Like in Love

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Like in Love
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1960
RecordedDecember 5, 7–8, 1959 [1]
Venue Los Angeles
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz
Length25:53
Label Capitol
Producer Dave Cavanaugh, Tom "Tippy" Morgan
Nancy Wilson chronology
Like in Love
(1960)
Something Wonderful
(1960)
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Like in Love! is the debut album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in April 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 1:42
  2. "Night Mist" (Ahmad Jamal) - 2:34
  3. "You Leave Me Breathless" (Ralph Freed, Frederick Hollander) - 2:27
  4. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:11
  5. "I Want to Be Loved" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Billy Rose) - 2:19 [4]
  6. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Lerner, Loewe) - 1:46
  7. "People Will Say We're in Love" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 1:57
  8. "Passion Flower" (Billy Strayhorn) - 2:23
  9. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 1:46
  10. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:52
  11. "All of You" (Cole Porter) - 1:49
  12. "If It's the Last Thing I Do" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) - 2:07

Personnel

Performance

From The Music of Billy May: A Discography (Greenwood Press, 1998). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mirtle, Jack (1998). The Music of Billy May: A Discography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN   0313307393.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Larkin, Colin (2004). "Nancy Wilson". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (Rev Upd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 941. ISBN   1852271833.
  4. Credits and sleeve notes by Devra Hall to 2007 Capitol compilation The Very Best of Nancy Wilson — The Capitol Recordings 1960–1976.