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Aren't You Glad You're You?
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The Cafe Songbook
Record/Video Cabinet: Selected Recordings of
"Aren't You Glad You're You?"
(All Record/Video Cabinet entries
below
include a music-video
of this page's featured song.
The year given is for when the studio
track was originally laid down
or when the live performance was given.)
Performer/Recording Index
(*indicates accompanying music-video)
Notes: The year 2004 is when the album was released not the year of the live performance of "Aren't You Glad You're You," but as John Bush notes in his CD Universe product description, all the tracks are from the last fifteen years of Tormé's career, "his AARP years. Bush writes that Jazz label Concord's Instant Party series "selects the most exuberant performances from the repertoire of their many good candidates -- Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, and now Mel Tormé. Tormé recorded loads of great material for Concord during the last 15 years of his career, much of it in the vein for a good cocktail party. Featuring a lot of material in the concert setting where Tormé excelled, the compilation opens with a hilariously self-effacing "I'm Hip" ("I'm so hip I read People magazine") and a similarly amusing "Give Me the Simple Life." Not all of the inclusions encapsulate the concept; "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm," "Aren't You Glad You're You," and "The Carioca" are light enough but not effusive enough. Still, it's a cheap and effective introduction to the magic Mel Tormé created during his AARP years." (Please complete or pause one
video before starting another.)