Released November, 2004 Artist Linda Ronstadt Label Verve Records | Length 42:57 Release date 9 November 2004 Genres Jazz, Trad jazz | |
Recorded Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York; Capital Studios, Hollywood; Oxford Sound, Nashville. Hummin' to Myself
(2004) Adieu False Heart
(2006) Producers George Massenburg, John Boylan Similar Linda Ronstadt albums, Traditional pop music albums | ||
Hummin’ to Myself is a 2004 traditional jazz album by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart where it remained for six months. It peaked at #166 on the main Billboard album chart and sold nearly 75,000 copies in the United States during its first year.
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Verve Records deleted this item from their catalog in 2016, after twelve years in print.
History
Hummin' to Myself represents a return by Ronstadt to the classic jazz standards world she had explored in a series of 1980s albums with Nelson Riddle, only this time with a band not an orchestra and in a more overtly jazz manner.
Ronstadt sings songs by Frank Loesser (“Never Will I Marry” and “I’ve Never Been in Love Before”) and Cole Porter (“Get out of Town,” “Miss Otis Regrets), and “I Fall in Love Too Easily”, which was sung by Frank Sinatra in the 1944 film Anchors Aweigh.
Hummin’ To Myself received critical acclaim for its devotion to authenticity. It features musicians Alan Broadbent, Christian McBride, David “Fathead” Newman, Lewis Nash, Peter Erskine and Roy Hargrove.
Songs
1Tell Him I Said Hello4:34
2Never Will I Marry2:23
3Cry Me A River4:25