Hopeless Romantics is a 2005 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein

Michael Feinstein

Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...

 accompanied by pianist George Shearing

George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE was an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s...

, recorded in 2002 and released on the Concord

Concord Records

Concord Records is a U.S. record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his...

 label. The album is a tribute to the American composer Harry Warren

Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...

, who Feinstein met in his twenties.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Aaron Latham awarded the album 3½ stars and stated of Shearing that the "album's low-key approach leaves little room for him to shine", but praised Feinstein as "pitch-perfect...squeezes every ounce of good sentimentality out of each lyric".

Track listing

All compositions by Harry Warren, lyricists indicated

1. "I Had the Craziest Dream
   I Had the Craziest Dream
   "I Had the Craziest Dream" is a popular song.The music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Mack Gordon. The song was published in 1942....
   
   " (Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon
   Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
   
   ) - 3:01
2. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
   You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
   "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is a popular song.The music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1932. It appears in the backstager Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street...
   
   " (Al Dubin
   Al Dubin
   Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...
   
   ) - 3:26
3. "This Heart of Mine
   This Heart of Mine
   This Heart of Mine is a 1946 song. This music standard was written by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Arthur Freed to be featured in the musical film score, Ziegfeld Follies. This song is introduced by Fred Astaire who danced with Lucille Bremer in a lavish and romantic dance...
   
   " (Arthur Freed
   Arthur Freed
   Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.- Biography :Freed began his career as a song-plugger and pianist in Chicago...
   
   ) - 4:23
4. "At Last
   At Last
   "At Last" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Orchestra Wives, starring George Montgomery and Ann Rutherford. It was performed in the film and on record by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, with vocals by Ray Eberle and Pat Friday...
   
   " (Gordon) - 4:01
5. "I'll String Along with You
   I'll String Along With You
   "I'll String Along with You" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin, published in 1934. It features in the 1934 film Twenty Million Sweethearts where it is sung by Dick Powell....
   
   " (Dubin) - 4:13
6. "You're My Everything" (Mort Dixon
   Mort Dixon
   -Biography:Born in New York, Dixon began writing songs in the early 1920s, and was active into the 1930s. He achieved success with his first published effort, 1923's "That Old Gang of Mine". His chief composer collaborators were Ray Henderson, Harry Warren, Harry M...
   
   , Victor Young
   Victor Young
   Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 4:04
7. "The More I See You
   The More I See You
   "The More I See You" is a popular song written by Harry Warren, with lyrics by Mack Gordon. Chris Montez produced the most commercially successful and well known version of the song and it is this version that has been used many times in movies, notably at the beginning of the famous club scene in...
   
   " (Gordon) - 4:12
8. "Serenade In Blue
   Serenade In Blue
   "Serenade in Blue" is a 1942 popular song composed by Harry Warren, with lyrics written by Mack Gordon. It was introduced in the 1942 film Orchestra Wives by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, sung by Lynn Bari in the film but dubbed by Pat Friday...
   
   " (Gordon) - 4:37
9. "I Know Why (And So Do You)" (Gordon) - 4:37
10. "September in the Rain
    September in the Rain
    "September in the Rain" is a popular song by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937. The song was introduced by James Melton in the film Melody for Two...
    
    " (Dubin) - 4:11
11. "Shadow Waltz
    Gold Diggers of 1933
    Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley...
    
    " (Dubin) - 3:43
12. "There Will Never Be Another You
    There Will Never Be Another You
    "There Will Never Be Another You" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon for the Twentieth Century Fox musical Iceland starring Sonja Henie...
    
    " (Gordon) - 3:19
13. "I Only Have Eyes for You
    I Only Have Eyes for You
    "I Only Have Eyes for You" is a popular song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler....
    
    " (Dubin) - 4:45
14. "You'll Never Know
    You'll Never Know
    "You'll Never Know" is a popular song. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Mack Gordon, based on a poem written by a young Oklahoma war bride named Dorothy Fern Norris....
    
    " (Gordon) - 3:52
15. "You're My Everything" (Dixon, Young) - 3:05

• Recorded between May 6-10, 2002.