Songs of Chelsea

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Songs of Chelsea
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Studio album by
Released1988
Genre Jazz, cool jazz
Label Daffodil
Blossom Dearie chronology
Chez Wahlberg: Part One
(1985)
Songs of Chelsea
(1988)
Tweedledum & Tweedledee (Two People Who Resemble Each Other, in this Case Musically)
(1991)
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Songs of Chelsea is a 1988 studio album by Blossom Dearie.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Attorney Bernie" (Dave Frishberg)
  2. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  3. "C'est le printemps" (Rodgers, Jean Sablon)
  4. "When in Rome" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh)
  5. "Let the Flower Grow" (Jay Leonhart)
  6. "My New Celebrity Is You" (Johnny Mercer)
  7. "What Time Is It Now" (Blossom Dearie, Jack Segal)
  8. "You Fascinate Me So" (Coleman, Leigh)
  9. "Moonlight Saving Time" (Irving Kahal, Harry Richman)
  10. "Chelsea Aire" (Walter Birchett, Dearie)

Personnel

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