Full details of Rod’s next album have been released. The sixteen track album, Rod’s fifth in as many years, is the fourth edition in the Great American Songbook series.
Full track listing is as follows, together with the writers in brackets and the artist the song is most associated and year they recorded it.
The album is due for release on 18 October in the USA and around the same time in the UK.
Blue Skies
(Irving Berlin)
WILLIE NELSON, 1978
I’ve Got A Crush On You
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
ELLA FITZGERALD, 1956
I Wish You Love
(Charles Trenet)
FRANK SINATRA, 1963
You Made Me Love You
(Joseph McCarthy & James V. Monaco)
JUDY GARLAND,1959
Make Someone Happy
(Betty Comden/Adolph Green/Jule Styne)
TONY BENNETT, 1976
My Funny Valentine
(Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
FRANK SINATRA,1954
Long Ago & Far Away
(Ira Gershwin/Jerome Kern)
GLENN MILLER, 1944
Taking A Chance On Love
(John Latouche/Ted Fetter)
BENNY GOODMAN ORCHESTRA, 1943
Thanks For The Memory
(Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger)
SHEP FIELDS & BOB HOPE, 1937
Let’s Fall In Love
(Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen)
NAT “KING” COLE, 1943
You Send Me
(Sam Cooke)
SAM COOKE, 1958
Cheek To Cheek (Irving Berlin)
(Irving Berlin)
FRED ASTAIRE, 1935
I Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(Irving Berlin)
BILLIE HOLIDAY, 1937
Me & Mrs. Jones
(Cary Gilbert/Kenneth Gamble/Leon Huff)
BILLY PAUL, 1972
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
(Paul Riser/James Dean/William Weatherspoon)
JIMMY RUFFIN, 1966
You’re All I Need To Get By
(Nickolas Ashford/Valerie Simpson)
MARVIN GAYE, 1968
