Basie Picks the Winners

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Basie Picks the Winners
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Studio album by
Released1965
Recorded1965
Genre Jazz
Length42:24
Label Verve
Count Basie chronology
Pop Goes the Basie
(1965)
Basie Picks the Winners
(1965)
Basie Meets Bond
(1966)
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Basie Picks the Winners is a 1965 studio album by Count Basie and his orchestra. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 3:11
  2. "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 3:20
  3. "I Won't Cry Anymore" (Al Frisch, Fred Wise) – 2:22
  4. "Exodus" (Ernest Gold) – 3:05
  5. "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:15
  6. "My Kind of Town" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:40
  7. "I'm Walkin'" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 3:34
  8. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:51
  9. "Volare" (Domenico Modugno) – 2:44
  10. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Lester Young) – 2:05
  11. "Oh, Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 2:59

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

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