947 – April 26, 1957
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 2:12:58
| label = [[Verve Records|Verve]]
| producer =
*[[Bob Porter (record producer)|Bob Porter]]
*Richard Seidel
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
'''''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]].<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |title=Billy Eckstine Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best of the M-G-M Years |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/everything-i-have-is-yours-the-best-of-the-m-g-m-years-mw0000312617 |website=AllMusic |access-date=14 September 2021}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="allmusic" />
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2007 |pages=885 }}</ref>
}}
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."<ref name="allmusic" />

[[Max Morath]], author of ''The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards'', listed the album as among "Billy's Best," calling it "fine."<ref>{{cite book |last=Morath |first=Max |title=The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards |publisher=Penguin |year=2002 }}</ref>


== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
{{track listing
| headline = Disc One


| title1 = [[Everything I Have Is Yours (song)|Everything I Have Is Yours]]
=== Disc one ===
| writer1 = [[Harold Adamson]], [[Burton Lane]]
| length1 = 3:13


| title2 = [[Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)]]
# "[[Everything I Have Is Yours (song)|Everything I Have Is Yours]]"
| writer2 = [[Rube Bloom]], [[Johnny Mercer]]
# "[[Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)]]"
| length2 = 2:59
# "[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]"
# "Mr. B's Blues"
# "[[Temptation (1933 song)|Temptation]]"
# "Somehow"
# "Caravan"
# "Bewildered"
# "[[Body and Soul (song)|Body and Soul]]"
# "[[My Foolish Heart (song)|My Foolish Heart]]"
# "Ev'ryday (I Fall In Love)"
# "[[I Love You (Cole Porter song)|I Love You]]"
# "Dedicated to You"
# "You're All I Need"
# "[[I Wanna Be Loved]]"
# "You've Got Me Crying Again"
# "[[I've Never Been In Love Before]]"
# "[[I Apologize (1931 song)|I Apologize]]"
# "As Long As I Live"
# "I Left My Hat In Haiti"


| title3 = [[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]
=== Disc two ===
| writer3 = [[Lorenz Hart]], [[Richard Rodgers]]
| length3 = 3:11


# "Here Comes the Blues"
| title4 = Mr. B's Blues
| writer4 = Billy Eckstine
# "[[Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries]]"
| length4 = 2:28
# "[[Wonder Why (song)|Wonder Why]]"

# "I'm a Fool to Want You"
| title5 = [[Temptation (1933 song)|Temptation]]
# "[[Taking a Chance on Love]]"
| writer5 = [[Nacio Herb Brown]], [[Arthur Freed]]
# "[[You're Driving Me Crazy]]"
| length5 = 2:54
# "[[Early Autumn (song)|Early Autumn]]"

# "[[Tenderly]]"
| title6 = Somehow
# "[[One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)]]"
| writer6 = [[Mort Maser]]
# "[[If You Could See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]]"
| length6 = 3:13
# "[[Smoke Gets In Your Eyes]]"

# "[[Laura (1945 song)|Laura]]"
| title7 = Caravan
# "Mister You've Gone And Got the Blues"
| writer7 = [[Duke Ellington]], [[Irving Mills]], [[Juan Tizol]]
# "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)"
| length7 = 2:50
# "[[April in Paris (song)|April in Paris]]"

# "Coquette"
| title8 = Bewildered
# "Send My Baby Back to Me"
| writer8 = [[Teddy Powell]], [[Leonard Whitcup]]
# "[[How High the Moon]]"
| length8 = 3:13
# "[[St. Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]"

# "[[Don't Get Around Much Anymore]]"
| title9 = [[Body and Soul (song)|Body and Soul]]
# "Lost in Loveliness"
| writer9 = [[Frank Eyton]], [[Johnny Green]], [[Edward Heyman]], [[Robert Sour]]
# "[[Passing Strangers (1957 song)|Passing Strangers]]"
| length9 = 2:54

| title10 = [[My Foolish Heart (song)|My Foolish Heart]]
| writer10 = [[Ned Washington]], [[Victor Young]]
| length10 = 3:03

| title11 = Ev'ryday (I Fall In Love)
| writer11 = [[Sammy Fain]], [[Irving Kahal]]
| length11 = 2:57

| title12 = [[I Love You (Cole Porter song)|I Love You]]
| writer12 = [[Cole Porter]]
| length12 = 2:39

| title13 = Dedicated to You
| writer13 = [[Sammy Cahn]], [[Saul Chaplin]], [[Hy Zaret]]
| length13 = 2:44

