That Bad Eartha

That Bad Eartha
Studio album by Eartha Kitt
Released	December 1953 (see release history)
Recorded	March 1953 at The Manhattan Center, New York and October 1953 at RCA Victor Studio No. 2
Genre	Vocal jazz Pop
Length	37:01
Label	RCA Victor His Master's Voice
Producer	Hugo Winterhalter Joe Carlton
Eartha Kitt chronology
That Bad Eartha (1953) Down to Eartha (1955)

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That Bad Eartha is a 1954 studio album by Eartha Kitt, her debut 12" vinyl album issued on the RCA Victor label. The album was recorded in four sessions between March and October 1953 with Henri Rene and His Orchestra. Long-playing records were newly introduced in the mid-1950s and the 10" album was briefly introduced as an album format. Within a few years the 12" album was the format offered to the record buying public, remaining so until the late-1980s when the Compact Disc became the favoured format. In May 1953 RCA had released a 10" vinyl album RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt which reached No. 2 on the pop albums chart and featured 8 songs issued on this album. With the successful introduction of the 12" LP in the early 1950s RCA Victor expanded and re-issued the album with 12 tracks. That Bad Eartha spent 12 weeks on the pop albums chart, peaking at No. 5.^[2]

Several singles were issued from this album, "Under the Bridges of Paris" charted in the UK singles chart in 1955 at #7.^[3]

Many of the songs recorded for this album, such as "C'est si bon", "Uska Dara" and "I Want to Be Evil" became closely associated with Eartha Kitt and were performed live by her until one of her last concerts at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, shortly before her death in December 2008. The complete album was re-issued on CD in 1994 as part of the Bear Family Records five-CD boxset Eartha – Quake; this included "Santa Baby" and several other tracks from the same recording session not included in this album.^[4]

Track listings

RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt (1953)

This was the first incarnation of the album, originally released to 10" in late-1953. It was released a few months later in early 1954 as a 7" double extended play. In 2010 it was issued as a digital download in select European countries under public domain with alternate artwork by Smith & Co.^[5]

10" Long Play

Track list and notes adapted from liner notes of original release.^[6]Track lengths adapted from digital release.^[7]

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Want To Be Evil"	3:30
2.	"C'est si bon (It's So Good)" (Sung in French)	2:59
3.	"Angelitos Negros" (Sung in Spanish)	3:27
4.	"Avril au Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)" (Sung in French)	2:52
Total length:		12:48

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Uska Dara-A Turkish Tale" (Sung in Turkish)	3:07
2.	"African Lullaby" (Sung in English and Swahili)	2:52
3.	"Mountain High, Valley Low"	2:36
4.	"Lilac Wine (Dance Me A Song)"	3:45
Total length:		12:20

7" Double Extended Play

Track list and notes adapted from liner notes of original release.^[8]Track lengths adapted from digital release.^[7]

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Want To Be Evil"	3:30
2.	"C'est si bon (It's So Good)" (Sung in French)	2:59
Total length:		6:29

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Angelitos Negros" (Sung in Spanish)	3:27
2.	"Avril au Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)" (Sung in French)	2:52
Total length:		6:19

Side C
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Uska Dara-A Turkish Tale" (Sung in Turkish)	3:07
2.	"African Lullaby" (Sung in English and Swahili)	2:52
Total length:		5:59

Side D
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mountain High, Valley Low"	2:36
2.	"Lilac Wine (Dance Me A Song)"	3:45
Total length:		6:21

That Bad Eartha (EP) (1954)

Meant to be a follow up to Kitt's first album RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt, That Bad Eartha (EP) was released in 1954, consisting entirely of previously unreleased music. It wasn't until the following year that a long play version of the record would be made available. The catalog number for the release was EPB3187.^[9]

10" Extended Play

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Under the Bridges of Paris"	Cochran Scotto Rodor	2:41
2.	"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"	Porter	3:04
3.	"The Blues"	Ellington	3:34
4.	"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"	Porter	3:01
Total length:			12:20

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sandy's Tune"	Kennedy Simon	2:34
2.	"Señor"	Adamson Teixeira	2:58
3.	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	Harbach Kern	3:05
4.	"Salanga Dou"	Scott	2:26
Total length:			11:03

10" Long Play (United Kingdom Version)

Released in 1955 around the same time as That Bad Eartha (LP) in the rest of the world, it wasn't until 1958 that the, now standard, 12" long play version of the album was released in the United Kingdom.^[10] As a result this version, released by His Master's Voice, is still considered to be the standard track listing for the album in the UK; the 12" version being commonly referred to as the "American Version" within the country.^[11] The UK version of the album was released with alternative cover artwork,^[12] and was later released to a compact disk compilation.^[13]

Credits adapted from liner notes of original release.^[12]

