Bittersweet (Carmen McRae album)

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Bittersweet
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Studio album by
Carmen McRae
Released1964 (1964)
RecordedMay 20, 1964 [1]
Genre Vocal jazz
Length43:10
Label Focus
Producer Mort Fega
Carmen McRae chronology
Live at Sugar Hill
(1963)		Bittersweet
(1964)		 Second to None
(1964)
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Bittersweet is a studio album by American singer Carmen McRae, released in 1964 on producer Mort Feghi's independent label Focus Records and distributed by Atlantic Records. The album received critical acclaim. [2] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 3:50
  2. "How Did He Look?" (Gladys Shelley, Abner Silver) – 3:08
  3. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:36
  4. "The Meaning of the Blues" (Bobby Troup, Leah Worth) – 2:49
  5. "If You Could Love Me" (Norman Simmons) – 2:08
  6. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 6:21
  7. "Second Chance" (Dory Langdon, André Previn) – 3:37
  8. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 2:52
  9. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen) – 2:44
  10. "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy) – 3:23
  11. "Ghost of Yesterday" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 3:09
  12. "I'm Lost" (Otis René) – 2:53
  13. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 2:40

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Carmen McRae - The 1960's". Jazz Discography. August 22, 2006. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. "Bittersweet Review". AllMusic . Retrieved September 8, 2024.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). "McRae, Carmen". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-1561592371.
  4. ↑ "Albums Reviews". Billboard . Vol. 76, no. 30. July 25, 1964. ISSN   0006-2510.
  5. ↑ "Cash Box Album Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box . July 18, 1964. ISSN   0008-7289.
  6. ↑ "Album Reviews" (PDF). Record World . July 18, 1964. p. 10. ISSN   0034-1622.
  7. ↑ Williams, Ted (June 12, 1965). "New LP's of Note" (PDF). Record World . p. 9. ISSN   0034-1622.
  8. ↑ Hentoff, Nat (November 1964). "Carmen McRae: The Best in Jazz Today" (PDF). Hi Fi/Stereo Review . Vol. 13, no. 4. p. 68. ISSN   0039-1220.
  9. ↑ Gleason, Ralph J. (1964). Bittersweet (liner notes). Carmen McRae. US: Focus Records. FM 334.
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