| title14 = You're All I Need
| writer14 = [[Walter Jurmann]], [[Gus Kahn]], [[Bronislaw Kaper]]
| length14 = 3:05

| title15 = [[I Wanna Be Loved]]
| writer15 = [[Johnny Green]], [[Edward Heyman]], [[Billy Rose]]
| length15 = 2:56

| title16 = You've Got Me Crying Again
| writer16 = [[Isham Jones]], Charles Newman
| length16 = 3:28

| title17 = [[I've Never Been In Love Before]]
| writer17 = [[Frank Loesser]]
| length17 = 3:01

| title18 = [[I Apologize (1931 song)|I Apologize]]"
| writer18 = [[Al Goodhart]], [[Al Hoffman]], [[Ed G. Nelson]]
| length18 = 2:52

| title19 = As Long As I Live
| writer19 = [[Harold Arlen]], [[Ted Koehler]]
| length19 = 2:48

| title20 = I Left My Hat In Haiti
| writer20 = [[Burton Lane]], [[Alan Jay Lerner]]
| length20 = 2:41
}}

{{track listing
| headline = Disc Two

| title1 = Here Comes the Blues
| writer1 = [[Wynonie Harris]], [[Illinois Jacquet]]
| length1 = 3:09

| title2 = [[Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries]]
| writer2 = [[Lew Brown]], [[Ray Henderson]]
| length2 = 2:43

| title3 = [[Wonder Why (song)|Wonder Why]]
| writer3 = [[Nicholas Brodszky]], [[Sammy Cahn]]
| length3 = 2:53

| title4 = I'm a Fool to Want You
| writer4 = [[Joel Herron]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Jack Wolf]]
| length4 = 3:07

| title5 = [[Taking a Chance on Love]]
| writer5 = [[Vernon Duke]], [[Ted Fetter]], [[John La Touche (lyricist)|John Latouche]]
| length5 = 2:38

| title6 = [[You're Driving Me Crazy]]
| writer6 = [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
| length6 = 3:08

| title7 = [[Early Autumn (song)|Early Autumn]]
| writer7 = [[Ralph Burns]], [[Woody Herman]], [[Johnny Mercer]]
| length7 = 3:18

| title8 = [[Tenderly]]
| writer8 = [[Walter Gross (musician)|Walter Gross]], [[Jack Lawrence (songwriter)|Jack Lawrence]]
| length8 = 3:42

| title9 = [[One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)]]
| writer9 = [[Harold Arlen]], Johnny Mercer
| length9 = 3:37

| title10 = [[If You Could See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]]
| writer10 = [[Tadd Dameron]], [[Carl Sigman]]
| length10 = 3:24

| title11 = [[Smoke Gets In Your Eyes]]
| writer11 = [[Otto Harbach]], [[Jerome Kern]]
| length11 = 3:42

| title12 = [[Laura (1945 song)|Laura]]
| writer12 = Johnny Mercer, [[David Raksin]]
| length12 = 3:16

| title13 = Mister You've Gone And Got the Blues
| writer13 = Billy Eckstine, [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]]
| length13 = 3:31

| title14 = Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
| writer14 = [[Harold Arlen]], [[Ted Koehler]]
| length14 = 3:38

| title15 = [[April in Paris (song)|April in Paris]]
| writer15 = [[Vernon Duke]], [[Yip Harburg]]
| length15 = 3:06

| title16 = Coquette
| writer16 = [[Johnny Green]], [[Gus Kahn]], [[Carmen Lombardo]]
| length16 = 3:07

| title17 = Send My Baby Back to Me
| writer17 = [[Milton Delugg]], [[Bob Hilliard]]
| length17 = 2:56

| title18 = [[How High the Moon]]
| writer18 = [[Nancy Hamilton]], [[Morgan Lewis (songwriter)|Morgan Lewis]]
| length18 = 5:20

| title19 = [[St. Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]
| writer19 = [[W.C. Handy]]
| length19 = 6:18

| title20 = [[Don't Get Around Much Anymore]]
| writer20 = Duke Ellington, Bob Russell
| length20 = 2:31

| title21 = Lost in Loveliness
| writer21 = [[Leo Robin]], [[Sigmund Romberg]]
| length21 = 2:57

| title22 = [[Passing Strangers (1957 song)|Passing Strangers]]
| writer22 = [[Barry Mann]], [[Rita Mann]], [[Sidney Mitchell]]
| length22 = 2:38
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}


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[[Category:1994 compilation albums]]
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Latest revision as of 16:25, 10 June 2024

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

[edit]
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

[edit]
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

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Billy Eckstine Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best of the M-G-M Years". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 September 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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