Do-Re-Mi (June Christy and Bob Cooper album)

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Do-Re-Mi
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Studio album by
June Christy and Bob Cooper
Released1961 (1961)
Recorded6 February 1961 (1961-02-06)
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz, Vocal jazz
Length33:19
Label Capitol
Producer Bill Miller
June Christy chronology
Off-Beat
(1960)		Do-Re-Mi
(1961)		 This Time of Year
(1961)
Bob Cooper chronology
Blowin' Country
(1959)		Do-Re-Mi
(1961)		 Tenor Sax Jazz Impressions
(1979)
Professional ratings
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Do-Re-Mi is a 1961 jazz album by June Christy and Bob Cooper, consisting of selections from the Broadway musical Do Re Mi , written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolf Green. Half the tunes are sung by Christy, backed by Cooper and an instrumental group, the other half played by Cooper leading an instrumental group with mostly different personnel.

Contents

The album was re-issued on a double-CD in 2006, together with The Cool School .

Track listing

  1. "Cry Like the Wind"
  2. "Adventure" (instrumental)
  3. "Make Someone Happy"
  4. "Ambition" (instrumental)
  5. "All You Need Is a Quarter"
  6. "All of My Life" (instrumental)
  7. "I Know About Love"
  8. "Fireworks" (instrumental)
  9. "Asking for You"
  10. "It’s Legitimate" (instrumental)

All vocal compositions by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolf Green; all instrumental compositions by Jule Styne.

Personnel

Recorded Capitol Tower, Los Angeles, California, 6 February 1961. (The instrumentals and possibly one or more vocals were recorded on an unknown date, probably also in February 1961.) [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Do-Re-Mi". Allmusic . Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. ↑ Information gathered from the album and the Misty Miss Christy Web site Archived 18 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine .
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