| 'Round Midnight | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | August 10, 1962 – January 15, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 31:11 | |||
| Label | Atco | |||
| Producer | Nesuhi Ertegün | |||
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'Round Midnight is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter that was arranged by Claus Ogerman and Oliver Nelson. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Scott Yanow, writing on Allmusic.com gave 'Round Midnight two and a half stars out of five. Yanow commented of Carter in this period: "Her chance-taking style and unusual voice were mostly ignored and it would not be until the late '70s that she was finally 'discovered.' ...Her style was a lot freer than it had been in her earlier records but was still more accessible than it would be. Her repertoire" at the time "was already becoming eclectic." [1]
Billboard gave 'Round Midnight its "4-star rating" in March 1963. The rating was given for "new albums with sufficient commercial potential." [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Nothing More to Look Forward To" | Richard Adler | 2:31 |
| 2. | "Who What Why Where When" | Betty Carter | 3:05 |
| 3. | "Heart and Soul" | Frank Loesser, Hoagy Carmichael | 3:14 |
| 4. | "Call Me Darling" | Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld | 3:48 |
| 5. | "When I Fall in Love" | Edward Heyman, Victor Young | 2:56 |
| 6. | "'Round Midnight" | Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk | 3:14 |
| 7. | "I Wonder" | Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen | 2:29 |
| 8. | "Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)" | Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, Hal Winn | 2:40 |
| 9. | "The Good Life" | Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon | 2:30 |
| 10. | "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" | Ace Adams, Regina Adams, Lionel Hampton | 2:40 |
| 11. | "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" | Lew Pollack, Paul Francis Webster | 2:04 |
| 12. | "Shine On, Harvest Moon" | Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth | 2:06 |
| 13. | "One Note Samba" | Jon Hendricks, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça | 2:21 |
