Day Dreams (June Christy album)

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Day Dreams
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Compilation album by
Released2012 (2012)
Genre Jazz
Label Capitol
June Christy chronology
Uncollected June Christy Volume Two
(1987)
Day Dreams
(2012)
Through the Years
(1995)

Day Dreams is an album collecting examples of American jazz vocalist June Christy's 78-rpm and 45-rpm recordings from the 1940s and 1950s, mostly from her pre-Something Cool days. [1]

Track listing

  1. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington, Henry Nemo, John Redmond, Irving Mills) - 2:44
  2. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:45
  3. "Day Dream" (Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, John La Touche) - 2:44.
  4. "Little Grass Shack" (Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison & Johnny Noble) - 3:03
  5. "Skip Rope" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee) - 2:48
  6. "I'll Bet You Do" (Lorenzo Pack) - 2:59
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 2:47
  8. "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) - 3:00
  9. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:14
  10. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:43
  11. "Somewhere (If Not In Heaven)" (Kenny Burrell) - 3:06
  12. "A Mile Down The Highway (There's A Toll Bridge)" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) - 2:25
  13. "Do It Again" (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva) - 2:54
  14. "He Can Come Back Anytime He Wants To" (Johnny Lehman) - 2:51
  15. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) - 3:35
  16. "You're Blasé" (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Sievier) - 3:39

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References

  1. "Day Dreams - June Christy | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-01-06.