Hummin' to Myself (Dave Van Ronk album)

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Hummin' to Myself
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Studio album by
Released1990
RecordedHome Base Studios, New York, NY
Genre Folk
Length48:32
Label Gazell
Producer Sam Charters
Dave Van Ronk chronology
Let No One Deceive You
(1990)
Hummin' to Myself
(1990)
Peter and the Wolf
(1991)

Hummin' to Myself is a 1990 album of jazz and pop classics recorded by Dave Van Ronk. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 3:31
  2. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:15
  3. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:21
  4. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:14
  5. "Hummin' to Myself" (Sammy Fain, Herb Magidson, Monty Siegel) – 5:24
  6. "Hong Kong Blues" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 3:30
  7. "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 4:32
  8. "The Fresno Shuffle" (Erik Frandsen) – 2:45
  9. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 4:22
  10. "Two Sleepy People" (Carmichael, Frank Loesser) – 3:35
  11. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:28
  12. "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" (Louis Alter, Eddie DeLange) – 3:45
  13. "Jack, You're Dead!" (Walter Bishop, Dick Miles) – 2:50

Personnel

Production notes

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