Beauty and the Beard

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Beauty and the Beard
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Studio album by
Released 1964
Genre Jazz
Length32:36
Label RCA Victor
Producer Steve Sholes
Al Hirt chronology
Our Man in New Orleans
(1963)
Beauty and the Beard
(1964)
Sugar Lips
(1964)
Ann-Margret chronology
Bachelors' Paradise
(1963)
Beauty and the Beard
(1964)
Songs from The Swinger (And Other Swingin' Songs)
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Beauty and the Beard is an album by Al Hirt and Ann-Margret released by RCA Victor in 1964. The album was arranged by Marty Paich and produced by Steve Sholes. [3]

Contents

The album reached No. 84 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in 1964 [4] and #47 on the Cashbox Top 100 Albums. [5]

Billboard Magazine awarded the album 'Special Merit' in their review column, stating that the record was "a wild and woolly combination. Ann-Margret and Al Hirt dish out a togetherness-type swingers. Ann-Margret does the huffin' while Al Hirt does the puffin'...duo provides much listenable entertainment." [6]

In their review of the album, Cashbox praised the album as "delightfully entertaining...the trumpeter also turns singer here as he and the lark give good humoured readings of "My Baby Just Cares for Me", "Everybody Loves My Baby" and "The Best Man" and nine other lively tunes. Some brisk trumpet rides by Hirt add colour to the session." [7]

The album was reissued on compact disc in 2010 by Bear Family Records under the title Personalities - The Velvet Lounge. It contained three bonus tracks never before released. [8]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Personality" Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen 3:17
2."'Tain't What You Do" Sy Oliver, Trummy Young 2:15
3."Bill Bailey" Hughie Cannon 3:18
4."My Baby Just Cares for Me" Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn 2:11
5."Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)" Spencer Williams, Jack Palmer 2:18
6."Little Boy (Little Girl)"Francis Henry, Madeline Hyde2:16
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Best Man"Fred Wise, Roy Alfred3:16
2."Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)" Sidney Clare, Con Conrad 2:22
3."Mutual Admiration Society"Harold Karr, Matt Dubey2:43
4."Row, Row, Row"Jimmie V. Monaco, William Jerome2:24
5."Baby, It's Cold Outside" Frank Loesser 3:33
6."Just Because"Joe Shelton, Sydney Robin, Bob Shelton2:43
Bonus tracks (2010 reissue) [9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Mack the Knife" Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht 2:33
14."I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" Armand J. Piron 2:59
15."Mama's Gone, Goodbye" Peter Bocage, Armand Piron 2:28

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1964)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs 84
US Cashbox Top 100 47

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References

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  3. Al Hirt, Beauty and the Beard. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  4. Al Hirt, Beauty and the Beard Chart Position. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
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