| Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day | ||||
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | January 4 – December 20, 1956 | |||
| Studio | Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 64:16 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz, Anita O'Day | |||
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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |   [1] |
Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day is an album by Anita O'Day that was released in 1957. O'Day sings with the Buddy Bregman orchestra and with Harry "Sweets" Edison. [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Don't Be That Way" | Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson | 2:32 |
| 2. | "Let's Face the Music and Dance" | Irving Berlin | 3:16 |
| 3. | "I Never Had a Chance" | Berlin | 4:22 |
| 4. | "Stompin' at the Savoy" | Goodman, Andy Razaf, Sampson, Chick Webb | 3:18 |
| 5. | "Pick Yourself Up" | Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern | 3:05 |
| 6. | "Stars Fell on Alabama" | Parish, Frank Perkins | 2:51 |
| 7. | "Sweet Georgia Brown" | Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard | 4:13 |
| 8. | "I Won't Dance" | Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Kern, Jimmy McHugh | 3:25 |
| 9. | "Man with a Horn" | Eddie DeLange, Jack Jenney, Bonnie Lake | 3:55 |
| 10. | "I Used to Be Color Blind" | Berlin | 3:09 |
| 11. | "There's a Lull in My Life" | Mack Gordon, Harry Revel | 3:18 |
| 12. | "Let's Begin" | Harbach, Kern | 2:21 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13. | "I'm with You" | Johnny Mercer, Bobby Troup | 2:04 |
| 14. | "The Rock & Roll Waltz" | Shorty Allen, Roy Alfred | 2:44 |
| 15. | "The Getaway and the Chase" | Biff Jones, Charles Meyer | 2:25 |
| 16. | "Your Picture's Hanging Crooked on the Wall" | George R. Brown, William Lava | 2:29 |
| 17. | "We Laughed at Love" | Bourne, Gus Kahn, Messenheimer | 3:09 |
| 18. | "I'm Not Lonely" | Keith, Spence | 3:03 |
| 19. | "Let's Face the Music and Dance" | Berlin | 3:17 |
| 20. | "Ivy" | Hoagy Carmichael | 2:45 |
| 21. | "Stars Fell on Alabama" | Parish, Perkins | 2:48 |
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