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| Released | 1956 | |||
| Genre | Pop standard | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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On the Sunny Side is an LP album by The Four Lads released by Columbia Records as catalog number CL 912 in 1956, [1] containing mostly popular standard songs.
| Track number | Song | Songwriter(s) | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On The Sunny Side Of The Street | Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields | 2:01 |
| 2 | The Things We Did Last Summer | Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn | 3:35 |
| 3 | Taking A Chance On Love | Vernon Duke/John Latouche/Ted Fetter | 2:08 |
| 4 | Bidin' My Time | George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin | 3:15 |
| 5 | Makin' Whoopee | Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn | 2:37 |
| 6 | Sentimental Journey | Les Brown/Ben Homer/Bud Green | 2:56 |
| 7 | These Foolish Things | Harry Link/Holt Marvell/Jack Strachey | 3:32 |
| 8 | Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams | Harry Barris/Ted Koehler/Billy Moll | 2:27 |
| 9 | Dancing In The Dark | Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz | 3:01 |
| 10 | Lazy River | Hoagy Carmichael/Sidney Arodin | 2:26 |
| 11 | The Way You Look Tonight | Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields | 3:23 |
| 12 | Side By Side | Harry Woods/Gus Kahn | 2:56 |
The album, combined with the Four Lads' 1958 album Breezin' Along, was reissued in compact disc form by Collectables Records on January 16, 2001.
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