Playtime (album)

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Playtime
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Released1961
RecordedOctober 3–4, 1960
Genre Jazz
Length48:39
Label Argo
LP-676
Producer Jack Tracy
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Playtime is a 1961 studio album by Buddy Rich. [2]

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Lulu's Back in Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 5:53
  2. "Playtime" (Sam Most) – 6:14
  3. "Will You Still Be Mine?" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:45
  4. "Fascinating Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:39

LP side B

  1. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:26
  2. "Marbles" (Johnny Morris, Most) – 5:51
  3. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 5:10
  4. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 6:15

Personnel

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