What happened to ‘The Great American Songbook’ and why Luis Miguel did not record David Foster’s album

After watching the third season of ‘Luis Miguel, the series’, many of us want to know the true story of The Great American Songbookthe album by Luis Miguel and David Foster that never arrived.

According to the series, Patricio Robles almost made a dream come true for Luismi: to make an album in English with the renowned producer David Foster, but when he discovered the fraud of which he was a victim, the singer ended his working relationship with him in a very unpleasant way. for both of them and this causes them to lose the possibility of carrying out musical production.

However, the real story of this fact is a very different one and although there is no record that ‘El Sol’ was going to be the performer of the album or that Foster was going to produce it, this album was released in 2002.

The story of The Great American Songbook

Before telling you about the production of Luis Miguel and David Foster, we have to contextualize a little so that you know how important the release of this album would have been for the singer of ‘Nada es Igual’.

The Great American Songbook is actually an American songbook that is considered the ‘canon’ of 20th century music from this country, including songs by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter and more.

In the 1970s, it was none other than Ringo Starr who surprised the public by releasing the album ‘Sentimental Journey’ which, inspired by the popular and historic songbook, included singles from 1920 to 1950.

Since then, other pop singers have attempted to revive songs from this book in similar ways, including Harry Nilsson, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, and Rod Stewart. The latter would have a great weight on Luis Miguel and David Foster’s album, as we tell you below.

The Great American Songbook the album by Luis Miguel and David Foster that never arrived

According to the third season of ‘Luis Miguel, the series’, it was around the time of the 2000s when the production that would include songs by Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Arlen would be taking place.

In the last chapters we even see how Patricio Robles – who was supposedly based on Mauricio Abaroa and other managers of Luis Miguel – held a press conference with David Foster, greatly annoying ‘Sol’.

Likewise, there are scenes that show ‘Micky’ recording these songs, before he decides to ally with Patricio’s father so that he returns his share of Aries Producciones, with which the deal to record The Great American Songbookand cancelled.

Even during the last interaction between Robles and Luismi, the two explain that after the fight with David Foster for having Auto Tuned his voice in his interpretation of the song ‘It’s Impossible’ (English version of Armando Manzanero’s “Somos Novios”) , he would have assured him that ‘he would never record in the United States again’.

For his part, Luis Miguel released ‘Vivo’, an album that was recorded during the tour concerts in Monterrey, which includes great hits throughout his career, as well as the unreleased songs “Y” and “La bikina”, the first time when he appears accompanied by a mariachi.

Later, the famous man would take the experience of The Great American Songbook the album by Luis Miguel and David Foster that never came to record ‘México en la Piel’, one of their most successful albums that takes up iconic themes in Mexican history.

But The Great American Songbook In fact, it was eventually released in 2002 by Rod Stewart, although produced by Clive Davis, Richard Perry and Phil Ramone, with the title ‘It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook’.

The truth of the relationship between Luis Miguel and David Foster

Although there are no documents or interviews that confirm this version of events or even that Luis Miguel and David Foster would have worked on a version of The Great American Songbook, We know that there is at least one wrong fact in the series.

And although the true reasons why the singer would have left the project are not known, The Great American Songbook In real life, as well as the reasons for his fight with Foster, their relationship did not begin with this production.

In reality, as we already told you, their working relationship began with the album ‘Aries’ in 1993, which was the first led by Luis Miguel and Kiko Cebrián, since it had the assistance of Juan Luis Guerra, Rudy Pérez and David Foster, as well as that of Mauricio Abaroa himself.

Later, in 2006, ‘Micky’ included a composition by Linda Thompson and David Foster himself on the album of US Christmas songs translated into Spanish: ‘Navidades’.

The song in question was ‘My humble prayer’ and along with ‘Santa Claus came to town’, the song was released simultaneously in the US, Latin America and Spain to promote the album, which would be a perhaps involuntary collaboration between Luis Miguel and David Foster.

In the same way, the explanation that Luis Miguel abandoned the production of ‘The Mask of Zorro’ in order to make The Great American Songbook is incorrect, but to know that complete story, check out this other note.

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