Where Are You Going (album)

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Where Are You Going
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Studio album by
Released1973
Genre Jazz
Label Perception PLP 31 [1]
Producer Boo Frazier
Shirley Horn chronology
Travelin' Light
(1965)
Where Are You Going
(1973)
A Lazy Afternoon
(1978)

Where Are You Going is a 1973 album by Shirley Horn. [2]

Contents

The album was reissued with Dizzy Gillespie's 1969 album The Real Thing on CD in 1996. [2] Billboard magazine featured the album as a "Radio Action and Pick LP" in their February 17, 1973 issue. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Where Are You Going" – 4:19
  2. "Something Happens to Me" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:11
  3. "Come on Home" – 2:23
  4. "Do It Again" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin) – 7:02
  5. "The Eagle and Me" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 2:50
  6. "Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) – 5:39
  7. "L.A. Breakdown" (Larry Marks) – 4:48
  8. "Consequences of a Drug Addict Role" (Shirley Horn) – 6:00

Personnel

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References

  1. "Shirley Horn – Where Are You Going". Discogs.com. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Where Are You Going at AllMusic
  3. "Radio Action & Pick LPs". Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 7. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 17, 1973. p. 76. ISSN   0006-2510.