Collectables Classics: the Very Best of John Gary

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Collectables Classics: the Very Best of John Gary Review

by Al Campbell

Collectables Classics: The Very Best of John Gary is a limited-edition four-CD box set with 92 songs that collects the following seven albums from the pop crooner: Catch a Rising Star, Encore, The Nearness of You, Sings Your All Time Favorite Songs, A Heart Filled with Song, Choice, and The John Gary Carnegie Hall Concert. Whether there are enough rabid fans to warrant such an elaborate set could be argued, but the Collectables label should be given credit for keeping easy listening titles like these in print for those who want them.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	This Is All I Ask Gordon Jenkins	John Gary	02:40	Amazon
2	My Kind of Girl Leslie Bricusse	John Gary	02:38	Amazon
3	Once Upon a Time Lee Adams / Charles Strouse	John Gary	02:58	Amazon
4	Till the Birds Sing in the Morning Will Holt	John Gary	02:43	Amazon
5	Your Cheatin' Heart Hank Williams	John Gary	02:45	Amazon
6	Yellow Bird Luboff	John Gary	02:47	Amazon
7	Unchained Melody Alex North / Hy Zaret	John Gary	03:29	Amazon
8	Half as Much Curley Williams	John Gary	02:27	Amazon
9	More Oliviero	John Gary	03:09	Amazon
10	The Possum Song John Gary	John Gary	02:09	Amazon
11	Somewhere Along the Way Kurt Adams / Sammy Gallop	John Gary	03:13	Amazon
12	Ebb Tide Robert Maxwell / Carl Sigman	John Gary	02:36	Amazon
13	Tender Is the Night [From Tender Is the Night] Sammy Fain / Paul Francis Webster	John Gary	02:42	Amazon
14	Anywhere I Wander [From Hans Christian Andersen] Frank Loesser	John Gary	03:36	Amazon
15	Melodie d'Amour (Melody of Love) Leo Johns / Henri Salvador	John Gary	02:30	Amazon
16	And This Is My Beloved [From Kismet] George Forrest / Robert Wright	John Gary	02:39	Amazon
17	Ol' Man River [From Show Boat] Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern	John Gary	02:30	Amazon
18	Stella by Starlight [From The Uninvited] Ned Washington / Victor Young	John Gary	03:31	Amazon
19	Take Me in Your Arms Markush	John Gary	02:37	Amazon
20	Far Away Places Alex Kramer / Joan Whitney	John Gary	02:49	Amazon
21	A Beautiful Thing	John Gary	02:58	Amazon
22	If	John Gary	03:02	Amazon
23	(It's Been) Grand Knowing You [From She Loves Me] Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick	John Gary	02:38	Amazon
24	Stranger in Paradise [From Kismet] George Forrest / Robert Wright	John Gary	02:31	Amazon

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	The Nearness of You Hoagy Carmichael	John Gary	02:40	Amazon
2	You Stepped Out of a Dream Nacio Herb Brown / Gus Kahn	John Gary	02:34	Amazon
3	My Foolish Heart [From My Foolish Heart]	John Gary	03:26	Amazon
4	Softly, as I Leave You	John Gary	03:28	Amazon
5	Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) [From The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd] Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley	John Gary	02:48	Amazon
6	The Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au) Al Hoffman / Charles E. King / Dick Manning	John Gary	03:03	Amazon
7	Time After Time [From It Happened in Brooklyn] Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne	John Gary	02:50	Amazon
8	On the Street Where You Live [From My Fair Lady] Lerner	John Gary	03:21	Amazon
9	Beautiful Bobby Doyle	John Gary	03:34	Amazon
10	I Wish You Love (Que Reste-T-Il De Nos Amours?) Albert A. Beach / Charles Trénet	John Gary	02:43	Amazon
11	Dear Heart [From Dear Heart] Henry Mancini	John Gary	02:56	Amazon
12	The Sound of Music [From The Sound of Music] Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers	John Gary	02:54	Amazon
13	All the Things You Are Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern	John Gary	02:03	Amazon
14	Night and Day Cole Porter	John Gary	02:49	Amazon
15	Fascination Dick Manning / Fidenco Dante Marchetti	John Gary	01:56	Amazon
16	Star Dust Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish	John Gary	03:22	Amazon
17	As Time Goes By Herman Hupfeld	John Gary	03:15	Amazon
18	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern	John Gary	03:06	Amazon
19	I Left My Heart in San Fransisco George Cory / Douglass Cross	John Gary	02:44	Amazon
20	Autumn Leaves Joseph Kosma / Johnny Mercer	John Gary	02:49	Amazon
21	Some Enchanted Evening [From South Pacific] Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers	John Gary	03:22	Amazon
22	Deep Purple Peter DeRose / Mitchell Parish	John Gary	02:10	Amazon
23	Tonight [From West Side Story] Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim	John Gary	02:23	Amazon
24	You'll Never Walk Alone [From Carousel] Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers	John Gary	02:20	Amazon