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Under the Bridges of Paris"	Cochran Scotto Rodor	2:41
2.	"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (from the musical production In Paris)	Cole Porter	3:04
3.	"The Blues"	Duke Ellington	3:34
4.	"C'est Si Bon"	Hornez Betti	2:58
5.	"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"	Cole Porter	3:01
Total length:			15:18

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Monotonous" (from New Faces)	Siegel Carroll	3:47
2.	"Sandy's Tune"	Jimmy Kennedy Nat Simon	2:34
3.	"Señor"	Harold Adamson Humberto Teixeir	2:58
4.	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (from Roberta)	Otto Harbach Jerome Kern	3:05
5.	"Salanga Dou"	Tom Scott	2:26
Total length:			14:50

7" Double Extended Play

Credits adapted from label notes of original release.^[14]

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Under the Bridges of Paris"	Cochran Rodor Scotto	2:41
2.	"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (from the musical prod. In Paris)	Cole Porter	3:04
Total length:			5:45

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Blues"	Duke Ellington	3:34
2.	"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"	Cole Porter	3:01
Total length:			6:35

Side C
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
2.	"Sandy's Tune"	Jimmy Kennedy Nat Simon	2:34
3.	"Señor"	Harold Adamson Humberto Teixeira	2:58
Total length:			5:32

Side D
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (from the musical prod. Roberta)	Otto Harbach Jerome Kern	3:05
2.	"Salanga Dou"	Tom Scott	2:26
Total length:			5:31

That Bad Eartha (LP) (1956)

As 12" records became more popular, RCA re-issued RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt as a 12" record with four new songs from That Bad Eartha (EP), releasing it synonymously a year after the extend play's release. This is now considered to be the standard track listing of That Bad Eartha in all countries except the United Kingdom, where this version was not officially released until 1958,^[10] three years after a ten-track, long play version of That Bad Eartha (EP) was released in the country as a stand alone album.^[12] During the early 1980s this version of the album was re-issued by RCA on 12" in the Netherlands entitled "The Classics" That Bad Eartha.^[15] In 1984, following her international commercial success with "Where Is My Man", RCA re-issued this version of the album once again on 12",^[16] this time also issuing the first cassette and compact disk versions of the album in Germany, Europe, and the UK.^[17] Over the course of the next two decades, RCA would release at least four re-issues of the same compact disk version throughout Europe.^{[18][19][20][21]} By 1994 songs from the album began becoming available in CD compilations in America by numerous record companies.^[4][22] However, it wasn't until 2002 that a CD featuring the full album would become available in the country, released as a two-for-one with Down To Eartha in conjuncture with BMG, as with previous official releases of the album.^[23] In 2006 a version of the album featuring 12 bonus tracks would be released in Italy displaying a new cover designed from an alternate shot of Kitt from the same photo shoot that garnered her original album covers for Down to Eartha and Thursday's Child, two months later it was briefly released in the US.^[24][25] The album has since been issued in its entirety on compact disk by numerous record labels,^[26] often in multi-album compilations, throughout the world,^[11] and inevitably as a digital download.^[27][28][29] As of 2007 this album falls into public domain in Europe and is issued freely, without consent from RCA or its parent company Sony Music Entertainment.^[11][30]

12" Long Play

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Want to Be Evil"	Lester Judson Raymond Taylor	3:31
2.	"C'est si bon"	Henri Betti André Hornez Jerry Seelen	2:58
3.	"Angelitos Negros"	Andrés Eloy Blanco Manuel Alvarez Maciste	3:27
4.	"Avril au Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)"	Raul Ferrão Jimmy Kennedy	2:53
5.	"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"	Cole Porter	3:04
6.	"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"	Cole Porter	3:01
Total length:			18:54

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Uska Dara" (A Turkish Tale)	Traditional	3:08
2.	"African Lullaby"	William Greaves	2:52
3.	"Mountain High, Valley Low"	Bernie Hanighen Raymond Scott	2:36
4.	"Lilac Wine"	James Shelton	3:45
5.	"Under the Bridges of Paris"	Vincent Scotto Jean Rodor Dorcas Cochran	2:41
6.	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	Jerome Kern Otto Harbach	3:05
Total length:			18:07

CD (1984)

Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Want to Be Evil"	Lester Judson Raymond Taylor	3:31
2.	"C'est si bon"	Henri Betti André Hornez Jerry Seelen	2:58
3.	"Angelitos Negros"	Andrés Eloy Blanco Manuel Alvarez Maciste	3:27
4.	"Avril au Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)"	Raul Ferrão Jimmy Kennedy	2:53
5.	"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"	Cole Porter	3:04
6.	"My Heart Belongs to Daddy"	Cole Porter	3:01
7.	"Uska Dara" (A Turkish Tale)	Traditional	3:08
8.	"African Lullaby"	William Greaves	2:52
9.	"Mountain High, Valley Low"	Bernie Hanighen Raymond Scott	2:36
10.	"Lilac Wine"	James Shelton	3:45
11.	"Under the Bridges of Paris"	Vincent Scotto Jean Rodor Dorcas Cochran	2:41
12.	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"	Jerome Kern Otto Harbach	3:05
Total length:			37:01

