About the Blues

Studio album by Julie London

Released

1957

Genre

Traditional pop, jazz

Length

45:12

Julie London chronology

Calendar Girl
(1956)

About the Blues
(1957)

Make Love to Me
(1957)

About the Blues is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3043 (monaural) in 1957 and LST-7012 (stereophonic) in 1958. All of the songs in the album have "blues" in their titles.

The album was reissued, combined with London's 1958 album London by Night, on compact disc in 2001 by EMI. It was reissued in 2002 as a CD in its own right, with four extra tracks.

Track listing

Track number	Title	Songwriter(s)	Time
1	"Basin Street Blues"	Spencer Williams	3:03
2	"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues"	Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler	2:56
3	"A Nightingale Can Sing the Blues"	Larry Marks, Dick Charles	3:08
4	"Get Set for the Blues"	Joe Karnes	2:42
5	"Invitation to the Blues"	Doris Fisher, Arthur Gershwin, Allan Roberts	2:48
6	"Bye Bye Blues"	Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray	1:38
7	"Meaning of the Blues"	Bobby Troup, Leah Worth	2:56
8	"About the Blues"	Arthur Hamilton	3:05
9	"Sunday Blues"	Leonard Adelson, Jeff Clarkson	2:53
10	"The Blues Is All I Ever Had"	Bobby Troup	2:49
11	"Blues in the Night"	Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer	3:39
12	"Bouquet of Blues"	Arthur Hamilton	2:55
13*	"Baby, Baby All the Time"	Bobby Troup	2:25
14*	"Shadow Woman"	Arthur Hamilton	2:39
15*	"Meaning of the Blues"	Bobby Troup, Leah Worth	2:58
16*	"Dark"	Edwin Greines	2:38

Tracks 13–16 are CD bonus tracks, not on the original LP.

Tracks 1–15* – Arranged and conducted by Russ Garcia; Track 16* – with the Spencer-Hagan Orchestra
Track 15* appears to be a Remastered version of Track 7.

References

External links

About the Blues at AllMusic

About the Blues on Rate Your Music site

Julie London

Discography

Julie Is Her Name (1955)
Lonely Girl (1956)
Calendar Girl (1956)
About the Blues (1957)
Make Love to Me (1957)
Julie (1957)
Julie Is Her Name, Volume II (1958)
London by Night (1958)
Swing Me an Old Song (1959)
Your Number Please (1959)
Julie...At Home (1960)
Around Midnight (1960)
Send for Me (1961)
Whatever Julie Wants (1961)
The Best of Julie (1962)
Sophisticated Lady (1962)
Love Letters (1962)
Love on the Rocks (1963)
Latin in a Satin Mood (1963)
The End of the World (1963)
The Wonderful World of Julie London (1963)
Julie London (1964)
In Person at the Americana (1964)
Our Fair Lady (1965)
Feeling Good (1965)
By Myself (1965)
All Through the Night: Julie London Sings the Choicest of Cole Porter (1965)
For the Night People (1966)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (1967)
With Body & Soul (1967)
Easy Does It (1968)
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (1969)

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