Release date 22 October 2002 Genre Traditional pop music | ||
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Released 22 October 2002 (2002-10-22) Producer Clive Davis, Richard Perry, Phil Ramone Recorded at Icon Recording Studios, Hollywood, California. Icon Recording Studios owner and Chief Engineer - Andrew Troy, Assistant Engineer - Aaron Kaplay, 2nd Assistant Engineer - Pablo Solorzano. It Had to Be You The Great American Songbook(2002) As Time Goes By The Great American Songbook, Volume II(2003) Nominations Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, Juno Award for International Album of the Year Similar Rod Stewart albums, Traditional pop music albums |
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It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook is the first album of American pop standards recorded by British musician Rod Stewart. It was released on 22 October 2002, and became the first in a five-volume series.
Contents
The album was Stewart's first release for J Records. It included his second recording of "Every Time We Say Goodbye."
A live DVD of the same title was released on 4 February 2003, which featured performances of material from the studio album as well as Stewart's earlier material.
Live DVD
- "Forever Young" (Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart)
- "Some Guys Have All the Luck" (Jeff Fortgang)
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Fields, Kern)
- "These Foolish Things" (Link, Marvell, Strachey)
- "Moonglow" (DeLange, Hudson, Mills)
- "Every Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter)
- "The Very Thought of You" (Noble)
- "That Old Feeling" (Brown, Fain)
- "You Go to My Head" (Coots, Gillespie)
- "For All We Know" (Coots, Lewis)
- "The Nearness of You" (Carmichael, Washington)
- "That's All" (Brandt, Haymes)
- "We'll Be Together Again" (Fischer, Laine)
- "Rhythm of My Heart" (Marc Jordan, John Capek)
- "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits)
- "Maggie May" (Stewart, Martin Quittenton)
- "Young Turks" (Stewart, Carmine Appice, Duane Hitchings, Savigar)
- "Hot Legs" (Stewart, Gary Grainger)
- "Having a Party" (Sam Cooke)
- "I'll Be Seeing You" (Fain, Kahal)
- "It Takes Two" (William "Mickey" Stevenson, Sylvia Moy)
Songs
1You Go to My Head4:17
2They Can't Take That Away From Me3:26
3The Way You Look Tonight3:49
References
It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA