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Singin' and Swingin' (Betty Roché album)

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Released
  
1960

Artist
  
Betty Roché

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Prestige PRLP 7187

Release date
  
1960

Recorded
  
June 3, 1960 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Singin' & Swingin' (1961)
  
Lightly and Politely (1961)

Jazz albums
  
Ellington Uptown, The Golden Age of Ap, Loved Ones, Ballads by Cobb, Bahamut

Singin' & Swingin' is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Betty Roché.

Contents

Reception

Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that Roché "should have been much more famous" and that the album was "Recommended, as are all of the other recordings in her slim discography".

Track listing

  1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:48
  2. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:37
  3. "Day by Day" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:55
  4. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 3:18
  5. "Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:01
  6. "Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:56
  7. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 2:08
  8. "(It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols) – 4:10
  9. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) – 3:12

Personnel

  • Betty Roché – vocals
  • Jimmy Forrest – tenor saxophone
  • Jack McDuff – electric organ
  • Bill Jennings – guitar
  • Wendell Marshall – double bass
  • Roy Haynes – drums
  • Dale Wright – liner notes
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Esmond Edwards – cover art, supervisor
  • Phil DeLancie – digital remastering

    • References

    Singin' & Swingin' (Betty Roché album) Wikipedia
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