It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook
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| Studio album by Rod Stewart | |||||
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Publication |
October 22, 2002 |
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| Label (s) | J Records | ||||
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
49:08 |
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Phil Ramone , Richard Perry, Clive Davis |
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It Had to Be You ... The Great American Songbook ( English for, it must be you: The Great American Songbook ') is a cover album of British singer Rod Stewart . It was released on October 22, 2002 and contains only cover versions of songs from the Great American Songbook of American popular music from the 1920s to 1950s.
production
It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook was produced by American music producers Phil Ramone , Richard Perry and Clive Davis .
Cover design
The album cover shows Rod Stewart looking at the viewer. On the right of the picture is the title It Had to Be You ... The Great American Songbook in black or red and at the top of the picture is the white lettering Rod Stewart .
Track list
| # | title | Original lyricist / composer (year) | length |
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| 1 | You go to my head | J. Fred Coots , Haven Gillespie (1938) | 4:17 |
| 2 | They Can't Take That Away from Me | George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin (1937) | 3:25 |
| 3 | The Way You Look Tonight | Dorothy Fields , Jerome David Kern (1936) | 3:49 |
| 4th | It had to be you | Isham Jones , Gus Kahn (1924) | 3:24 |
| 5 | That old feeling | Lew Brown , Sammy Fain (1937) | 2:54 |
| 6th | These Foolish Things | Harry Link, Eric Maschwitz , Jack Strachey (1936) | 3:48 |
| 7th | The Very Thought of You | Ray Noble (1934) | 3:20 |
| 8th | Moonglow | Eddie DeLange , Will Hudson , Irving Mills (1933) | 3:32 |
| 9 | I'll be seeing you | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal (1938) | 3:51 |
| 10 | Every Time We Say Goodbye | Cole Porter (1944) | 3:27 |
| 11 | The Nearness of You | Hoagy Carmichael , Ned Washington (1938) | 3:00 |
| 12 | For All We Know | J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis (1934) | 3:24 |
| 13 | We'll Be Together Again | Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine (1945) | 3:54 |
| 14th | That's all | Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes (1952) | 3:03 |
Chart successes and singles
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It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook entered the German album charts at number 26 on November 4, 2002 and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 15 weeks. It was more successful in the United States and the United Kingdom, where the album reached number 4 and 8 respectively.
As singles , the songs were These Foolish Things and They Can not Take That Away from Me decoupled, both could not be placed on the charts.
Sales figures and awards
In 2006, It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook earned a triple platinum record in the United States for more than three million units sold . In the UK, it went double platinum in 2013 for over 600,000 sales. In total, the album received record awards for more than 4.3 million copies sold.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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 Argentina (CAPIF)
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 platinum
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40,000 |
 Australia (ARIA)
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3 × platinum
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210,000 |
 Brazil (PMB)
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platinum
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125,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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3 × platinum
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300,000 |
 Poland (ZPAV)
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platinum
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70,000 |
 Sweden (IFPI)
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 gold
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30,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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3 × platinum
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3,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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2 × platinum
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600,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 14 × platinum |
4,375,000 |
Main article: Rod Stewart / Music Sales Awards
reception
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| Reviews | |
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| laut.de |
 
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| allmusic |
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Stefan Johannesberg from laut.de rated It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook with two out of five points. Rod Stewart dares to “venture into unfamiliar territory”, but the album has become “a rather calm, almost conservative record,” whereby he “renounces any experiments”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Chart following It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook on officialcharts.de
- ↑ US: 3 × platinum
- ↑ UK: 2 × platinum
- ↑ Rating: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
