Moondreams (Dick Haymes album)

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Moondreams
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Released1957
RecordedApril 13, 16, 18, 23, 1956
Genre Pop, jazz
Label Capitol, T-787
Dick Haymes chronology
Rain or Shine
(1956)
Moondreams
(1957)
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Moondreams is an album from Dick Haymes, released in 1957, arranged & conducted by Ian Bernard. Concert master of the sessions was Felix Slatkin.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)
  2. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul)
  3. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
  4. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer)
  5. "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin)
  6. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern)
  8. "Then I'll Be Tired of You" (Yip Harburg, Arthur Schwartz)
  9. "I Like the Likes of You" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg)
  10. "Moonlight Becomes You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
  11. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
  12. "When I Fall In Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor P. Young)

Recording musicians

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