Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'

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Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'
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Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedJune 20–22, 1966
Genre Jazz, Vocal jazz
Length48:28
Label ABC-Paramount
Producer Bob Thiele, Teddy Reig
Count Basie chronology
Basie's Beatle Bag
(1966)
Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'
(1966)
Broadway Basie's...Way
(1966)
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'Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' is a 1966 album by Count Basie with the Alan Copeland singers.

Contents

It was issued in UK on His Master's Voice label. The single release "Happiness Is" reached #28 on Billboard's "Easy Listening" survey.

Track listing

  1. "Happiness Is" (Paul Parnes, Paul Evans)
  2. "I Surrender Dear" (Gordon Clifford, Harry Barris)
  3. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  4. "You Are My Sunshine" (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell)
  5. "Until I Met You" (Don Wolf, Freddie Green)
  6. "Candy" (Mack David, Joan Whitney Kramer, Alex Kramer)
  7. "Down by the Old Mill Stream" (Tell Taylor)
  8. "Fantastic, That's You" (George Cates, Bob Thiele, Mort Green)
  9. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  10. "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup)
  11. "Call Me" (Tony Hatch)

Personnel

Performance
Production

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