- "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on the televised "Teachers Rock"
- "Non Penso A Te" from "La Dolce Vita"
- "Cinema Paradiso" from "La Dolce Vita" with Renee Fleming & Joshua Bell
- "Mi Mancherai" with Renee Fleming
- "Move on" with Rufus Wainwright from Toronto's Luminato festival
- "Someone Else's Story" from Toronto's Luminato Festival
- "If I Loved You" with Rufus Wainright from Toronto's Luminato festival
- "She's Always a Woman to Me," which I don't remember where he performed it
So far, as far as I know these have not been formally issued as audio recordings, so people who want to listen to them have to rely on bootleg recordings. Personally, I would prefer to respect copyright if I can, but these are absolutely gorgeous performances -- all of them -- and they deserve to be properly distributed on legal .mp3.
In addition to these, there are a number of singles issued lately that should be grouped in one place
- "Your Hideaway"
- "The Mystery of Your Gift"
- "Somewhere" with Barbara Streisand
- "This Is All I Ask" with Tony Bennet
- "Remember When It Rained" with Judith Hill
- "Sous le ciel de Paris" with Placido Domingo (the sole one in this list that I'm not so fond of, tho I loved "La Tua Semplicita."
That's 14 songs, total -- more than enough for an album
I recognize that there may be issues with getting permission for this album, but surely that's only a question of sufficient payment.
To me this stuff would make a fabulous album. Josh is issuing an album of Broadway songs. Maybe it will include the ones from Toronto. I certainly hope so, but probably not. Rufus is really funny flirting with Josh. Rufus, of course, is gay and Josh is not and plays a great straight man to Rufus's light hearted flirting. This may be too risqué for some audiences, I suppose -- tho it's hardly explicit. I personally think the flirting was well done.
Maybe at least the first list could be some kind of EP that Josh could issue to the fan club? I don't know. But it just seems so ridiculous that he's working so hard to get together an album, when there's already one there.
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