Arthur Prysock and Count Basie

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Arthur Prysock and Count Basie
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Released1965
Recorded1965
Genre Vocal jazz
Length42:57
Label Verve
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Arthur Prysock and Count Basie
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Arthur Prysock and Count Basie is a 1965 studio album by Arthur Prysock and Count Basie and his orchestra. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Could Have Told You" (Carl Sigman, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:44
  2. "Ain't No Use" (Leroy Kirkland, Sidney Wyche) – 2:45
  3. "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:40
  4. "Gone Again" (Curley Hamner, Lionel Hampton, Curtis Lewis) – 3:09
  5. "Come Home" (Buddy Johnson) – 3:41
  6. "I Worry 'Bout You" (Norman Mapp) – 2:16
  7. "What Will I Tell My Heart?" (Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin) – 2:46
  8. "Don't Go to Strangers" (Redd Evans, Arthur Kent, Dave Mann) – 2:47
  9. "I'm Lost" (Otis René) – 3:21
  10. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"(Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:52
  11. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:21
  12. "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:43 Bonus track on CD reissue; originally on Old Town LP 2011
  13. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:14 Bonus track on CD reissue; originally on Old Town LP 2011
  14. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Nathan "Ned" Miller, Jule Styne) – 2:38 Bonus track on CD reissue; originally on Old Town LP 2011

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

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