Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day

Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
Studio album by Anita O'Day
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
Anita O'Day chronology
This is Anita (1956) Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day (1957) Anita Sings the Most (1957)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]

Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day is a 1957 album by Anita O'Day, featuring performances with the Buddy Bregman orchestra and Harry "Sweets" Edison. ^[2]

Track listing

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

CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

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

Personnel

• Anita O'Day – vocals
• Conte Candoli – trumpet
• Pete Candoli – trumpet
• Harry Edison – trumpet
• Ray Linn – trumpet
• Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
• Lloyd Ulyate – trombone
• Milt Bernhart – trombone
• Frank Rosolino – trombone
• George Roberts – trombone, bass trombone
• Herb Geller – alto saxophone
• Bud Shank – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Georgie Auld – tenor saxophone
• Bob Cooper – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Giuffre – baritone saxophone
• Paul Smith – piano
• Larry Bunker – vibraphone
• Al Hendrickson – guitar
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Joe Mondragon – bass
• Alvin Stoller – drums ^[3]

References

1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1093. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
2. Yanow, Scott. "Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day". AllMusic. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
3. "Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 21, 2018.