Rules of the Road (Anita O'Day album)

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Rules of the Road
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedMarch 29–30, 1993
Genre Vocal jazz
Length64:33
Label Pablo
Producer Buddy Bregman
Anita O'Day chronology
Live in Person
(1993)
Rules of the Road
(1993)
Wave: Live at Ronnie Scott's
(1993)
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Rules of the Road is a 1993 studio album by Anita O'Day. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:29
  2. Medley: "Black Coffee"/"Detour Ahead" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster)/(Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo) – 5:18
  3. "Shaking the Blues Away" (Irving Berlin) – 3:43
  4. "Music That Makes Me Dance" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 5:40
  5. "As Long as There's Music" (Sammy Cahn, Styne) – 4:11
  6. "Sooner or Later" (Fred Ebb, Stephen Sondheim) – 5:00
  7. "What Is a Man?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:28
  8. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:40
  9. "It's You or No One" (Cahn, Styne) – 5:15
  10. "I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out" (Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo) – 3:48
  11. "Didn't We?" (Jimmy Webb) – 4:41
  12. "Nobody Does It Better" (Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager) – 5:13
  13. "Soon It's Gonna Rain" (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) – 4:44
  14. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) – 5:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1094. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Rules of the Road at AllMusic