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Marlena (Marlena Shaw album)

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Released
  
1972

Length
  
40:52

Producer
  
Dr. George Butler

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Blue Note

Recorded
  
August 10, 11 & 16, 1972

Marlena is an album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded in 1972 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was Shaw's third release and her first for the Blue Note label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 5:08
  2. "Somewhere" (Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein) - 3:28
  3. "Runnin' Out of Fools" (Kay Rogers, Richard Ahlert) - 4:48
  4. "So Far Away" (Carole King) - 3:58
  5. "I'm Gonna Find Out" (Ralph Harrington) - 3:52
  6. "Save the Children" (Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson, Marvin Gaye) - 4:08
  7. "You Must Believe in Spring" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand) - 4:34
  8. "Wipe Away the Evil" (Horace Silver) - 5:01
  9. "Things Don't Never Go My Way" (Tommy Faile) - 5:55
  • Recorded at A&R Studios in New York City on August 10 (tracks 1, 2, 7 & 8) and August 11 (tracks 3-6 & 9) with overdubbed strings recorded on August 16, 1972.

    • Personnel

  • Marlena Shaw - vocals
  • Phil Bodner - flute, oboe, english horn
  • Derek Smith - piano, electric piano
  • Paul Griffin - electronic organ, electric piano
  • Vincent Bell, Jay Berliner, Cornell Dupree - guitar
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Gordon Edwards - electric bass
  • Jimmy Johnson - drums
  • Raymond Orchart - conga
  • Johnny Pacheco - conga, bongos
  • Omar Clay - percussion
  • Wade Marcus - arranger, conductor
  • Paul Gershman, Louis Haber, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Louis Stone, Paul Winter - violin
  • Julian Barber, Seymour Berman - viola
  • Seymour Barab, Charles McCraken - cello
  • Eugene Bianco - harp

    • References

    Marlena (Marlena Shaw album) Wikipedia
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