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Mood to Be Wooed

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Released
  
1958

Length
  
44:17

Release date
  
1958

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
1958

Artist
  
Sammy Davis Jr.

Label
  
Decca Records

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Mood to Be Wooed (1958)
  
All the Way... and Then Some! (1958)

Similar
  
Sammy Davis Jr albums, Vocal jazz albums

Mood to Be Wooed is a 1958 studio album by Sammy Davis, Jr. and featuring Mundell Lowe on electric guitar.

Contents

Reception

Bruce Eder on Allmusic.com gave this album three and a half stars out of five. He was critical of Davis' low-key performance but stated, "the singing in a reflective, almost introspective manner is good enough to carry the entertainment load."

Track listing

  1. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 3:41
  2. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Moss Hart, Cole Porter) - 4:01
  3. "Love Me" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 3:18
  4. "Bewitched" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:27
  5. "I Could Have Told You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Carl Sigman) - 3:55
  6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 3:53
  7. "Deep in a Dream" (Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) - 4:05
  8. "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) - 3:28
  9. "Mam'selle" (Edmund Goulding, Mack Gordon) - 2:46
  10. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry M. Woods) - 4:11
  11. "This Love of Mine" (Frank Sinatra, Henry Sanicola, Sol Parker) - 3:31
  12. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:01

Personnel

  • Sammy Davis, Jr. – vocals
  • Mundell Lowe - electric guitar
  • References

    Mood to Be Wooed Wikipedia