Sleeping Gypsy (album)

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Sleeping Gypsy
Michael Franks Sleeping Gypsy CD.jpg
Studio album by
Michael Franks
Released
  • 22 January 1977 on vinyl
  • 1990 (1990) on CD
Genre Jazz
Length38:49
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Tommy LiPuma
Michael Franks chronology
The Art of Tea
(1976)		Sleeping Gypsy
(1977)		 Burchfield Nines
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide B [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Sleeping Gypsy is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1977 with Warner Bros. Records. [4] It was Franks' third studio album after The Art of Tea and prior to Burchfield Nines .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Franks, unless otherwise stated

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Lady Wants to Know"4:45
2."I Really Hope It's You"4:54
3."In the Eye of the Storm"5:55
4."B'wana-He No Home"4:57
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Be Blue"Michael Franks, John Guerin 3:28
2."Antonio's Song (The Rainbow)" 5:03
3."Chain Reaction"Michael Franks, Joe Sample 5:14
4."Down in Brazil" 4:33

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References

  1. ↑ "AllMusic review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved February 24, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  79. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ "Discography in Order of Release". MichaelFranks.com. Retrieved 2012-01-26.

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