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Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues

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Released
  
1964

Artist
  
Jimmy Witherspoon

Producer
  
Lew Futterman

Genre
  
Blues

Length
  
33:33

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Recorded
  
July 15-20, 1964 Stockholm, Sweden

Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues (1964)
  
Blues for Easy Livers (1965)

Blues albums
  
Blues Around the Clock, Blues for Easy Livers, Blue Spoon, Evenin' Blues, Big Blues

Some of my best friends are the blues


Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues is an album by blues vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon which was recorded in Sweden in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "Nothing all that memorable occurs, but the singer is in strong voice, and his fans will want to pick up this".

Track listing

  1. "Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues" (Al Byron, Woody Harris) - 2:55
  2. "Everytime I Think About You" (Claude Demetrius) - 2:39
  3. "I Never Will Marry" (Traditional) - 2:48
  4. "I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt) - 3:27
  5. "Teardrops from My Eyes" (Rudy Toombs) - 2:59
  6. "And the Angels Sing" (Ziggy Elman, Johnny Mercer) - 2:55
  7. "Who's Sorry Now?" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder) - 3:37
  8. "I'm Comin Down With the Blues" (Don Covay) - 2:23
  9. "You're Next" (Sid Tepper) - 2:16
  10. "Happy Blues" (Tony Bruno) - 2:14
  11. "That's Why I'm Leaving" (Lockie Edwards, Jr.) - 2:32
  12. "One Last Chance" (Jimmy Witherspoon) - 3:12

Personnel

  • Jimmy Witherspoon - vocals
  • Benny Bailey, Bertil Lövgren, Bengt-Arne Wallin - trumpet
  • Åke Persson, Eje Thelin - trombone
  • Karl Nystrom, Bengt Olesson - French horn
  • Runo Erickson - euphonium
  • Lars Sloglund - oboe, English horn
  • Arne Domnerus - alto saxophone, clarinet
  • Bjarne Nerem - tenor saxophone
  • Rune Falk - baritone saxophone, clarinet
  • Tosten Wennberg - saxophones, clarinet
  • Roman Dylag - bass
  • Egil Johansen - drums
  • Benny Golson - arranger

    • Songs

    1Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues2:57
    2Everytime I Think About You2:42
    3I Never Will Marry2:50

    References

    Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues Wikipedia
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