Track Listing - Disc 3

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	What Now My Love Gilbert Bécaud / Delanoe	John Gary	02:57	Amazon
2	Till Danvers	John Gary	02:37	Amazon
3	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) Bart Howard	John Gary	02:29	Amazon
4	Because of You Arthur Hammerstein / Dudley Wilkinson	John Gary	02:38	Amazon
5	Without a Song Eliscu / Vincent Youmans	John Gary	02:29	Amazon
6	While We're Young Morty Palitz	John Gary	02:27	Amazon
7	No Arms Can Ever Hold You (Like These Arms of Mine)	John Gary	02:30	Amazon
8	Yesterday John Lennon / Paul McCartney	John Gary	02:50	Amazon
9	The Shadow of Your Smile [Love Theme from The Sandpiper]	John Gary	02:59	Amazon
10	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Sammy Fain	John Gary	02:33	Amazon
11	Be My Love Nicholas Brodszky / Sammy Cahn	John Gary	03:05	Amazon
12	If Ever I Would Leave You [From Camelot] Lerner	John Gary	02:51	Amazon
13	Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael	John Gary	03:11	Amazon
14	Tammy [From Tammy and the Bachelor]	John Gary	03:01	Amazon
15	I'll Remember Her Noël Coward	John Gary	02:54	Amazon
16	Charade Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer	John Gary	02:00	Amazon
17	Somewhere Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim	John Gary	02:48	Amazon
18	Luck Be a Lady [From Guys and Dolls] Frank Loesser	John Gary	02:29	Amazon
19	I'll Be Seeing You Sammy Fain	John Gary	03:07	Amazon
20	Love Is Here to Stay [From An American in Paris] George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	John Gary	03:10	Amazon
21	I Ain't Down Yet [From The Unsinkable Molly Brown] Meredith Willson	John Gary	01:21	Amazon
22	How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) Berlin	John Gary	03:07	Amazon
23	Don't Blame Me Jimmy McHugh	John Gary	03:20	Amazon
24	Younger Than Springtime [From South Pacific] Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers	John Gary	03:08	Amazon

Track Listing - Disc 4

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Introduction	John Gary feat: Jim Ameche	00:49	Amazon
2	More [Theme from Mondo Cane]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:23	Amazon
3	Sitting on Top of the World	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	02:09	Amazon
4	Talk	John Gary	00:25	Amazon
5	Sunrise, Sunset [From Fiddler on the Roof]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:23	Amazon
6	Talk	John Gary	00:53	Amazon
7	How I Learned to Sing: That's My Desire/Racing with the Moon/Cry/King of the Road Frankie Laine / Roger Miller / Vaughn Monroe / Johnnie Ray	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	04:28	Amazon
8	My Cup Runneth Over [From I Do! I Do!]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:21	Amazon
9	Opportunity [Poem]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	01:21	Amazon
10	The Impossible Dream (The Quest) [From Man of La Mancha]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	02:52	Amazon
11	The Most Beautiful Girl in the World	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	01:39	Amazon
12	Talk	John Gary	00:19	Amazon
13	The Shadow of Your Smile [Love Theme from The Sandpiper]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:16	Amazon
14	Talk	John Gary	00:49	Amazon
15	La Malaguena	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:48	Amazon
16	She Loves Me [From She Loves Me]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	02:33	Amazon
17	Finale: Grand Knowing You [From She Loves Me]	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	01:36	Amazon
18	Finale: Georgia on My Mind and Reprise	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	03:50	Amazon
19	Finale: Applause & Talk	John Gary	01:59	Amazon
20	Finale: Softly, as I Leave You	John Gary feat: Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra	01:16	Amazon