Bonus tracks (2006)[24]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (B-side of "I Want To Be Evil")	Harold Spina Joe Young	2:54
14.	"Two Lovers" (B-side of "Uska Dara")	John Rox	2:46
15.	"Señor"	Harold Adamson Humberto Teixeira	2:58
16.	"Santa Baby" (Non-album single)	Joan Javits Tony Springer	3:26
17.	"Oh John! (Please Don't Kiss Me)" (from Down To Eartha)	Fred Ebb Philip Springer	2:48
18.	"Salangadou"	Tom Scott	2:26
19.	"Sandy's Tune"	Harold Adamson Humberto Teixeira	2:34
20.	"The Blues"	Duke Ellington	3:34
21.	"Lovin' Spree" (Non-album single)	Joan Javits Philip Springer	2:58
22.	"Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell" (B-side of "Lovin' Spree")	David Mann	2:50
23.	"Looking for a Boy" (from Down To Eartha)	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	3:03
24.	"Lonely Girl" (unreleased)	Bobby Troup	3:04
Total length:			72:02

That Bad Eartha (Japanese version)

7" Extended Play

This was a seven inch extended play released in Japan of the same name consisting of three songs from different versions of the album and "Santa Baby". It was released with the same cover artwork as Down To Eartha, only changing the letters to "That Bad Eartha", with the same placement and font as the album. Released by "Victor", catalogue number EP-1118.^[31]

Track list adapted from label notes of original release.^[31]

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Uska Dara-A Turkish Tale"	3:08
2.	"Santa Baby"	3:26
Total length:		6:34

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"C'est Si Bon"	2:58
2.	"Monotonous"	3:47
Total length:		6:45

Personnel

Personnel adapted from Allmusic.^[32] Orchestra and chorus members members adapted from the liner notes of the 2006 Universe Italy CD release.^[33]

Performance Anton Coppola – Orchestra conductor (for "Monotonous") Eartha Kitt – vocalist Henri René – Orchestra conductor, (producer) Henri René & His Orchestra - performer Hugo Winterhalter - conductor, (producer) Chorus members Betty Allen - choir, chorus Howard Hudson - choir, chorus Ada Beth Lee - choir, chorus Betty Noyes - choir, chorus Orchestra members Russell Banzer - bassoon Milt Bernhart - trombone Noel Boggs - guitar Julius Brand - violin Sidney Brecher - viola Frederick Buldrini - violin Robert Byrne - trombone Warren Covington - trombone John d'Agostino - trombone Roland Dupont - trombone Harold Feldman - oboe Arnold Fishkind - bass Calman Fleisig - viola Harold Furmansky - viola Harry Glickman - violin Bernard Greenhouse - cello Johnny Guarnieri - piano Allen Hanlon - guitar Julius Held - violin Al Hendrickson - guitar Harry Hoffman - violin Raymond Hunoz - drums Harry Katzman - violin Bernard Kaufman - saxophone Albert Klink - clarinet, saxophone Stanley F. Kraft - violin Jack Lesberg - bass Arno Levitch - violin Ivan Lopes - bongos Charles Magnante - accordion James Maxwell - trumpet George Ockner - violin Eugene Orloff - violin Pullman Pederson - trombone Danny Perri - guitar Victor Piemonte - calliope Jack Pleis - piano Edward B. Powell - flute Ralph Ransell - marimbas Tommy Romersa - drums Henry Ross - saxophone Henry Rowland - piano Art Ryerson - guitar Tosha Samaroff - violin Frank Saracco - trombone Jack Saunders - drums Julius Schacter - violin William Schaffer - trombone

