It's All Over but the Swingin'

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It's All Over but the Swingin'
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Released1957
RecordedJuly 1–2, 9–10, 1957
Genre Jazz
Length43.13
Label Decca
Producer Lee Gillette
Sammy Davis, Jr. chronology
Sammy Swings
(1957)
It's All Over but the Swingin'
(1957)
Boy Meets Girl
(1957)
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It's All Over but the Swingin is a 1957 album by Sammy Davis, Jr., arranged by Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 4:43
  2. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:24
  3. "Where's That Rainbow?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:27
  4. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:19
  5. "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:52
  6. "Better Luck Next Time" (Irving Berlin) – 2:43
  7. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Gal" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:53
  8. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:05
  9. "Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:23
  10. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:47
  11. "Spring Is Here" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:03
  12. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, I. Gershwin) – 3:29

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. It's All Over but the Swingin at AllMusic
  3. Barnes, Ken (1998). It's All Over but the Swingin' & I Gotta Right to Swing (album liner notes). Universal Records.