I Can't Help It (album)

Infobox Album | Name = I Can't Help It
Type = Compilation
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1992
Recorded = February 1958 - April 25, 1960
Genre = Jazz
Length = 63:36
Label = Impulse!/GRP
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9t8m96bodep6 link] | Last album = " Out There with Betty Carter "
(1958)
This album = " I Can't Help It "
(1958-60)
Next album = "The Modern Sound of Betty Carter"
(1960)|

"I Can't Help It" is a 1992 Betty Carter compilation album. It contains all the tracks from her albums "Out There with Betty Carter" (Peacock Records, 1958) and "The Modern Sound of Betty Carter" (ABC-Paramount Records, 1960). The same combination of tracks had previously been released as a double LP by ABC Records under the title "What a Little Moonlight Can Do".

The title track, "I Can't Help It," was the first of Carter's own compositions that she recorded.

Track listing

# "I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:44
# "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards) – 2:07
# "Babe's Blues" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 2:49
# "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:30
# "But Beautiful" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:58
# "All I Got" (David Cole) – 2:15
# "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" (Walter Donaldson) – 1:45
# "Foul Play" (Norman Mapp) – 2:21
# "On the Isle of May" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:02
# "Make It Last" (Dick Haymes, Bill Paxton) – 4:30
# "The Bluebird of Happiness" (Sandor Harmati, Edward Heyman) – 1:30
# "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:37
# "For You" (Burke, Dubin) – 2:20
# "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:04
# "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
# "At Sundown" (Donaldson) – 2:42
# "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:04
# "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:22
# "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:55
# "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Mapp) – 1:56
# "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:08
# "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:21
# "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:47
# "Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:00

Personnel

Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 1-6):

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Ray Copeland - trumpet, arranger
* Melba Liston - trombone, arranger
* Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
* Wynton Kelly - piano
* Peck Morrison - bass
* Specs Wright - drums

Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 7-12):

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland - trumpets
* Melba Liston - trombone
* Gigi Gryce, Jimmy Powell - alto saxophones
* Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
* Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone
* Wynton Kelly - piano
* Sam Jones - bass
Arrangements by Copeland, Liston, Gryce, Golson & Tommy Bryce

Recorded August 18, 29, & 30, 1960, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 13-24):
* Betty Carter - vocals
* Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Weiss