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Released | March 21, 1960 | |||
Recorded | December 1959 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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What Every Girl Should Know is an album recorded by Doris Day in December, 1959 and issued by Columbia Records on March 21, 1960 as catalog number CS-8234. Doris Day was backed by Harry Zimmerman's Orchestra.
The album was combined with Day's 1961 album, I Have Dreamed , on a compact disc, issued in 2001.
The tracks on the album were:
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "What Every Girl Should Know" | Robert Wells, David Jack Holt | December 11, 1959 | 3:01 |
2. | "Mood Indigo" | Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Barney Bigard | December 11, 1959 | 3:53 |
3. | "When You're Smiling" | Mark Fisher, Larry Shay, Joe Goodwin | December 17, 1959 | 2:38 |
4. | "A Fellow Needs a Girl" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers | December 11, 1959 | 3:11 |
5. | "My Kinda Love" | Jo Trent, Louis Alter | December 17, 1959 | 2:45 |
6. | "What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers | December 11, 1959 | 2:36 |
7. | "Something Wonderful" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers | December 22, 1959 | 2:51 |
8. | "A Hundred Years from Today" | Ned Washington, Victor Young, Joe Young | December 17, 1959 | 3:34 |
9. | "You Can't Have Everything" | Mack Gordon, Harry Revel | December 17, 1959 | |
10. | "Not Only Should You Love Him" | Sid Robin | December 22, 1959 | |
11. | "What Does a Woman Do?" | Allie Wrubel, Maxwell Anderson | December 22, 1959 | |
12. | "The Everlasting Arms" | Paul Francis Webster, Martin Broones | December 22, 1959 |
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