Never on Sunday (album)

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Never on Sunday
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Released1961
RecordedAugust 10 & 11, 1961
StudioUniversal Recording Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Label Argo
LP 686
Producer Leonard Chess
Ramsey Lewis chronology
More Music from the Soil
(1961)
Never on Sunday
(1961)
Sound of Christmas
(1961)

Never on Sunday is an album by Ramsey Lewis' Trio featuring tracks recorded in 1961 and released on the Argo label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Pianist Ramsey Lewis, bassist Eldee Young, and drummer Red Holt had one of the most popular groups in jazz of the era, playing soulful and melodic versions of standards that were both swinging and accessible". [2]

Track listing

  1. "The Ripper" (Ramsey Lewis) - 2:00
  2. "I Got Plenty of Nothing'" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:39
  3. "Water Boy" (Traditional) - 3:00
  4. "Thanks for the Memory" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:32
  5. "Celito Lindo" (Traditional) - 2:35
  6. "You Just Don't Care" (El Dee Young) - 3:08
  7. "Never on Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis) - 2:10
  8. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) - 4:09
  9. "The Breeze and I" (Ernesto Lecuona, Al Stillman) - 2:36
  10. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:34

Personnel

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References

  1. Argo Records discography accessed October 8, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 8, 2012