Title: Astaire Story
Artist: Astaire, Fred
Label: Verve
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 602557537505
Genre: Jazz

Digitally remastered reissue of a famous package starring Fred Astaire, a revered film actor/dancer, and Oscar Peterson, one of the top jazz pianists of the era. Astaire sings most of the songs that made him famous on stage and screen in the 1930s and 1940s. The program is presented as a soundtrack, with an Overture, an Intermission Music, and an Exit Music. Additionally, there is a bonus track, an alternate version of "I Won't Dance," one of Astaire's trademark numbers, recorded with Peterson three years later.

Tracks:
1.1 Overture: The Astaire Blues
1.2 Isn't This a Lovely Day
1.3 Puttin' on the Ritz
1.4 I Used to Be Color Blind
1.5 The Continental
1.6 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
1.7 Change Partners
1.8 's Wonderful
1.9 Lovely to Look at
1.10 They All Laughed
1.11 Cheek to Cheek
1.12 Steppin' Out with My Baby
1.13 The Way You Look Tonight
1.14 I've Got My Eyes on You
1.15 Dancing in the Dark
1.16 The Carioca
1.17 Nice Work If You Can Get It
1.18 New Sun in the Sky
1.19 I Won't Dance
1.20 Fast Dances (Ad Lib)
2.1 Intermission: Jam Session for a Dancer
2.2 Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
2.3 No String, I'm Fancy Free
2.4 I Concentrate on You
2.5 I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
2.6 A Fine Romance
2.7 Night and Day
2.8 Fascinating Rhythm
2.9 I Love Louisa
2.10 They Can't Take That Away from Me
2.11 Medium Dances
2.12 You're Easy to Dance with
2.13 A Needle in a Haystack
2.14 So Near and Yet So Far
2.15 A Foggy Day (In London
2.16 Town)
2.17 Oh, Lady Be Good!
2.18 Slow Dances (Ad Lib)
2.19 I'm Building Up to An Awful Letdown
2.20 Not My Girl

Astaire, Fred: Astaire Story

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