Thanks for Nothing (Rosemary Clooney album)

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Thanks for Nothing
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Released1964
Recorded1964
Genre Vocal jazz
Label Reprise
Producer Sonny Burke
Rosemary Clooney chronology
Love
(1963)
Thanks for Nothing
(1964)
That Travelin' Two-Beat
(1965)
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Thanks for Nothing is a 1964 studio album by American jazz singer Rosemary Clooney.

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As the sole album that Clooney recorded for Reprise Records, Thanks for Nothing would mark Clooney's last solo studio work until 1976's Look My Way . [2]

Track listing

  1. "Hello Faithless" (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:19
  2. "The Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:34
  3. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 2:32
  4. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin) – 2:27
  5. "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:43
  6. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (Eddie Green) – 2:28
  7. "Baby, the Ball Is Over" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence) – 2:11
  8. "The Man That Got Away" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) – 4:16
  9. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:16
  10. "Miss Otis Regrets" (Porter) – 3:03
  11. "Thanks for Nothing (At All)" (Jerry Gladstone, John Rotella) – 3:06
  12. "Careless Love" (W.C. Handy, Martha E. Koenig, Spencer Williams) – 2:07

Personnel

Performance

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