My Kind of Town (album)

My Kind of Town
Studio album by Jack Jones
Released	Early 1965
Recorded	1965 [1]
Genre	Early Pop Easy Listening Vocal
Length	33 minutes 26 seconds
Label	Kapp Records (KL 1433, KS 3433) [2]
Producer	Michael Kapp
Jack Jones chronology
Dear Heart (1965) My Kind of Town (1965) There's Love & There's Love & There's Love (1965)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

My Kind of Town is a studio album by American singer Jack Jones released in early 1965 on Kapp Records.

Overview

My Kind of Town was the second of five albums that Jones released in 1965, with it being shortly released after his hit single "The Race Is On", which topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart. The album was produced by Michael Kapp himself and arranged by Marty Paich, Don Costa and Glenn Osser. ^[1] The album featured covers of recent pop hits and other standards, as well as his own songs.

Chart performance

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated May 8, 1965, peaking at No. 29 during a twenty-two-week run on the chart. ^[4] It debuted on Cashbox magazine's Top 100 Albums chart in the issue also dated May 8, 1965, peaking at No. 31 during a seventeen-week run on the chart. ^[5]

Reception

Jason Ankeny on AllMusic reviewed the album and stated, "My Kind of Town hangs together as a cohesive listening experience", continuing that "The rotating arrangers emphasize Jones' range and scope - by turns ebullient and melancholy, the songs are rendered with absolute purity of expression." ^[1]

Track listing

Side One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Kind of Town"	Sammy Cahn / Jimmy Van Heusen	2:56
2.	"Somewhere Along the Way"	Kurt Adams / Sammy Gallop	3:32
3.	"More"	Norman Newell / Gaetano Oliviero / Riz Ortolani	3:26
4.	"The Race Is On"	Don Rollins	1:47
5.	"I Can't Believe I'm Losing You"	Domenico Costa / Don Costa / Philip Zeller	2:42
6.	"Travellin' On"	Larry Fotine	3:21

Side Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"The One I Love"	Isham Jones / Gus Kahn	2:42
8.	"Yes, I Can"	Lee Adams / Charles Strouse	2:51
9.	"I'm All Smiles"	Michael Leonard / Herbert Martin	2:27
10.	"I Must Know"	Neal Hefti / Lil Mattis / Lillian Mattis	2:07
11.	"Time After Time"	Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne	3:03
12.	"King of the Road"	Roger Miller	2:32
Total length:			33:26

Charts

Album

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs [4]	29
US Cashbox Top 100 Albums [5]	31

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
1965	"The Race Is On"	US Billboard Hot 100 [6]	15
		US Easy Listening [7]	1
		US Cashbox [8]	12
		CAN RPM Top Singles [9]	12
		CAN Adult Contemporary [10]	8
	"Travellin' On"	US Billboard Bubbling Under [11]	132

References

1. Ankeny, Jason. "Jack Jones - My Kind of Town - Reviews and information". AllMusic . Retrieved November 29, 2025.
2. Cashbox magazine, November 12, 1966. Basic album inventory
3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 766. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 11 March 2025.
4. Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1945–1972. Record Research. p. 75. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
5. Hoffmann, Frank W. (1975). The Cash Box Album Charts, 1955–1974. Scarecrow Press. p. 187. Retrieved November 30, 2025.
6. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Joel Whitburn's top pop singles 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wisc.: Record Research. p. 366. ISBN   0898201551.
7. Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn presents Billboard top adult songs, 1961-2006. Menomonee Falls, Wis. : Record Research Inc. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-89820-169-7.
8. Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. p. 182. ISBN   1-56308-316-7.
9. "RPM Weekly - Top Singles Chart Search: Jack Jones". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2025. Database in transition; page content may be relocated or archived.
10. "RPM Weekly - Adult Contemporary Chart Search: Jack Jones". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. 17 July 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
11. Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981. Menomonee Falls, Wis: Record Research. p. 88. ISBN   978-0-8982-0047-8.