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Here’s the new CD from  Andrea Marcovicci. If you’re not familiar with Andrea, this collection of her best is the perfect first CD for you. Exclusively online at CD Baby, their website includes snippets from each song, and you can buy the CD for delivery or download. With the condition of today’s “music” culture, it’s a joy to hear a consummate artist performing music from the American songbook, music that is complex and wonderful.

As Time Goes By: The Best of Andrea Marcovicci

Twenty years in the making this CD offers classic recordings of often requested, and mostly out-of-print songs, that are Andrea’s favorites plus two brand new tracks…

No CD collection would be complete without “As Time Goes By: The Best of Andrea Marcovicci”. Some of Andrea’s most requested songs are here including “The Folks Who Live on the Hil”, “Two For The Road” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”. Beginning in 1988 with “Marcovicci Sings Movies” and ending with two never before recorded tracks, “The Lies of Handsome Men” and “Young at Heart”, this CD features material from six out-of-print CDs, (Marcovicci Sings Movies; What is Love?; Just Kern; Always, Irving Berlin; Live From London; and the Mabel Mercer tribute, Some Other Time) and two soon to be out-of-print discs (New Words and Here There and Everywhere) and the still available If I Were a Bell ~ The Songs of Frank Loesser. Songwriters represented include Irving Berlin, William Finn, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, Cole Porter and Maury Yeston among others. Andrea’s voice, sultry at times, exudes warmth on these selections and the material is Marcovicci at her most tender, most romantic, and most captivating. The stories that Andrea shares for the12-page color booklet are surprising and delightful. Like this one for “After You, Who?”, “We chose this one by Cole Porter because no other song so perfectly captures the deliciously painful moment when you realize that you’ve met Mr. Right – but that you’re so worried about losing him you can’t have fun anyway!”

Here’s what the critics have to say about Andrea:

“Andrea Marcovicci has an incandescent enthusiasm.” The New York Times

“Marcovicci’s phrasing is subtle and superb.” NY Daily News

“She has the capacity to caress a song with a warming embrace.” Variety

“Sublimely moving.” NY Sun

“The greatest cabaret star of her generation. She sings with a haunting tenderness that once heard is never forgotten.” The International Herald Tribune, London

And you lucky ducks in Chicago, Andrea will be in your town Friday July 17 – Monday July 20 at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret in the Cabaret Room. Click here for more info.