Herman Schertzer - clarinet, saxophone Lucien Schmit - cello Sam Shamper - violin Norris "Bunny" Shawker - drums Mock Shopnick - bass Terry Snyder - drums Melvin "Red" Solomon - trumpet Sal Spinelli - violin Phil Stephens - bass Melvin Tax - saxophone Anthony Terran - trumpet Stanley Webb - saxophone Technical Joe Carlton - producer, (composer) Henri René - producer, (Orchestra conductor) Hugo Winterhalter - producer, (conductor) Re-issue Norman Blake - recreation (re-issue) Joe Foster - producer, recreation (Rev-Ola Records re-issue)[30] Nicole Garcia - liner notes (re-issue) Stella Lee - arrangement (re-issue) Duncan MacDougald, Jr. - liner notes (re-issue) Andy Morten - artwork, design (re-issue) Steve Huey - liner notes (Universe Italy re-issue) Composers Harold Adamson - composer Henri Betti - composer Joe Carlton - composer, (producer) Dorcas Cochran - composer Fred Ebb - composer Duke Ellington - composer George Gershwin - composer Ira Gershwin - composer Bernie Hanighen - composer Otto Harbach - composer André Hornez - composer Joan Javits - composer Lester Judson - composer Jimmy Kennedy - composer Jerome Kern - composer Jacques Larue - composer Manuel Alvarez Maciste - composer Dave Mann - composer Cole Porter - composer John Rox - composer Tom Scott - composer Vincent Scotto - composer Jerry Seelen - composer James Alan Shelton - composer Nat Simon - composer Harold Spina - composer Philip Springer - composer Tony Springer - composer Raymond Taylor - composer Humberto Teixeira - composer Bobby Troup - composer Joe Young - composer Traditional - composer

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Edition
United States	May 1953[6]	10" LP	RCA Victor	RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt
	1954[8]	2x7" Double EP
	195?[34]		RCA
France	1954	10" LP[35]	RCA Victor
United States		10" EP, 2x7" Double EP[36]		That Bad Eartha (EP)
United Kingdom	1955[37]	10" LP (UK version)	His Master's Voice	That Bad Eartha (LP)
United States	1956	12" LP (standard version)	RCA Victor[38]
South Africa			RCA, Teal Records[39]
Canada	Unknown[40]		RCA Victor
United Kingdom	1958		RCA[41]
			RCA Victor[42]
Germany			RCA[43]
Europe
Mexico	Unknown[44]		RCA Victor
Japan	Unknown[31]	7" EP (Japanese version)	Victor	That Bad Eartha
Netherlands	1980[15]	12" LP (re-issue)	RCA Victor	"The Originals" That Bad Eartha
Germany	1984	12" LP (re-issue),[45] cassette (standard version), CD (standard version)[17] (re-issued 1988-1989,[18] 1992-1993, 1998,[19] 2003[20][21] all under the original catalog #ND-89439)	RCA	That Bad Eartha (LP)
United Kingdom			RCA, BMG Records (dist)
Europe			RCA, BMG Ariola (dist)
United States	2002[23]	CD (standard version)	BMG Special Products	That Bad Eartha / Down to Eartha
Japan	Unknown[46]	CD (standard version)	RCA Records	That Bad Eartha (LP)
Italy	January 30, 2006	CD (bonus track version)[25][33]	Universe Italy
United States	March 21, 2006		Universe USA
Netherlands (CRREV189)	November 27, 2006 (ret)[47] (imp)[47] (imp)[48] / December 4, 2006 (lis)[26]	CD (standard version) (reconstructed artwork)	Rev-Ola
Australia (CRREV189)			Rev-Ola, Red Eye (dist)[47]
United Kingdom (CRREV189)			Rev-Ola
Germany (189)	Jan 30, 2007[49]	CD (standard version) (reconstructed artwork)	Rev-Ola, Bear Family (dist)[49]
United Kingdom / Ireland (CR 228)	November 20, 2007 (lis)[50] / December 3, 2007 (ret)[50]	CD (standard version) (reconstructed artwork) (UK re-issue / IE first distributed issue), digital download (standard edition) (reconstructed artwork)[51][52]	Rev-Ola, Cherry Red (dist)[53]
Spain (CR 228)	December 3, 2007 (ret)[27]	Digital download (standard version) (reconstructed artwork)	Rev-Ola
Canada (CR 228)	December 11, 2007 (ret)[54]	CD (standard version) (reconstructed artwork) [import]
Austria	2008	CD (UK version)[55]	Vocalation	That Bad Eartha & Down to Eartha
United Kingdom	2009
United Kingdom / Ireland	February 16, 2009 (ret)[29] / February 19, 2009 (lis)[11]	2xCD (standard version),[11] digital download (standard version)[29][56]	Avid Easy	Four Classic Albums (That Bad Eartha / Down to Eartha / Thursday's Child / St. Louis Blues)
Canada	February 16, 2009 (ret)[28]	digital download (standard version)
United States	May 11, 2010 (ret)[57]	2xCD (standard version) [import]
Ireland	2010[5]	digital download	Smith & Co	RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt
Europe / North America (imp)[58]	July 9, 2013[59][60]	4xCD Box Set (standard version) [remastered]	Real Gone Jazz	7 Classic Albums (That Bad Eartha / Down to Eartha / Thursday's Child / St. Louis Blues / The Fabulous Eartha / Bad But Beautiful / The Romantic Eartha)

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