The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943–1952

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Close to You 3:20
• 2 People Will Say We’re in Love Standout 3:22
• 3 If You Are but a Dream 3:06
• 4 Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) 2:45
• 5 White Christmas Standout 3:25
• 6 I Fall in Love Too Easily 3:16
• 7 Ol’ Man River Standout 4:03
• 8 Stormy Weather 4:16
• 9 Embraceable You 3:18
• 10 (I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She’s Funny That Way 3:22
• 11 My Melancholy Baby 3:10
• 12 Where or When 3:15
• 13 All the Things You Are 3:03
• 14 I Should Care 3:03
• 15 Dream 3:04
• 16 Put Your Dreams Away (for Another Day) 3:09
• 17 Over the Rainbow 3:19
• 18 If I Loved You 3:07
• 19 Someone to Watch Over Me 3:21
• 20 You Go to My Head 3:02
• 21 These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) 3:10
• 22 The House I Live In 3:20
• 23 Day by Day 3:08

Disc 2

• 1 Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 3:22
• 2 Full Moon and Empty Arms 3:14
• 3 Oh, What It Seemed to Be 3:01
• 4 (I Don’t Stand) a Ghost of a Chance 3:13
• 5 Why Shouldn’t I? 2:54
• 6 Try a Little Tenderness 3:11
• 7 Begin the Beguine 2:57
• 8 They Say It’s Wonderful 3:07
• 9 That Old Black Magic 2:34
• 10 How Deep Is the Ocean (How Blue Is the Sky) 2:59
• 11 Home on the Range 3:14
• 12 Five Minutes More 2:37
• 13 The Things We Did Last Summer 3:18
• 14 Among My Souvenirs 3:18
• 15 September Song 3:08
• 16 Blue Skies 2:30
• 17 Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry 3:26
• 18 Lost in the Stars 3:18
• 19 There’s No Business Like Show Business 3:21
• 20 Time After Time 3:12
• 21 The Brooklyn Bridge 2:38
• 22 Sweet Lorraine 3:10
• 23 Always 2:57
• 24 Mam’selle 3:19

Disc 3

• 1 Stella by Starlight 3:22
• 2 My Romance 3:17
• 3 If I Had You 3:08
• 4 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) 3:07
• 5 But Beautiful 3:14
• 6 You’re My Girl 3:11
• 7 All of Me 2:47
• 8 Night and Day 3:41
• 9 S’posin’ 2:48
• 10 The Night We Called It a Day 3:24
• 11 The Song Is You 3:17
• 12 What’ll I Do? 3:07
• 13 The Music Stopped 3:00
• 14 Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) 3:02
• 15 I’ve Got a Crush on You 3:17
• 16 Body and Soul 3:21
• 17 I’m Glad There Is You 3:08
• 18 Autumn in New York 3:17
• 19 Nature Boy 3:21
• 20 Once in Love With Amy 3:03
• 21 Some Enchanted Evening 3:09
• 22 The Hucklebuck 3:03
• 23 Let’s Take an Old‐Fashioned Walk 3:02
• 24 It All Depends on You 2:43

Disc 4

• 1 Bye Bye Baby 2:40
• 2 Don’t Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) 3:20
• 3 That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) 3:19
• 4 Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 2:40
• 5 American Beauty Rose 2:37
• 6 Should I (Reveal) 2:26
• 7 You Do Something to Me 2:35
• 8 Lover 2:41
• 9 When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 2:31
• 10 London by Night 3:11
• 11 Meet Me at the Copa 3:13
• 12 April in Paris 2:46
• 13 I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest 2:44
• 14 Nevertheless (I’m in Love With You) 3:11
• 15 I Am Loved 2:27
• 16 Hello, Young Lovers 3:35
• 17 We Kiss in a Shadow 3:38
• 18 I’m a Fool to Want You 2:58
• 19 Love Me 3:11
• 20 Deep Night 3:18
• 21 I Could Write a Book 2:44
• 22 I Hear a Rhapsody 3:07
• 23 My Girl 2:26
• 24 The Birth of the Blues 3:30
• 25 Azure‐te (Paris Blues) 2:36
• 26 Why Try to Change Me Now 2:47

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