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Steve & Eydie The Ultimate Collection (2023) FLAC
1.3 GB

The 4-CD box set - available exclusively as a thank you gift to Public Television donors - has been curated by David Lawrence and is thematically arranged by disc. It features highlights from Steve and Eydies vibrant discography from their early days at ABC-Paramount and United Artists through their halcyon period at Columbia Records, subsequent classics for Calendar, RCA, and MGM, and favorites from their own Stage 2 and GL Music labels.

CD 1, Duet Classics, spans decades - from Steve and Eydies first signature song (Steve Allens This Could Be the Start of Something Big) through such warm, latter-day favorites as Thats What Friends Are For and Through the Years. Along the way, the disc presents timeless standards from Broadway and Hollywood (including For Once in Your Life from the couples own Broadway musical, Golden Rainbow) and further highlights including the delightful Goffin/King confection I Want to Stay Here and Eurovision pop hit Hallelujah. CD 2, Steve Classics, offers a look at his own multi-faceted discography, opening with his earliest AM radio favorites for ABC-Paramount and UA (Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love) and continuing with his signature solo tunes Go Away Little Girl and Ive Gotta Be Me, and definitive performances of beloved standards such as More (in a fresh remix), In the Still of the Night, and My Heart Stood Still. As a special bonus, this disc includes two rarities: a previously unreleased rendition of Leslie Bricusses You and I from the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips; and the CD debut of Steves 1969 sunshine pop delight The Drifter written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols and newly remixed for this release.

CD 3, Eydie Classics, takes a similar look at her remarkable discography including the Grammy-winning If He Walked Into My Life from Jerry Hermans score to Mame; What Did I Have That I Dont Have from Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lanes On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weils sparkling Blame It on the Bossa Nova, a top ten hit for Eydie in 1963. The fourth disc of The Ultimate Collection returns Steve and Eydie to the Great White Way. Broadway Classics rounds up even more of the showtunes that the couple made their own, from playful duets (An Old-Fashioned Wedding from Annie Get Your Gun, The Honeymoon Is Over from I Do! I Do!) to solos from each. The disc features a mini-suite of songs from Stephen Sondheim, beginning with Eydies velvety Small World from Sondheim and Jule Stynes score to Gypsy and continuing with selections from Anyone Can Whistle (Steves rapturous With So Little to Be Sure Of), Company (Eydies brassy The Ladies Who Lunch and the CD debut of Steves moving Being Alive), A Little Night Music (Eydies Send in the Clowns), and back to Gypsy for Together, Wherever We Go.

The audio for the 4-CD box set has been newly mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Bakery. A 24-page booklet desi