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I Can't Help It (album)

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Released
  
1992

Label
  
Impulse!/GRP

Release date
  
1992

Length
  
63:36

Artist
  
Betty Carter

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 1958 – April 25, 1960

I Can't Help It (1958–60)
  
The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (1960)

Similar
  
The Betty Carter Album, The Modern Sound of, Out There, Droppin' Things, Whatever Happened to Love?

I Can't Help It is a 1992 Betty Carter compilation album. It contains all the tracks from her albums Out There with Betty Carter (Peacock Records, 1958) and The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (ABC-Paramount Records, 1960). The same combination of tracks had previously been released as a double LP by ABC Records under the title What a Little Moonlight Can Do.

Contents

The title track, "I Can't Help It," was the first of Carter's own compositions that she recorded.

Track listing

  1. "I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:44
  2. "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards) – 2:07
  3. "Babe's Blues" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 2:49
  4. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:30
  5. "But Beautiful" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:58
  6. "All I Got" (David Cole) – 2:15
  7. "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" (Walter Donaldson) – 1:45
  8. "Foul Play" (Norman Mapp) – 2:21
  9. "On the Isle of May" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:02
  10. "Make It Last" (Dick Haymes, Bill Paxton) – 4:30
  11. "The Bluebird of Happiness" (Sandor Harmati, Edward Heyman) – 1:30
  12. "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:37
  13. "For You" (Burke, Dubin) – 2:20
  14. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:04
  15. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
  16. "At Sundown" (Donaldson) – 2:42
  17. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:04
  18. "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:22
  19. "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:55
  20. "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Mapp) – 1:56
  21. "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:08
  22. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:21
  23. "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:47
  24. "Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:00

Personnel

Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 1–6):

  • Betty Carter – vocals
  • Ray Copeland – trumpet, arranger
  • Melba Liston – trombone, arranger
  • Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
  • Wynton Kelly – piano
  • Peck Morrison – bass
  • Specs Wright – drums

    • Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 7–12):

  • Betty Carter – vocals
  • Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland – trumpets
  • Melba Liston – trombone
  • Gigi Gryce, Jimmy Powell – alto saxophones
  • Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
  • Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone
  • Wynton Kelly – piano
  • Sam Jones – bass

    • Arrangements by Copeland, Liston, Gryce, Golson & Tommy Bryce

    Recorded August 18, 29, & 30, 1960, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 13–24):

  • Betty Carter – vocals
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Weiss

    • Songs

    1I Can't Help It2:49
    2By the Bend of the River2:10
    3Babe's Blues2:54

    References

    I Can't Help It (album) Wikipedia
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