BOBBY SHORT - MAD ABOUT NOEL COWARD (1972)
2. Medley: You Were There/Then
3. Matelot
4. A Room with a View
5. Nina
6. Any Little Fish
7. World Weary
8. We Were Dancing
9. Never Again
10. Josephine
11. If Love Were All
12. Let's Fly Away
13. Something to Do with Spring
14. Someday I'll Find You
15. Imagine the Duchess's Feelings
16. Poor Little Rich Girl
17. Medley: Where Are the Songs We Sung?/Dear Little Cafe/Hearts and Flower
18. Wait a Bit, Joe
19. I Travel Alone
20. I'll See You Again
In the '70s, Atlantic issued a series of double-LPs spotlighting this nightclub star and his mastery of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart-and this stellar set of Noel Coward songs. His rich baritone brings out the best in Josephine; Poor Little Rich Girl; I'll See You Again; World Weary; A Room with a View , and 15 more!
MABEL MERCER & BOBBY SHORT - AT TOWN HALL (1968)
Sorry about the cover.
A2.That Black And White Baby Of Mine
A3.Looking At You
A4.(I Love You) Samantha
A5.When In Rome
A6.I've Got Your Number
B1.Bojangles Of Harlem
B2.Something To Live For
B3.Sand In My Shoes
B4.And Her Mother Came Too
B5.Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer
B6.On The Amazon
C1.All Of You
C2.Staying Young
C3.Children Of The Carousel
C4.Season's Greetings
C5.Isn't He Adorable
C6.Bad Is For Other People
C7.You Should See Yourself
D1.Sweet Talk
D2.Why Did I Choose You
D3.Jenny Rebecca
D4.Lazy Afternoon
D5.Confession
D6.The 59th Street Bridge Song
D7.Here's To Us
Bass – Beverly Peer (tracks: A1-B6)
Drums – Dick Sheridan (tracks: A1-B6)
Piano – Jimmy Lyon (tracks: C1-D5)
Producer – Nesuhi Ertegun
MABEL MERCER & BOBBY SHORT - SECOND TOWN HALL CONCERT (1969)
2. Isn't It a Pity?
3. I've a Shooting Box in Scotland
4. Chicago, Illinois
5. Before I Kiss the World Goodbye
6. Summer Is a -Comin' In
7. Round About
8. Sweet Bye and Bye
9. Medley: What Is There to Say?/This Is Romance/Now
10. Not a Care in the World
11. In My Old Virginia Home, on the River Nile
12. I Can't Get Started
13. I Like the Likes of You
14. Not a Moment Too Soon
15. Boys and Girls Together
16. Both Sides Now
17. Love Is Blue
18. Mama's Little Girl
19. Wait Till We're Sixty-Five
20. I See It Now
21. Down in the Depths
22. Best Is Yet to Come
23. World Today
24. These Foolish Thing
25. Days Gone By
27. Good Night
The success of Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short's 1968 concert at Town Hall in New York City led to a return engagement a year later and, perhaps more surprisingly, to a second two-LP set from Atlantic Records. Like its predecessor, At Town Hall, Second Town Hall Concert devoted its first disc to Short's opening performance and its second to Mercer, with the two singers getting together at the end. The second show was not quite as impressive as the first, though still excellent. Here, there seemed less the atmosphere of specialness and spontaneity, and the decision to fade out each song at its end prevented the album from having the sense of a continuous show. Short showed occasional vocal strain, devoting the first half of his set to familiar titles from favorites such as Cy Coleman, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin. Then he performed a mini-set of songs by the recently deceased Vernon Duke that demonstrated the composer's seamless style and the verbal facility of such collaborators as Ira Gershwin ("I Can't Get Started"). If there was a theme to Mercer's show, it was triumph over aging, as she took on titles like "Not a Moment Too Soon," "Wait Till We're Sixty-Five," "Days Gone By," and "I'm Not Giving Up." Keeping up with the times, she also covered the recent hits "Love Is Blue" (in French) and Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," and she and Short managed a rough version of "Good Night" from the current Beatles album to close things out. Second Town Hall was a worthy follow-up to At Town Hall, though the earlier album was preferred. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
BOBBY SHORT - THE MAD TWENTIES (1964)
A1.Nagasaki
A2.That's My Weakness Now
A3.That Society Bear
A4.Don't Bring Lulu
A5.Changes
A6.Tiger Rag
B1.Sweet So And So
B2.Heebie Jeebies
B3.At The Animal's Ball
B4.I'm Bringing A Red, Red Rose
B5.Laugh, Clown, Laugh
B6.I'm Cert'ny Gonna See 'Bout That
For his fifth full-length Atlantic Records album, Bobby Short looked back 30 years to create the genre exercise The Mad Twenties. It turned out to be a wonderful evocation of the 1920s that restored that roaring decade's sense of musical abandon. Short, always a bravura performer, was abetted by appropriately jazzy Dixieland-style arrangements by conductor Phil Moore and a small horn-and-rhythm band that knew the music and played it with the right spirit. The instrumental passages were full of the sound of the jazz age, and Short was completely in the spirit of the music as a vocalist, even affecting a croon on "Sweet So and So" and "I'm Bringing a Red, Red Rose" as if he were Rudy Vallée singing through a megaphone in his Ivy League tones, and plaintively handling the recitation in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" as if he were Ted Lewis smiling through his tears. Such performances bespoke a thorough understanding of the style of '20s pop and jazz music. This was no attempt to update an older style, unlike so much of '50s light pop; Short re-enlivened the '20s by playing its music with the irreverence and verve with which it was played originally. It was hard to imagine what record buyers of 1959 could be expected to make of the album, but on its own terms, it was terrific.
