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Artist: George Shearing Title: You're Hearing The Best Of George Shearing Label:   MGM Country: USA Catalogue: E-3796 Date: Jan 1960 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	George Shearing	I Hear Music (From Film "Dancing On A Dime")	Burton Lane, Frank Loesser	Rate
A2	George Shearing	Tenderly	Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence	Rate
A3	George Shearing	There's A Lull In My Life (20th Century-Fox Film "Wake Up And Live")	Mack Gordon, Harry Revel	Rate
A4	George Shearing	Caravan - Part 1 And Part 2	Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Irving Mills	Rate
A5	George Shearing	Hallelujah! (MGM Technical Film "Hit The Deck")	Vincent Youmans, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey	Rate
A6	George Shearing	Easy To Love (MGM Technical Picture "Easy To Love")	Cole Porter	Rate
B1	George Shearing	The Lady Is A Tramp (MGM Technical Picture "Words And Music")	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Rate
B2	George Shearing	Summertime (Stage Production "Porgy And Bess")	George Gershwin, Edwin DuBose Heyward	Rate
B3	George Shearing	Don't Blame Me (MGM Film "The Strip")	Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields	Rate
B4	George Shearing	They All Laughed (RKO Film "Shall We Dance")	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	Rate
B5	George Shearing	Body And Soul	Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton	Rate
B6	George Shearing	Stranger In Paradise (MGM Cinema Scope Film "Kismet")	Robert Wright, George Forrest	Rate

Notes

George Shearing was a jazz pianist who was prosperous in both his native country of the United Kingdom and in the United States. Though Mr. Shearing was born blind, he composed more than 300 jazz titles, such as the “Lullaby of Birdland” and “Conception.”

In the United Kingdom, Mr. Shearing had performed in the Harry Parry and the Stefan Grappelli band during the second world war. Consequently, Mr. Shearing had won the top pianist rating six consecutive times by means of the Melody Maker music magazine polls. In the United States, Mr. Shearing was contracted to record with MGM records thru which his quintet band had recorded “September in the Rain”, which had sold nearly one million copies.

Though the majority of tunes of this MGM disc of 33.33 were from diverse successful motion pictures and theater productions, this disc did not sell well, but Mr. Shearing was one of the most prosperous jazz pianist and composer despite the fact that he had to overcome his blindness. Finally, this was the first MGM disc of 33.33 rpm that was issued in 1960.

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