What Every Girl Should Know (album)

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What Every Girl Should Know
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ReleasedMarch 21, 1960
RecordedDecember 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.

Contents

The album was combined with Day's 1961 album, I Have Dreamed , on a compact disc, issued in 2001.

Track listing

The tracks on the album were:

No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
1."What Every Girl Should Know" Robert Wells, David Jack Holt December 11, 19593:01
2."Mood Indigo" Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Barney Bigard December 11, 19593:53
3."When You're Smiling" Mark Fisher, Larry Shay, Joe GoodwinDecember 17, 19592:38
4."A Fellow Needs a Girl" Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers December 11, 19593:11
5."My Kinda Love"Jo Trent, Louis AlterDecember 17, 19592:45
6."What's the Use of Wond'rin'?"Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard RodgersDecember 11, 19592:36
7."Something Wonderful"Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard RodgersDecember 22, 19592:51
8."A Hundred Years from Today" Ned Washington, Victor Young, Joe Young December 17, 19593:34
9."You Can't Have Everything"Mack Gordon, Harry RevelDecember 17, 1959 
10."Not Only Should You Love Him"Sid RobinDecember 22, 1959 
11."What Does a Woman Do?"Allie Wrubel, Maxwell AndersonDecember 22, 1959 
12."The Everlasting Arms" Paul Francis Webster, Martin BroonesDecember 22, 1959 

Personnel

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References

  1. What Every Girl Should Know at AllMusic
  2. "What Every Girl Should Know" . Retrieved 14 July 2013.