The Modern Sound of Betty Carter

Infobox Album | Name = The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
Type = Album
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1960
Recorded = August 18 - 30, 1960
Genre = Jazz
Length = 57:27
Label = ABC Records
Producer = Betty Carter
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kc6gtr7lkl3x link] | Last album = "I Can't Help It"
(1958-60)
This album = " The Modern Sound of Betty Carter "
(1960)
Next album = "Ray Charles and Betty Carter"
(1961)|

"The Modern Sound of Betty Carter" is a 1960 (see 1960 in music) album by Betty Carter.

The album has been available since 1992 on CD format as "I Can't Help It (album)" on GRP Records's Impulse! label series (ASIN no. B000003N6D). (This CD includes songs from the 1958 Peacock LP "Out There (Betty Carter album)".) [ [http://www.ziplink.net/~lwalker/betcardisc.html Betty Carter Discography ] ]

Track listing

#"What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:06
#"There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:11
#"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:24
#"Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
#"My Reverie" (Larry Clinton) – 2:50
#"Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:06
#"Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:02
#"Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Norman Mapp) – 1:58
#"For You" (Joe Burke, Al Dubin) – 2:21
#"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:24
#"At Sundown" (Walter Donaldson) – 2:44
#"On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:56

Personnel

Recorded August 18 - 30, 1960, New York City, New York, USA:

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Richard Wess - arranger, conductor

References