Once Over Lightly

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Once Over Lightly
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Studio album by Jo Stafford
Released January 1, 1957
Genre Traditional pop
Label Columbia
Jo Stafford chronology
Ski Trails
(1956)
Once Over Lightly
(1957)
Swingin' Down Broadway
(1958)
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Once Over Lightly is a 1957 album by Jo Stafford. On this album she is accompanied by Art Van Damme Quintet. [2] Once Over Lightly was released on the Columbia label.

1957 in music Overview of the events of 1957 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957.

Jo Stafford American singer

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, the record becoming the first by a female artist to reach number one on the U.K. Singles Chart.

Art Van Damme American musician

Art Van Damme was an American jazz accordionist.

Track listing

  1. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:50
  2. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:06
  3. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:49
  4. "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Eric Maschwitz) - 3:25
  5. "Mine" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:30
  6. "The Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) - 3:27
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) - 3:03
  8. "You're Mine, You" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 2:18
  9. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:52
  10. "My Old Flame" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) -3:19
  11. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:14
  12. "One for My Baby" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 3:49

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References

  1. Once Over Lightly at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  2. "Once Over Lightly-credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 September 2011.