'Round Midnight (1963 Betty Carter album)


'Round Midnight
Studio album by Betty Carter
Released 1963
Recorded August 10, 1962, December 6, 1962, January 15, 1963
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 31:11
Label Atco
Producer Nesuhi Ertegün
Betty Carter chronology

Ray Charles and Betty Carter
(1961)		 ‍ '​Round Midnight
(1963)		 Inside Betty Carter
(1964)

‍ '​Round Midnight is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter, arranged by Claus Ogerman and Oliver Nelson.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Scott Yanow, writing on Allmusic.com gave ‍ '​Round Midnight two and a half stars out of five. Yanow commented of Carter in this period that "...Her chance-taking style and unusual voice were mostly ignored and it would not be until the late '70s that she was finally "discovered."...Her style was a lot freer than it had been in her earlier records but was still more accessible than it would be. Her repertoire...was already becoming eclectic."[1]

Billboard magazine gave ‍ '​Round Midnight its "4-star rating" in March 1963. The rating was given for "new albums with sufficient commercial potential."[2]

Track listings

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Nothing More to Look Forward To"  Richard Adler 2:31
2. "Who What Why Where When"  Betty Carter 3:05
3. "Heart and Soul"  Frank Loesser, Hoagy Carmichael 3:14
4. "Call Me Darling"  Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld 3:48
5. "When I Fall in Love"  Edward Heyman, Victor Young 2:56
6. "'Round Midnight"  Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk 3:14
7. "I Wonder"  Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen 2:29
8. "Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)"  Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, Hal Winn 2:40
9. "The Good Life"  Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon 2:30
10. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"  Ace Adams, Regina Adams, Lionel Hampton 2:40
11. "Two Cigarettes in the Dark"  Lew Pollack, Paul Francis Webster 2:04
12. "Shine On Harvest Moon"  Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth 2:06
13. "One Note Samba"  Jon Hendricks, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça 2:21

Personnel

Recorded August 10, 1962 (tracks 1, 5, 9, 12, 13); December 6, 1962 (tracks 3, 4, 6, 10); and January 15, 1963 (tracks 2, 7, 8, 11).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'Round Midnight at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (16 March 1963). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 34–. ISSN 0006-2510.