Songs I Love to Sing (Brook Benton album)

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Songs I Love to Sing
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Released1960
Recorded1960
Genre Traditional pop
Length37:01
Label Mercury MG-20602 [1]
Producer Clyde Otis

Songs I Love to Sing is a 1960 studio album by the American singer Brook Benton, arranged and conducted by Belford Hendricks and produced by Clyde Otis. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn (songwriter), Karl Suessdorf) – 3:40
  2. "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:28
  3. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 3:07
  4. "If You Are But a Dream" (Nat Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe) – 3:10
  5. "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy) – 2:57
  6. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 3:06
  7. "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" (Bennie Benjamin, Frankie Carle, George David Weiss) – 3:17
  8. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) – 2:57
  9. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:57
  10. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) – 2:28
  11. "I Don't Know Enough About You" (Dave Barbour, Peggy Lee) – 4:29
  12. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:25

Personnel

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