Cool Christy

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Cool Christy
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Compilation album by
Released2002 (2002)
Genre Jazz
Label Proper Records Ltd
June Christy chronology
Live at the Newport Jazz Festival with Stan Kenton
(1999)
Cool Christy
(2002)
Something Cool - 101 Essential June Christy
(2012)

Cool Christy is a 2002 double-CD compilation of recordings by jazz vocalist June Christy from 1945 to 1951.

Contents

Disc one

  1. "Tampico" (Gene Roland)
  2. "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn)
  3. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  4. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis)
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll)
  6. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill)
  7. "Hay Lawdy Papa" (Gene Roland)
  8. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Andy Razaf, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb)
  9. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
  10. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  11. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler)
  12. "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert)
  13. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman)
  14. "September in the Rain" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
  15. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)
  16. "Make Love to Me" (Paul Mann, Stephen Weiss, Kim Gannon)
  17. "Supper Time" (Irving Berlin)
  18. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
  19. "I've Got a Guy" (Marion Sunshine)
  20. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
  21. "This Is Romance" (Vernon Duke, Edward Heyman)
  22. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills)
  23. "I'm Thrilled" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
  24. "You're Blasé" (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Siever)
  25. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Walter Hirsh, Benny Goodman)

Personnel

Disc two

  1. "The One I Love" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)
  2. "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange)
  3. "How Long Has This Been Going On? (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  4. "Rika Jika Jack" (Eric Dawson, Maxine Sullivan, Walter Hagen)
  5. "I'd Be Lost Without You" (Sunny Skylar)
  6. "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight" (Billy Reid, Mack Gordon)
  7. "His Feet Too Big for the Bed" (Hernan Brana, Dick Sanford, Sammy Mysels)
  8. "Don't Want That Man Around" (Joe Rizzo, Sam Braude, Sam Volk)
  9. "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene)
  10. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
  11. "Skip Rope" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
  12. "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn)
  13. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
  14. "Curiosity" (Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney, Sam Ward)
  15. "He Was a Good Man as Good Men Go" (Teddy Powell)
  16. "Lonely Woman" (Benny Carter, Zola Sonin)
  17. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
  18. "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair)
  19. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye)
  20. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
  21. "A Mile Down the Highway (There's a Toll Bridge)" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard)
  22. "Do It Again" (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva)
  23. "He Can Come Back Anytime He Wants To" (Johnny Lehman)
  24. "Easy Street" (Alan Rankin Jones)

Personnel

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