Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads

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Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads
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Released1985
Recorded1985
Genre Jazz
Length42:17
Label Concord
Producer John Burk
Rosemary Clooney chronology
Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Irving Berlin
(1984)
Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads
(1985)
Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Jimmy Van Heusen
(1986)
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Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads is a 1985 album by Rosemary Clooney. [2]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Rosemary Clooney singer and actress from the United States

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Thanks for the Memory" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 5:00
  2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:41
  3. "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:28
  4. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin, Jack Strachey) – 3:13
  5. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:33
  6. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 4:04
  7. "Easy Living" (Rainger, Robin) – 4:26
  8. "Spring Is Here" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:29
  9. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
  10. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:10

Personnel

Warren Vaché is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist born in Rahway, New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist. In 1976 he released his first album. He has often worked with Scott Hamilton and has some popularity among swing audiences.

Scott Hamilton (musician) American musician

Scott Hamilton is an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing and mainstream jazz.

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