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1991 compilation album by Billy Eckstine
Everything I Have Is Yours Released March 7, 1991 Recorded May 20, 1947 – April 26, 1957 Length 2 :12 :58 Label Verve 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]
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]
Disc One Title Writer(s) 1. "Everything I Have Is Yours " Harold Adamson , Burton Lane 3:13 2. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) " Rube Bloom , Johnny Mercer 2:59 3. "Blue Moon " Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers 3:11 4. "Mr. B's Blues" Billy Eckstine 2:28 5. "Temptation " Nacio Herb Brown , Arthur Freed 2:54 6. "Somehow" Mort Maser 3:13 7. "Caravan" Duke Ellington , Irving Mills , Juan Tizol 2:50 8. "Bewildered" Teddy Powell , Leonard Whitcup 3:13 9. "Body and Soul " Frank Eyton , Johnny Green , Edward Heyman , Robert Sour 2:54 10. "My Foolish Heart " Ned Washington , Victor Young 3:03 11. "Ev'ryday (I Fall In Love)" Sammy Fain , Irving Kahal 2:57 12. "I Love You " Cole Porter 2:39 13. "Dedicated to You" Sammy Cahn , Saul Chaplin , Hy Zaret 2:44 14. "You're All I Need" Walter Jurmann , Gus Kahn , Bronislaw Kaper 3:05 15. "I Wanna Be Loved " Johnny Green , Edward Heyman , Billy Rose 2:56 16. "You've Got Me Crying Again" Isham Jones , Charles Newman3:28 17. "I've Never Been In Love Before " Frank Loesser 3:01 18. "I Apologize "" Al Goodhart , Al Hoffman , Ed G. Nelson 2:52 19. "As Long As I Live" Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler 2:48 20. "I Left My Hat In Haiti" Burton Lane , Alan Jay Lerner 2:41
Disc Two Title Writer(s) 1. "Here Comes the Blues" Wynonie Harris , Illinois Jacquet 3:09 2. "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries " Lew Brown , Ray Henderson 2:43 3. "Wonder Why " Nicholas Brodszky , Sammy Cahn 2:53 4. "I'm a Fool to Want You" Joel Herron , Frank Sinatra , Jack Wolf 3:07 5. "Taking a Chance on Love " Vernon Duke , Ted Fetter , John Latouche 2:38 6. "You're Driving Me Crazy " Walter Donaldson 3:08 7. "Early Autumn " Ralph Burns , Woody Herman , Johnny Mercer 3:18 8. "Tenderly " Walter Gross , Jack Lawrence 3:42 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 Sigman 3:24 11. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes " Otto Harbach , Jerome Kern 3:42 12. "Laura " Johnny Mercer, David Raksin 3:16 13. "Mister You've Gone And Got the Blues" Billy Eckstine, Bob Russell 3:31 14. "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler 3:38 15. "April in Paris " Vernon Duke , Yip Harburg 3:06 16. "Coquette" Johnny Green , Gus Kahn , Carmen Lombardo 3:07 17. "Send My Baby Back to Me" Milton Delugg , Bob Hilliard 2:56 18. "How High the Moon " Nancy Hamilton , Morgan Lewis 5:20 19. "St. Louis Blues " W.C. Handy 6:18 20. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore " Duke Ellington, Bob Russell 2:31 21. "Lost in Loveliness" Leo Robin , Sigmund Romberg 2:57 22. "Passing Strangers " Barry Mann , Rita Mann , Sidney Mitchell 2:38
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