The new album, out March 28th
Featuring the never before released track ‘You’ll Never Know’
On the heels of the Grammy nomination For Rod Stewart’s ‘Fly Me To The Moon… The Great American Songbook, Volume V, for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album - which has sold over one million albums worldwide - Rod Stewart is set to release ‘The Best of… The Great American Songbook’ on March 21st.
‘The Best of… The Great American Songbook’ presents the highlights from five albums, recorded across eight years, which have become nothing less than a musical and cultural phenomenon. In addition, this new ‘Songbook’ collection features one, newly recorded, never before released track ‘You’ll Never Know’, produced by one of Rod’s longtime collaborators Richard Perry, along with brand new mixes of ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ and ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’.
Long celebrated for his expressive and distinctive vocal, Rod Stewart is widely regarded as having one of the most interpretive voices in music. ‘The Best of… The Great American Songbook’ celebrates the unprecedented success of the five volume series, which is the biggest-selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history, with over 18 million copies sold worldwide.
Rod infuses his incomparable vocal style into iconic standards written by Rodgers and Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, and many other great composers and lyricists, including ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘The Way You Look Tonight’, ‘They Can’t Take That Away From Me’, ‘What A Wonderful World’ featuring Stevie Wonder, and many, many more.
Clive Davis, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment and a producer of Rod’s ‘Songbook’ series reflects: "In a transient, ephemeral business, it is so gratifying to have the dual opportunity to show how long a career can last, and how these songs have a life into a new century."
Having just wrapped a sold-out first ever concert run in Las Vegas in November and a sold-out European tour last summer, Rod will be playing Norwich’s Carrow Road Stadium on June 8th. In a career spanning five decades, with an estimated 250 million album and single sales, Rod Stewart is indisputably one of the most successful performers of all time.
‘The Best of… The Great American Songbook’ tracklisting is:
01. Long Ago And Far Away
02. Someone To Watch Over Me
03. They Can't Take Away From Me
04. Beyond The Sea
05. You'll Never Know
06. Time After Time
07. I Can't Get Started
08. The Way You Look Tonight
09. Bye Bye Blackbird
10. These Foolish Things
11. But Not For Me
12. What A Wonderful World featuring Stevie Wonder
13. My Foolish Heart
14. I'll Be Seeing You
15. I Wish You Love
16. Every Time We Say Goodbye
17. Blue Skies
18. You Go To My Head
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