CARMEN MCRAE / SOMETHING WONDERFUL + BONUS TRACKS
Salute to Ethel Merman:
01. Blow, Gabriel, Blow / All Through the Night / Anything Goes (Cole Porter) 4:44
Salute to Judy Holiday:
02. Long Before I Knew You / Just In Time (Comden-Green-Styne) 3:18
Salute to Pearl Bailey:
03. Come Rain or Come Shine (Mercer-Arlen) 2:21
Salute to Ella Logan:
04. If This Isnt Love / Look to the Rainbow / That Great Come and Get It Day (Lane-Harburg) 3:55
Salute to Mary Martin:
05. A Wonderful Guy (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 1:10
Salute to Jo Sullivan:
06. Dont Cry / I Like Evrybody / Warm All Over (Frank Loesser) 5:09
Salute to Dolores Gray:
07. Give a Little, Get a Little / There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby (Comden-Green-Styne) 3:40
Salute to Gertrude Lawrence:
08. Getting to Know You / Hello Young Lover / Something Wonderful (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 3:53
Bonus Tracks:
09. So Long (Melsher-Harris-Morgan) 3:01
10. How Does the Wine Taste? (Dubey-Karr) 2:19
11. Night Life (Strouse-Adams) 2:44
12. Baby, Baby (Liptoin-Berkowitz) 2:14
13. Am I Going Out of Your Mind? (Tobias-Tridman) 1:45
14. Im Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key (Easton-Shand) 2:40
15. Trouble Is a Man (Alec Wilder) 3:30
16. If You Never Fall In Love with Me (Sam Jones) 3:36
17. Round Midnight (Monk-Hendricks) 4:30
18. Love For Sale (Cole Porter) 4:28 / Exactly Like You (McHugh-Fields) outro 0:25
Album details
Sources:Tracks #1-8, from the LP "Something Wonderful Interpretations of Great Moments on Broadway" (Columbia CS8743)
Track #9, from the 12 LP The Giants of Jazz (Columbia CS8770)
Tracks #10 & 11, from the single (Columbia 4-42376)
Tracks #12 & 13, from the single (Columbia 4-42642)
Tracks #14 & 19, from the TV program Jazz Casual
Personnel:
Carmen McRae sings in all tracks accompanied by
Tracks #1-8: Buddy Bregmans Orchestra
New York City, June 22 & July 11, 1962
Tracks #9-11: Orchestra arranged and conducted by Marty Paich
Los Angeles, February 6, 1962
Tracks #12-13: Unidentified quartet (p, g, b, d)
New York City, 1962
Tracks #14-18: Norman Simmons (p), Victor Sproles (b), Walter Perkins (d)
Recorded during the TV show Jazz Casual TV show, KOED Television Studios, San Francisco, March 15, 1962
Columbia recordings produced by Teo Macero
Jazz Casual TV show produced by Ralph Gleason
Original cover photo by Henry Parker
This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol
Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
