30 (Harry Connick Jr. album)

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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 23, 2001 (2001-10-23)
RecordedSeptember 4–8, 1998
Studio Sony Music, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Sony/Columbia (U.S.)
Producer Tracey Freeman
Harry Connick Jr. chronology
Come by Me
(1999)
30
(2001)
Songs I Heard
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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PopMatters favorable [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]

30 is an album by American singer Harry Connick Jr. The album was recorded in 1998, when Connick was 30 years old, but it was not released until 4 years later, on the same date as his album Songs I Heard . The album includes both vocal and instrumental tracks.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm Walkin'" Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino 2:48
2."Chattanooga Choo Choo" Mack Gordon, Harry Warren 3:39
3."Somewhere My Love" Maurice Jarre 7:09
4."The Gypsy" Billy Reid 5:31
5."If I Were a Bell" Frank Loesser 6:55
6."Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" Henry Creamer, Turner Layton 3:45
7."Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree"Irwin Levine, L. Russell Brown 4:10
8."There Is Always One More Time" Ken Hirsch, Doc Pomus 3:52
9."New Orleans" Hoagy Carmichael 4:01
10."Speak Softly Love" Nino Rota 4:02
11."Junco Partner" Bob Shad 6:10
12."Don't Fence Me In"Robert Fletcher, Cole Porter 3:58
13."Don't Like Goodbyes" Harold Arlen, Truman Capote 3:20
14."I'll Only Miss Her (When I Think of Her)" Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen 8:51

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2001)Provider(s)Peak
position
Billboard 200 (U.S.) [4] Billboard 94
Billboard Top Jazz Albums (U.S.) [4] 3
Billboard Top Internet Albums (U.S.) [5] 24
Chart (2002)Provider(s)Peak
position
Norwegian Album Chart [6] VG Nett 35

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. PopMatters review
  3. Entertainment Weekly review
  4. 1 2 U.S. Album Charts
  5. Allmusic, 30 Chart History
  6. "Norwegian Album Chart". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2007-04-19.