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Released
  
May 1960

Release date
  
May 1960

Label
  
Verve Records

Artist
  
Oscar Peterson

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
July 14-August 9, 1959 at Universal Recorders, Chicago, IL

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Similar
  
Oscar Peterson albums, Jazz albums

Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music). It was reissued in 2001 in combination with the 1954 recording Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen.

Contents

Track listing

Original 1959 track listing.

  1. "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  3. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
  4. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
  5. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
  6. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)
  7. "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
  8. "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
  9. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, E. Y. Harburg)
  10. "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Harburg)
  11. "The Man that Got Away" (Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
  12. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler)

2001 Reissue track listing:

  1. "As Long as I Live" (Arlen, Koehler)
  2. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler)
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer)
  4. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
  6. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
  7. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Billy Rose)
  8. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)
  9. "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
  10. "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
  11. "Blues in the Night" (Arlen, Mercer)
  12. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg)
  13. "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Harburg)
  14. "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
  15. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg)
  16. "The Man that Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin)
  17. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler)
  18. "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
  19. "As Long as I Live" (Arlen, Koehler)
  20. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer)
  21. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
  22. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
  23. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
  24. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)

Personnel

  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Ed Thigpen – drums
  • Herb Ellis – guitar (on titles taken from Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen)
  • Songs

    1As Long as I Live2:26
    2Come Rain or Come Shine2:37
    3Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive2:01

    References

    Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook Wikipedia