Rosie Swings Softly

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Rosie Swings Softly
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Studio album by Rosemary Clooney
Released 1960
Recorded 1960
Genre Vocal jazz
Length31:01
Label Verve
Rosemary Clooney chronology
Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
(1959) Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!1959
Rosie Swings Softly
(1960)
Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle!
(1961) Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle!1961
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Rosie Swings Softly is a 1960 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, recorded originally by MGM Records. [2]

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. "For You" ( Joe Burke, Al Dubin) – 1:56
  2. "Always Together" (Heino Gaze, Carl Sigman) – 2:48
  3. "You Ol' Son of a Gun" (Danny Arnold, Hal Dickinson, Jack Lloyd) – 2:33
  4. "I Wonder" (Gilbert) – 2:49
  5. "Always Be in Love" (Ian Bernard) – 2:24
  6. "Grieving for You" (Joe Gibson, Jack Gold, Joe Ribaud) – 2:48
  7. "With You and Me" (Bernard) – 2:22
  8. "Looking For a Boy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:13
  9. "With the Night" (Bernard) – 2:59
  10. "Love Eyes" (Moose Charlap, Norman Gimbel) – 2:31
  11. "Sorry for Myself" (Charlap, Gimbel) – 2:40
  12. "Keep It Simple" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 2:58

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