Fly Him to the Moon

December 23, 2010 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Nobody’s denying the greatness of Rod Stewart’s early career, both with The Faces and on his own. But since 2002, the man can’t stop putting out MOR albums devoted to The Great American Songbook. And it’s inspired a host of copycats, from Barry Manilow to Phil Collins.

Not content with his five(!) Songbook LPs, J Records will release The Best of The Great American Songbook next year. It’s a no-frills collection of the highlights of all those albums and will probably sell a million copies to the surprise of both everyone and no one.

Curious folks: order it here and parse the track list after the jump.

Rod Stewart, The Best of The Great American Songbook (J Records, 2011)

Long Ago and Far Away
Someone to Watch Over Me
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Beyond the Sea
You’ll Never Know
Time After Time
I Can’t Get Started
The Way You Look Tonight
Bye Bye Blackbird
These Foolish Things
But Not for Me
What a Wonderful World (featuring Stevie Wonder)
My Foolish Heart
I’ll Be Seeing You

Track 1 from Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook 4 (J, 2005)
Tracks 2 and 6 from As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook Volume 2 (J, 2003)
Tracks 3, 8, 10 and 14 from It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook (J, 2002)
Tracks 4 and 13 from Fly Me to the Moon: The Great American Songbook V (J, 2010)
Track 5 previously unreleased
Tracks 7, 11 and 12 from Stardust: The Great American Songbook Volume III (J, 2004)
Track 9 from deluxe edition of Fly Me to the Moon: The Great American Songbook V (J, 2010)

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Mike Duquette

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.