Wonderful Life (Irene Kral album)

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Wonderful Life
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Studio album by
Irene Kral
Released1965
Recorded1965
Los Angeles, CA
Genre Vocal jazz
Label Mainstream
56058/S 6058
Producer Harry Ringer
Irene Kral chronology
Better Than Anything
(1963)		Wonderful Life
(1965)		 Where Is Love?
(1974)

Wonderful Life is an album by vocalist Irene Kral which was originally released on the Mainstream label in 1965. [1] [2] [3]

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Track listing

  1. "Wonderful Life" (David Perrin, Lester Boxer) – 1:40
  2. "There Are Days When I Don't Think of You at All" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) – 2:42
  3. "There Is No Right Way" (Wolf, Ruth Batchelor) – 2:20
  4. "Goin' to California" (David "Buck" Wheat, Bill Loughborough) – 2:30
  5. "Is It Over Baby?" (Virginia Fitting) – 2:30
  6. "I've Never Been Anything" (Wolf) – 2:45
  7. "Sometime Ago" (Sergio Mihanovic) – 3:09
  8. "Nothing Like You" (Bob Dorough) – 2:20
  9. "Here I Go Again" (Wolf, Cy Coleman) – 2:55
  10. "Mad at the World" (Bob Florence, Fred Manley) – 1:50
  11. "This Life We've Led" (Wolf, Landesman, Nelson Algren) – 3:52
  12. "Hold Your Head High" (Randy Newman, Jackie DeShannon) – 2:00

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Irene Kral discography, accessed November 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Discography Preview for the Mainstream label, accessed November 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Fitzgerald, M., Irene Kral Leader Entry, accessed November 16, 2016
  4. ↑ Wonderful Life – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
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