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The Very Best of
JOHN WILLIAMS
and the
BOSTON POPS

(1998)


Reader's Digest I-21-179 Conducted by John Williams
Format: 4 CD-R
Total Playing Time: 271:23 The Boston Pops Orchestra
Date: May 5, 2011
Cat. No. CO40-190

Contains previously released material


Track Listing

CD 1 (72:08)

AMERICA, THE DREAM GOES ON
1. Liberty Fanfare
2. America The Beautiful
3. This Land Is Your Land
4. Richard Rodgers' Waltzes: Lover/Falling In Love With Love/

    Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'/It's A Grand Night For Singing
5. March From Superman
6. Fanfare For The Common Man
7. America, The Dream Goes On (James Ingram, Soloist)
8. Hoedown From Rodeo
9. Seventy-Six Trombones

THE POPS PLAY A MOVIE SPECTACULAR
10. Theme From A Summer Place
11. Singin' In The Rain
12. Over The Rainbow
13. The Trolley Song
14. Somewhere Out There
15. March From Raiders of the Lost Ark
16. A Salute To Fred Astaire: Top Hat, White Tie And Tails/The Carioca/

     Dancing In The Dark/I Won't Dance/The Continental
17. Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey (Also Sprach Zarathustra)
18. Theme From New York, New York

CD 2 (70:18)

QUIET NIGHT . . . WITH THE POPS
1. Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (Leone Buyse, Flute)
2. Theme from Out Of Africa
3. Clair de Lune
4. Adagio For Strings And Organ (Albinoni) (Max Hobart, Violin)

STARLIGHT SWING . . . WITH THE POPS
5. Sleepy Lagoon
6. A String Of Pearls
7. Begin The Beguine
8. Song Of India
9. Sing, Sing, Sing

THE POPS ON BROADWAY
10. Sophisticated Ladies (A Tribute to Duke Ellington):

     Sophisticated Lady/Take the "A" Train/Mood Indigo/
     It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
11. Memory
12. There's No Business Like Show Business
13. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
14. Overture To A Chorus Line

CD 3 (63:36)

THE POPS SALUTE ALL-TIME POPULAR FAVORITES
1. Ebb Tide
2. More
3. Here You Come Again
4. Unchained Melody
5. The Girl from Ipanema
6. Theme from Summer of '(The Summer Knows)
7. Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)
8. Where Is Your Heart? (The Song from Moulin Rouge)
9. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

THE POPS AROUND THE WORLD
10. Never On Sunday
11. La Bamba
12. Irish Tune From Country Derry (Danny Boy)
13. American Medley: New York, New York/Lonely Town/America
14. Tuxedo Junction
15. Fiddler on the Roof Medley: If I Were a Rich Man/To Life/

     Miracle of Miracles/Sunrise, Sunset/Matchmaker, Matchmaker/Tradition
16. Ciribiribin

CD 4 (65:21)

POPS . . . GO THE CLASSICS
1. Rhapsody In Blue (Misha Dichter, Piano)
2. Pavane (Fauré)
3. Orb And Sceptre (Coronation March)
4. The Swan (Martha Babcock, Cello)

A POPS TRIBUTE TO GERSHWIN
5. An American In Paris

MARCHING WITH THE POPS
6. St. Louis Blues March
7. Under The Double Eagle
8. American Salute (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
9. Strike Up The Band




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