The Sound of Spring

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The Sound of Spring
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Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedFebruary 14 & 15, 1962
StudioUnited Recordings Studio, Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz
Label Argo
LP 693
Producer Leonard Chess, Ruth Brown
Ramsey Lewis chronology
Sound of Christmas
(1961)
The Sound of Spring
(1962)
Country Meets the Blues
(1962)
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The Sound of Spring is an album of compositions related to springtime by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, recorded in 1962 and released on the Argo label. [4]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Ramsey Lewis except as indicated

  1. "Sound of Spring" - 2:30
  2. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 4:25
  3. "Blue Spring" - 3:00
  4. "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:22
  5. "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (Frank Loesser) - 2:43
  6. "Spring Fever" - 2:35
  7. "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rogers) - 3:52
  8. "Soft Winds" (Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson) - 3:10
  9. "There'll Be Another Spring" (Peggy Lee, Hubie Wheeler) - 2:30
  10. "Truly, Truly Spring" (Eldee Young) - 3:27

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic Review accessed October 9, 2012
  2. DownBeat:September 27, 1962 Vol. 29, No.25
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 214.
  4. Argo Records discography accessed October 9, 2012