Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!

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Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
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Released1960
RecordedFebruary 18–27, 1960
Genre Vocal jazz
Length31:09
Label RCA Victor
Rosemary Clooney chronology
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(1960)
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(1960)
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(1960)
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Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! is a 1960 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, arranged by Bob Thompson and released by RCA Victor. [2] The album earned Clooney a 1961 Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Vocal Performance (Album), but she lost to Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife . [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!"/"Everything's Coming up Rosie" (Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Billy Rose)/(Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) – 2:20
  2. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 2:33
  3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 2:43
  4. "Aren't You Glad You're You?" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:17
  5. "You Got" (Bernard) – 2:44
  6. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard Whiting) – 2:10
  7. "Something's Gotta Give" (Mercer) – 2:20
  8. "Hooray for Love" (Harold Arlen, Leo Robin) – 2:26
  9. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:36
  10. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:14
  11. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:30
  12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:16

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! at AllMusic
  3. "Grammy Award Nominees 1961 – Grammy Award Winners 1961".