Blossom Dearie (album)

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Blossom Dearie
Studio album by Blossom Dearie
Released	April 1957
Recorded	September 11-12, 1956
Genre	Jazz
Label	Verve Records
Producer(s)	Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
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Blossom Dearie chronology
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Blossom Dearie is a 1957 (see 1957 in music) studio album by Blossom Dearie, it was her first recording for Verve Records.

This is Blossom Dearie's first American solo album. Already famous for the group "Les Blue Stars" of France and their French version of "Lullaby of Birdland", Norman Granz personally invited her to record for Verve Records.

[edit] Track Listings

1. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) 2:11
2. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) 2:45
3. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:27
4. "Comment Allez-Vous" (Grand) 2:10
5. "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Fred Rose, Vincent Youmans) 3:25
6. "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:59
7. "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) 3:09
8. "Tout Doucement" (Clausier, Mercadier) 2:21
9. "You For Me" (Bob Haymes) 2:13
10. "Now at last" (Bob Haymes) 3:20
11. "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) 2:05
12. "Wait Till You See Her" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 3:19
13. "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) 2:44
14. "A Fine Spring Morning" (Bob Haymes) 3:04
15. "They Say It's Spring" (Clark, Bob Haymes) 3:22
16. "Johnny One Note" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:10
17. "Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) 3:09

[edit] Personnel

• Blossom Dearie - piano, vocals
• Jo Jones- drums
• Ray Brown- double bass
• Herb Ellis- guitar