The New American Songbook [double CD] - BYU Young Ambassadors

For years people around the world have loved and performed music from what has come to be called The Great American Songbook. In this album, the BYU Young Ambassadors explore some of the great music from the decades just after that revered golden age—hence the title The New American Songbook. Their hope is that as people listen to this music it will trigger happy memories from their own lives.

An exciting change for the BYU Young Ambassadors during this show's run was the presence of a live 10-piece band on stage. Audiences loved this new musical dimension, and every effort was made in this recording to capture the energy of the BYU Young Ambassador cast and band, just as you would hear them live.

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TRACKS

CD ONE

1. Overture Medley: “Songs About Songs”
I Write the Songs (Bruce Johnston); Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song (Paul Williams); Song Sung Blue (Neil Diamond); I’ve Got the Music in Me (Tobias-Bobshell); Listen to the Music (Tom Johnston)

ELVIS PRESLEY TRIBUTE
2. C’mon Everybody
Jon Byers

3. Can’t Help Falling in Love
George Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi Creatore

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS TRIBUTE
4. Sherry
Bob Gaudio

5. Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe

6. Who Loves You
Bob Gaudio and Judy Parker

HITS OF THE ’70S
7. I Feel the Earth Move
Carole King

8. Saturday in the Park
Robert Lamm

9. Sir Duke
Stevie Wonder

10. Disco Medley
Last Dance (Paul Jabara

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Gerald Sayer

Reunited
Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren

TWO FROM THE ’80S
11. Suddenly
John Farrar

12. Tell Her About It
Billy joel

NASHVILLE TRIBUTE
13. (I’d Choose) You Again
Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz

14. Mountain Music
Randy Owen

15. One More Day
Bobby Tomberlin and Steven Dale Jones

DISNEY MOVIE FAVORITES
16. Zero to Hero (from Hercules)
Alan Menken and David Zippel

17. Go the Distance Medley
“Go the Distance” from Hercules (Alan Menken and David Zippel); “Just Around the Riverbend” from Pocahontas (Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz); “Reflection” from Mulan (Matthew Wilder and David Zippel)

18. Seize the Day (from Newsies)
Alan Menken and Jack Feldman

19. Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious
(from the revival of Mary Poppins)
Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman, George Stiles and A. Drewe


CD TWO

1. Fingernails
Joe Ely

RECENT BROADWAY FAVORITES
2. I Can Do That (from A Chorus Line)
Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Klevan

3. I Don’t Wanna Show Off (from The Drowsy Chaperone)
Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrisson

4. My New Philosophy (from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Andrew Lippa

5. Beethoven Day (from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Andrew Lippa

6. Knights of the Round Table (from Spamalot)
Innes-Cleese-Chapman

THREE SONGS FROM WICKED
7. One Short Day
Stephen Schwartz

8. Dancing Through Life
Stephen Schwartz

9. Defying Gravity
Stephen Schwartz

THREE SONGS FROM TARZAN
10. Trashin’ the Camp
Phil Collins

11. For the First Time
Phil Collins

12. Two Worlds, One Family
Phil Collins

CREDITS

Executive producer: Ron Simpson for Tantara

Produced by Ron Simpson and Randy Boothe with Ben Fales

All recording by Cliff Maag, Bart Schaerrer, and Ross Boothe at Record Lab

Mixing by Cliff Maag at Record Lab and Bart Schaerrer at Bart Schaerrer Designs

Mastering by Troy Sales

Musical arrangements by Ross Boothe (principal arranger), Lyle Durland, Matt Nielsen, Michael Leavitt, Clive Romney, Lon Madsen, Ron Simpson, and Randy Boothe

Tantara Records is an enterprise center in the School of Music at Brigham Young University, and part of the College of Fine Arts and Communications.

THE YOUNG AMBASSADORS COMPANY

Lori Baird, Rebecca Bailey, Nikki Bohne, Mark Boothe, Bailee Brinkerhoff, Benjamin Davies, Taylor Frey, Danielle Frogley, John Hadlock, Stacia Hardy, Jaremy Hill, Nina Hill, Stephanie Horn, Christina Jenkins, Melinda Lockwood, Daniel Lofgren, Peter Nelson, Lane Olson, Preston Sadlier, Becca Schwartz, Alyssa Simmons, Benjamin Tichey, Carson Twitchell, Logan Wilkes, Jessica Woahn, Jared Young