Boy Meets Girl (Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae album)

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Boy Meets Girl
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Released1957
RecordedFebruary 18, 19, 1957
Genre Vocal jazz
Length37:28
Label Decca
Producer Ken Drunker
Sammy Davis Jr., Carmen McRae chronology
It's All Over but the Swingin'
(1957)
Boy Meets Girl
(1957)
Mood to Be Wooed
(1958)
Carmen McRae chronology
Blue Moon
(1956)
Boy Meets Girl
(1957)
After Glow
(1957)
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Boy Meets Girl is a 1957 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance" (Frank Loesser) – 3:14
  2. "Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 2:37
  3. "They Didn't Believe Me" (Jerome Kern, Herbert Reynolds) – 2:56
  4. "You're the Top" (Cole Porter) – 3:05
  5. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 4:00
  6. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Loesser) – 3:14
  7. "People Will Say We're in Love" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:19
  8. "There's a Small Hotel" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) – 3:30
  9. "A Fine Romance" (Dorothy Fields, Kern) – 2:55
  10. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:09
  11. "Two Sleepy People" (Hoagy Carmichael, Loesser) – 2:53
  12. "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:36

Personnel

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