Droppin' Things

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Droppin' Things
Live album by Betty Carter
Released 1990
Recorded May 25-26 1990
Genre Jazz
Length 61:34
Label Verve Records
Producer Betty Carter
Professional reviews
Betty Carter chronology
Look What I Got!
(1988)		 Droppin Things'
(1990)		 It's Not About The Melody
(1992)

Droppin' Things is a 1990 (see 1990 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter.

Carter's performance on this album was nominated for the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.

[edit] Track listing

For the 1990 Verve CD Issue, 843991-2.

  1. "30 Years" (Betty Carter) – 3:58
  2. "Stardust"/"Memories of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)/(Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 12:37
  3. "What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:22
  4. "Open the Door '90" (Carter) – 5:20
  5. "Droppin' Things" (Carter) – 6:34
  6. "I Love Music" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 7:40
  7. "Why Him?" (Lane, Lerner) – 7:50
  8. "Dull Day (In Chicago)" (Carter) – 12:13

[edit] Personnel

Recorded May 25 - 26, 1990, at the The Bottom Line, New York City: