Mavis Meets Shorty

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Mavis Meets Shorty
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Studio album by
Released1963
Recorded1962
Genre Jazz
Label Reprise
R 6074
Producer Chuck Sagle
Shorty Rogers chronology
Jazz Waltz
(1963)
Mavis Meets Shorty
(1963)
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(1963)

Mavis Meets Shorty is an album by vocalist Mavis Rivers and trumpeter Shorty Rogers, released on the Reprise label in 1963. [1]

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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars. [2]

Track listing

  1. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) - 2:07
  2. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) - 2:59
  3. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Jack Segal, Marvin Fischer) - 2:23
  4. "Nothing But the Best" (Johnny Rotella) - 2:43
  5. "I Feel So Smoochie" (Phil Moore) - 2:34
  6. "Im Gonna Live Till I Die" (Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Curtis) - 3:07
  7. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:33
  8. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) - 3:02
  9. "Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Jon Hendricks, Jessie Cavanaugh) - 2:14
  10. "My Shining Hour" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 1:48
  11. "By Myself" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 1:56
  12. "Get Out of Town" (Porter) - 2:08

Personnel

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