Released 1968 Release date 1968 Label MCA Records | Recorded November 1967 Producer Teddy Reig Genres Big band, Swing music | |
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Artists Count Basie, The Mills Brothers Similar The Board of Directors Annual R, Half a Sixpence, Standing Ovation, Broadway Basie'sWay, HollywoodBasie's Way | ||
The Board of Directors is a LP album recorded at the A & R Recording Studios in New York City on November 20–21, 1967 and released in 1968, featuring the Mills Brothers with Count Basie and orchestra. The arrangements and conducting were by Dick Hyman, and the sound engineer was Phil Ramone.
Contents
The theme of the title was taken from the Basie band album recorded in April 1958, Chairman of the Board (reissued 1970 by Roulette Records). It was resumed in 1968 in the follow-up album The Board of Directors Annual Report, also with the Mills Brothers (Dot Records).
Track listing
- Up A Lazy River
- I May be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful (Frank Foster solo)
- Release Me
- I Want To Be Happy (Eric Dixon flute solo)
- Down-Down-Down
- The Whiffenpoof Song
- I Dig Rock And Roll Music
- Tiny Bubbles
- December
- Let Me Dream
- April in Paris
Personnel
The Mills Brothers
Orchestra:
Songs
1Up a Lazy River3:33
2I May Be Wrong but I Think You're Wonderful3:11
3Release Me2:44
References
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