Romantically Helpless

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Romantically Helpless
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Studio album by
Released2000
Genre Jazz
Label Alert Records
Producer Stephen Ferrera
Holly Cole chronology
Treasure (1989-1993)
(1998)
Romantically Helpless
(2000)
The Best of Holly Cole
(2000)
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Romantically Helpless is a studio album by Holly Cole. It was released in Canada in 2000 on Alert Records and mastered as an HDCD encoded CD.

Holly Cole Canadian jazz and pop singer

Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.

Alert Music is a recording, publishing, producing, and artist management company founded in 1984 by W. Tom Berry, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was home to Alert Records, an independent record label, which went defunct in 2014.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "One-Trick Pony" (Paul Simon) – 4:41
  2. "Romantically Helpless" (David Piltch) – 3:31
  3. "I'll Be Here" (David Baerwald, David Piltch) – 4:36
  4. "Ghosts" (Randy Newman) – 2:11
  5. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:55
  6. "Dedicated to the One I Love" (Ralph Bass, Lowman Pauling) – 2:53
  7. "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:26
  8. "If I Start to Cry" (Laura Harding, Jeff Hull) – 4:01
  9. "Loving You" (Stephen Sondheim) – 3:00
  10. "Make It Go Away" (Aaron Davis, Laura Harding) – 3:57
  11. "Don't Fence Me In" (Robert Fletcher, Cole Porter) – 3:16
  12. "Same Girl" (Randy Newman) – 3:29

Personnel

David Piltch is a Canadian bassist and session musician.

Production

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References

  1. Romantically Helpless at AllMusic
  2. Bahl, Mathew (1 April 2001). "Holly Cole | Romantically Helpless". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 12 February 2012.