Carmen McRae: Finest Hour

Carmen McRae, Ernie Wilkins (participant), Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Pleis (director), Wendell Marshall (drums), Billy Strayhorn (piano)

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Release date: 22nd Sep 2000
Label: Verve
Catalogue number: 5437602
Length: 63 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Gershwin: I Was Doing All Right

Work length2:50

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1956-04

Gershwin: How Long Has This Been Going On

Work length4:06

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1959

Gene DePaul, Johnny Mercer, Jim Mercer: Namely You

Work length2:46

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1956-10

Carmen McRae, Luther Henderson Jr.: Dream Of Life

Work length4:02

Carmen McRae (vocalist)
Recorded: 1957-03-06

Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen: The Eagle And Me

Work length2:48

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1958-09

Heusen: Do You Know Why?

Work length2:53

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1958

Robert Adler, Jerry Ross: Whatever Lola Wants

Work length3:00

Carmen McRae (vocalist)
Recorded: 1955-02-21

Einar Aaron Swan: When Your Lover Has Gone

Work length3:35

Carmen McRae (vocalist)
Recorded: 1959

Jeanne Burns: Weak For The Man

Work length4:08

Carmen McRae (vocalist), Fred Katz (recordingarranger)
Fred Katz
Recorded: 1958-12-06

Coward, N: Mad about the boy

Work length4:14

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1957-06-19

Arthur Spiegel, June Carroll: Love Is A Simple Thing

Work length2:05

Carmen McRae (vocalist), Ernie Wilkins (recordingarranger), Phil Woods (altosaxophone), Dick Katz (piano), Zoot Sims (tenorsaxophone), Richard Williams (trumpet), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone)
Recorded: 1960-12-03

Gershwin: I loves you Porgy (from Porgy and Bess)

Work length3:50

Sammy Davis Jr., Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1959-12-09

Carmichael, H: Baltimore Oriole

Work length3:54

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1958-09

Kaper: Invitation

Work length2:55

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1958-03-06

Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington: Something To Live For

Work length3:14

Carmen McRae, Billy Strayhorn (piano), Wendell Marshall (drumkit)
Recorded: 1955-06-14

Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke: Midnight Sun

Work length3:48

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1956

Jimmy Fylnn, Harry Rosenthal, Alexander Sullivan: Georgia Rose

Work length3:22

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1958-09

Gershwin: Love Is Here to Stay

Work length3:04

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1957
Recording Venue: Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI

Juan Tizol: Perdido

Work length2:51

Carmen McRae
Recorded: 1957
Recording Venue: Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI

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