Once Upon a Summertime

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Once Upon A Summertime
Studio album by Blossom Dearie
Released	1959
Recorded	September 12-13, 1958
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:39
Label	Verve Records
Producer(s)	Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Blossom Dearie chronology
Give Him The Ooh-La-La (1958)	Once Upon A Summertime (1959)	Sings Comden and Green (1960)

Once Upon A Summertime is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) album recorded by Blossom Dearie.

This is the third in a series of six albums recorded by Blossom Dearie for the Verve label. The liner notes quote Dearie as saying "Norman Granz called and asked me to make another album with Tom Nola. He had Ray Brown playing bass, Mundell Lowe playing guitar, and Ed Thigpen playing drums. I could pick the songs and write the arrangements. How could a girl go wrong? So, by twisting my arm a few times he seemed to persuade me to go ahead with it. . . even though I resisited stubbornly." ^[1]

[edit] Track Listing

1. "Tea For Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) 3:20
2. "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) 4:16
3. "Moonlight Saving Time" (Irving Kahal, Richman) 1:59
4. "It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) 4:16
5. "If I Were A Bell" (Frank Loesser) 3:05
6. "We're Together" (Allen, Elliott) 2:02
7. "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene DePaul) 2:38
8. "Once Upon A Summertime" (Barclay, Legrand, Marnay, Mercer) 2:43
9. "Down With Love" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 1:39
10. "Manhattan" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 4:16
11. "Doop-Doo-De-Doop (A Doodlin' Song)" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) 2:15
12. "Our Love Is Here To Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 3:10

[edit] Personel

• Blossom Dearie - vocals, piano
• Ray Brown - double bass
• Mundell Lowe - guitar
• Ed Thigpen - drums