Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker Sings
Studio album by Chet Baker
Released 1956
Recorded February 15, 1954-July 30, 1956
Genre West Coast jazz, cool jazz, vocal jazz
Length 43:55
Label Pacific Jazz
Producer Richard Bock
Chet Baker chronology

Chet Baker in Europe
(1956)
Chet Baker
(1956)
Live in Europe 1956
(1956)
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Chet Baker Sings is the debut vocal album by jazz musician Chet Baker, released in 1956 by Pacific Jazz Records. In 2001, the album received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.[2]

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "That Old Feeling"  George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 3:03
2. "It's Always You"  Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke 3:35
3. "Like Someone in Love"  Van Heusen, Burke 2:26
4. "My Ideal"  Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting 4:22
5. "I've Never Been In Love Before"  Frank Loesser 4:29
6. "My Buddy"  Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn 3:19
Side two
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
7. "But Not For Me"  Gershwin, Gershwin 3:04
8. "Time After Time"  Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:46
9. "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)"  Hoagy Carmichael 2:59
10. "My Funny Valentine"  Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers 2:21
11. "There Will Never Be Another You"  Mack Gordon, Harry Warren 3:00
12. "The Thrill Is Gone"  Lew Brown, Ray Henderson 2:51
13. "I Fall In Love Too Easily"  Cahn, Styne 3:21
14. "Look for the Silver Lining"  Buddy DeSylva, Jerome Kern 2:39

Personnel

1998 reissue

Production

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