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How About This

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Released
  
1968

Length
  
31:11

Release date
  
1968

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
1968

Artists
  
Kay Starr, Count Basie

Label
  
Paramount Records

Producer
  
Dick Peirce, Teddy Reig and Tom Mack

How About This (1968)
  
Standing Ovation (1969)

Similar
  
The Happiest Millionaire, The Board of Directors Annual R, Standing Ovation, HollywoodBasie's Way, Basie's Beat

How About This is an album by vocalist Kay Starr and pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Paramount Records label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars.

Track listing

  1. "I Get the Blues When It Rains" (Marcy Klauber, Harry Stoddard) - 3:04
  2. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) - 3:02
  3. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 2:48
  4. "Ain't No Use" (Leroy Kirkland, Sidney Wyche) – 2:46
  5. "Keep Smiling at Trouble (Trouble's a Bubble)" (Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, Al Jolson) - 1:58
  6. "If I Could Be with You" (James P. Johnson, Henry Creamer) - 2:41
  7. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 2:46
  8. "Hallelujah I Love Him So" (Ray Charles) - 2:59
  9. "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson) - 3:07
  10. "Goodtime Girl" (Scott Davis) - 3:00
  11. "A Cottage for Sale" (Willard Robison, Larry Conley) - 3:00

Personnel

  • Kay Starr - vocals
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Al Aarons, Oscar Brashear, Gene Coe, Sonny Cohn - trumpet
  • Richard Boone, Steve Galloway, Grover Mitchell - trombone
  • Bill Hughes - bass trombone
  • Bobby Plater - alto saxophone, flute
  • Marshal Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
  • Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
  • Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Norman Keenan - bass
  • Harold Jones - drums
  • Dick Hyman - arranger, conductor

    • References

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