BOBBY SHORT - SWING THAT MUSIC (1993)
2. They Say It's Spring
3. Gone With The Wind
4. If Dreams Come True
5. Can This Be Love?
6. Chez Moi
7. Killin' Myself
8. Sleep, Baby, Don't Cry
9. Restless
10. Tenderly
11. Drop Me Off In Harlem
12. Ghost Of Yesterday
13. Swing That Music
The cabaret singer/pianist Bobby Short is teamed with the Howard Alden-Dan Barrett Quintet for this pleasing set. The band actually sounds overly gentle, failing to really push Short and not showing much individuality. However this is one of Short's more jazz-oriented sessions and, even if he doesn't swing much, his vocals are good-natured and the standards he interprets are superior. Recommended for Bobby Short's many fans. ~ Scott Yanow
Personnel: Bobby Short (vocals, piano); Howard Alden (guitar); Dan Barrett (trombone); Chuck Wilson (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute); Frank Tate (bass); Jackie Williams (drums).Entertainment Weekly (8/13/93, p.74) - "...an album outstanding in every [way]....classic pop doesn't get much better..." Rating: A-
1. C'est Magnifique
2. I Love You, Samantha
3. You Do Something to Me
4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
5. Only Another Boy and Girl
6. I Concentrate on You
7. So Near and Yet So Far
8. Can-Can
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. You're Sensational
11. What Is This Thing Called Love?
12. In the Still of the Night
13. You're the Top
14. We Shall Never Be Younger
15. Love of My Life
2. I Love You, Samantha
3. You Do Something to Me
4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
5. Only Another Boy and Girl
6. I Concentrate on You
7. So Near and Yet So Far
8. Can-Can
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. You're Sensational
11. What Is This Thing Called Love?
12. In the Still of the Night
13. You're the Top
14. We Shall Never Be Younger
15. Love of My Life
Cole Porter's songs have long enjoyed a special place in Bobby Short's repertoire, but this set gives additional luster with fine fresh arrangements by Short, guitarist Howard Alden, and tenor saxophonist-conductor Loren
Schoenberg, among others. Short is the ideal artist for Porter's songs, and it's more than mere respect for lyrics and his meticulous diction and musicality. He seems to live inside Porter's world, with its archly comic
sophistication, its ambiguities, and its suddenly pointed insights. Above all, Short is able to find the subtle emotional tones that these songs require to be fully realized, the celebratory with hints of losses past and to come, the wistful knowledge that experience must be seized to be savored. The accompaniments range from Short's piano through duets with Alden or bassist Frank Tate to a fine small group and a big band, and along the way there are particularly good solo contributions by Alden and trumpeter Virgil Jones. Amid the sentiment there are two of Porter's witty list songs. "You're the Top," with its manic inventory of all things good and beautiful--Mahatma Gandhi, Mickey Mouse, Pepsodent, Jimmy Durante's nose--is spirited, while
"Can-Can," another inventive inventory--"If an elm and an oak and an ash can, Baby, you can cancan too"--is delivered with broad humor and sly insinuation. Short is the ultimate cabaret singer; his art is timeless rather than nostalgic. --Stuart Broomer
Schoenberg, among others. Short is the ideal artist for Porter's songs, and it's more than mere respect for lyrics and his meticulous diction and musicality. He seems to live inside Porter's world, with its archly comic
sophistication, its ambiguities, and its suddenly pointed insights. Above all, Short is able to find the subtle emotional tones that these songs require to be fully realized, the celebratory with hints of losses past and to come, the wistful knowledge that experience must be seized to be savored. The accompaniments range from Short's piano through duets with Alden or bassist Frank Tate to a fine small group and a big band, and along the way there are particularly good solo contributions by Alden and trumpeter Virgil Jones. Amid the sentiment there are two of Porter's witty list songs. "You're the Top," with its manic inventory of all things good and beautiful--Mahatma Gandhi, Mickey Mouse, Pepsodent, Jimmy Durante's nose--is spirited, while
"Can-Can," another inventive inventory--"If an elm and an oak and an ash can, Baby, you can cancan too"--is delivered with broad humor and sly insinuation. Short is the ultimate cabaret singer; his art is timeless rather than nostalgic. --Stuart Broomer
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