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Our Shining Hour

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Released
  
1965

Producer
  
Jim Davis

Release date
  
1965

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
35:49

Artist
  
Sammy Davis Jr.

Label
  
Sammel-Lab

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Recorded
  
September 2–5, 1964, New York City

Our Shining Hour (1965)
  
Sammy's Back on Broadway (1965)

Our Shining Hour (1964)
  
Pop Goes the Basie (1965)

Similar
  
Sammy Davis Jr albums, Jazz albums

Our Shining Hour is a 1965 studio album by Sammy Davis, Jr., accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, arranged by Quincy Jones.

Contents

In 1973, MGM Records released Sammy Davis Jr. and Count Basie with an identical track listing created using alternate takes from the Our Shining Hour recording sessions in 1964 with newly recorded vocals.

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Track listing

  1. "My Shining Hour" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:10
  2. "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul) – 3:05
  3. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 2:12
  4. "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph Allan McCarthy) – 3:24
  5. "Blues for Mr. Charlie" (Bobby Sharp) – 3:43
  6. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 2:45
  7. "New York City Blues" (Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee) – 2:51
  8. "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" (James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan, Larry Stock) – 2:58
  9. "She's a Woman (W-O-M-A-N)" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) – 2:21
  10. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Vinícius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 4:07
  11. "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 2:51
  12. "Bill Basie Won't You Please Come Home" (Count Basie, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jones) – 2:38

Personnel

  • Sammy Davis, Jr. - vocals, tap
  • The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Count Basie - piano, bandleader
  • Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor
  • George Rhodes - arranger
  • Al Aarons - trumpet
  • Sonny Cohn
  • Wallace Davenport
  • Joe Newman
  • Snooky Young
  • Henderson Chambers - trombone
  • Henry Coker
  • Bill Hughes
  • Grover Mitchell
  • Marshal Royal - clarinet, alto saxophone
  • Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
  • Sal Nistico
  • Charles Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Frank Wess - saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Ray Brown - double bass
  • Sonny Payne - drums
  • Emil Richards - percussion
  • Songs

    1My Shining HourCount Basie2:12
    2Teach Me TonightCount Basie3:07
    3Work SongCount Basie2:14

    References

    Our Shining Hour Wikipedia