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Billy Eckstine - Greatest Hits FLAC album


Performer: Billy Eckstine
Genre: Jazz / Pop
Title: Greatest Hits
Country: UK
Style: Vocal, Easy Listening
Label: MGM Records
Catalog Number: 2353 071
FLAC version ZIP size: 2451 mb
MP3 version ZIP size: 2222 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1725 mb
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 630

Tracklist

1Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
Featuring [With] – Woody Herman OrchestraWritten-By – Brown, Henderson
2St. Louis Blues Parts 1 & 2
Featuring [With] – Metronome All StarsWritten-By – Handy
3Here Comes The Blues
Featuring [With] – Woody Herman OrchestraWritten-By – Raye, DePaul
4No One But You
Featuring [With] – Lou Bring And His OrchestraWritten-By – Lawrence, Brodsky
5Taking A Chance On Love
Featuring [With] – George Shearing QuintetWritten-By – Letauch, Fetter, Duke
6Tenderly
Featuring [With] – Bobby Tucker GroupWritten-By – Lawrence, Gross
7Laura
Featuring [With] – Bobby Tucker GroupWritten-By – David Raksin, Mercer
8Love Me Or Leave Me
Featuring – The Pied PipersFeaturing [With] – Lou Bring And His OrchestraWritten-By – Kahn, Donaldson
9Everything I Have Is Yours
Featuring [With] – Sonny Burke OrchestraWritten-By – Lane, Adamson
10I Left My Hat In Haiti
Featuring [With] – Woody Herman OrchestraWritten-By – Lerner, Lane
11As Long As I Live
Featuring [With] – Woody Herman OrchestraWritten-By – Arlen, Koehler
12You're Driving Me Crazy
Featuring [With] – George Shearing QuintetWritten-By – Donaldson
13How High The Moon (Parts 1 & 2)
Featuring [With] – Metronome All StarsWritten-By – Lewis, Hamilton
14I Apologise
Featuring [With] – Pete Rugolo OrchestraWritten-By – Goodhart, Hoffman, Nelson

Versions

CategoryArtistTitle (Format)LabelCategoryCountryYear
SPELP 64Billy Eckstine Greatest Hits ‎(LP, Comp)PolydorSPELP 64UKUnknown
SPEMC 64Billy Eckstine Greatest Hits ‎(Cass, Album, Comp)PolydorSPEMC 64UKUnknown

Credits

  • Alto SaxophoneWilbur Schwartz (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Herman (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • Arranged ByPete Rugolo Orchestra (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • Baritone SaxophoneChuck Gentry (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • BassAl McKibbon (tracks: A7, B4), Eddie Safranski (tracks: A3, B2), Joe Mondragon (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • BongosIvan Lopez (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • ClarinetJohn Laporta (tracks: A3, B2), Herman (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • Compiled ByJohn Snell
  • DrumsDenzil Best (tracks: A7, B4), Louis Bellson (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Max Roach (tracks: A3, B2)
  • French HornJohn Graas (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • GuitarAl Hendrickson (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Billy Bauer (tracks: A3, B2), Dick Evans (tracks: A7, B4)
  • PianoShearing (tracks: A7, B4), Hal Schaefer (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Terry Wilson (tracks: A3, B2)
  • Tenor SaxophoneBabe Russin (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Jimmy Giuffre (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Lester Young (tracks: A3, B2), Ted Nash (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Warne Marsh (tracks: A3, B2)
  • TromboneDick Kenney (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Harry Betts (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Kai Winding (tracks: A3, B2), Si Zenter (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • TrumpetBuddy Childers (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Conrad Gozzo (tracks: A4), Pete Candoli (tracks: A5, B6, B7), Roy Eldridge (tracks: A3, B2), Shorty Rogers (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • TubaGene Englund (tracks: A5, B6, B7)
  • VibraphoneJo Roland (tracks: A7, B4), Terry Gibbs (tracks: A3, B2)
  • VocalsHerman (tracks: A5, B6, B7)

Notes

A1 Hollywood, 1950
A2 Hollywood, 1954
A3 New York City, July 9, 1953
A4 Hollywood, January 4, 1951
A5 Hollywood, January 4, 1951
A6 1952
A7 Hollywood, October 10, 1951

B1 1947
B2 New York City, July 9, 1953
B3 1952
B4 Hollywood, October 10, 1951
B5 Hollywood, 1954
B6 Hollywood, January 4, 1951
B7 Hollywood, January 4, 1951

typos:
A1 Al Goodhart, not Goodman
A7 John Latouche, not Letauch
B3 David Raskin, not Raksin
B5 Nicholas Brodszky, not Brodsky

Companies

  • Marketed By – Polydor

Video

Lcena
In fact, this LP has 16 tracks. St. Louis Blues part 1 and 2 on side A are two distinctive tracks so are How high The Moon part 1 and 2 on side B.