The Second Time Around

Infobox Album
Name = The Second Time Around
Type = Studio album
Longtype =
Artist = Etta James


Released = 1961
Recorded = circa 1960-1961
Genre = Blues/Soul
Length = 27:14
Label = Chess/MCA
Producer = Leonard Chess
Philip Chess
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oku67ur0h0jd link]
Last album = "At Last!"
(1961)
This album = The Second Time Around
(1961)
Next album = "Etta James: Top Tens"
(1963)

"The Second Time Around" is a 1961 album by Etta James, and the second LP release for the blues singer. Released through Chess Records, the album consisted primarily of pop, blues, and jazz standards. The album's slick soul and R&B production would be lessened in later albums. Though overshadowed by James' breakthrough album "At Last!", released the same year, the record featured the hits "Fool That I Am" and "Don't Cry, Baby," as well as a number of songs which garnered airplay from Top 40 radio.

Along with James, several other artists have recorded versions (Including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Nancy Wilson). In Brian Sings and Swings - an episode of the FOX animated sitcom, Family Guy - Frank Sinatra Jr. performs an up-beat version with Brian Griffin (Voiced by the show's creator and star, Seth MacFarlane).

Track listing

#"Don't Cry, Baby" (Saul Bernie/James Johnson/Stella Unger)–2:22
#"Fool That I Am" (Floyd Hunt)–2:54
#"One for My Baby" (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)–3:26
#"In My Diary" (Michael Graham/Mark Silverman)–2:32
#"Seven Day Fool" (Billy Davis/Berry Gordy/Sonny Woods)–2:58
#"It's Too Soon to Know" (Deborah Chessler/E.H. Morris)–2:44
#"Dream" (Mercer)–2:22
#"I'll Dry My Tears" (Etta James/C. Walker)–2:34
#"Plum Nuts" (R. Plummer)–2:58
#"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell)–2:24

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Cover versions

*Michael Bolton and Nicollette Sheridan perform this song on the 2006 album "Bolton Swings Sinatra".