You Make Me Feel So Young

You Make Me Feel So Young

by Barbara Cook
You Make Me Feel So Young

You Make Me Feel So Young

by Barbara Cook

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Overview

Barbara Cook confesses at the outset of this live recording, made in June 2011 at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York, that she has run out of ideas for themes for her nightclub sets and this time has just picked a batch of good songs she's never sung before. This isn't quite true, but it is understandable that Cook wouldn't want to state the show's theme specifically since, as the title You Make Me Feel So Young suggests, that theme concerns aging, and the perpetually young singer is 83. But why should she acknowledge that if she doesn't feel it or, especially, sound like it? Cook's voice is remarkably intact on these songs, whether she is intoning the long lines of a sad ballad like "I'm a Fool to Want You" or bouncing along to the lively rhythms of the opener, "Are You Havin' Any Fun?" But that song states the evening's throughline when the singer reminds her listeners, "You aren't gonna live forever." Other songs, such as Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's "Wait 'Til You're Sixty-Five" and "Here's to Life" also explore the matter of seniority, and even when the point is not made in so many words, it often is by implication, as in "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?," another Lerner/Lane composition. Cook makes a point of dedicating Stephen Sondheim's "Live Alone and Like It" to her divorced listeners, including herself in the category. It's true that not every song is about the concerns of getting and being old, but those that aren't tend to be change-of-pace palate clearers like Nat King Cole's "The Frim Fram Sauce," for which Cook breaks out a kazoo and does a solo. Even before then, her backup band has given much of the music a 1920s hot jazz feel, especially in the woodwind work of Steve Kenyon. Musical director Lee Musiker, meanwhile, has his own fast solo in "This Can't Be Love." The entire band gets a workout on a closing version of "I Got Rhythm" that might be called "The 'I Got Rhythm' Variations." As a coda, Cook reasonably looks to a hopeful future with a songwriter outside her usual realm, turning in a precise and unadorned version of John Lennon's "Imagine" over Musiker's piano. It shows that, at whatever age one may be, idealism is still possible. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 09/27/2011
Label: Drg
UPC: 0021471478624
Rank: 87401

Tracks

  1. Are You Havin' Any Fun?
  2. You Make Me Feel So Young
  3. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
  4. Wait 'Til You're Sixty-Five
  5. The Frim Fram Sauce
  6. When I Look in Your Eyes
  7. What Did I Have That I Don't Have?
  8. Live Alone and Like It
  9. This Can't Be Love
  10. I've Got You Under My Skin
  11. Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You
  12. I'm a Fool to Want You
  13. Here's to Life
  14. I Got Rhythm
  15. Imagine

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Barbara Cook   Primary Artist,Kazoo,Vocals
Lee Musiker   Music Direction,Piano
Jay Leonhart   Bass
Warren Odze   Drums
Steve Kenyon   Woodwind

Technical Credits

Sean Marlowe   Art Direction,Design
Lee Musiker   Executive Producer,Arranger
Barbara Cook   Arranger,Executive Producer
Wally Harper   Arranger
Mike Martin   Cover Photo
Alan Silverman   Mastering
Cynthia Daniels   Mixing,Editing,Engineer
Hugh Fordin   Producer
Paul Grosso   Creative Director
Ken Howard   Tray Card
Philip Rinaldi   Representation
Mor Mezrich   Assistant
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