Inside Betty Carter

Infobox Album | Name = Inside Betty Carter
Type = Album
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1964
Recorded = April 1964 (reissue bonus tracks March 4 and May 26 1965)
Genre = Jazz
Length = 45:41 (reissue)
Label = United Artists/Capitol Records (1993 reissue)
Producer = Alan Douglas
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tz0xlf3egcqe link] | Last album = " 'Round Midnight "
(1962)
This album = " Inside Betty Carter "
(1964)
Next album = "Finally, Betty Carter"
(1969)|

"Inside Betty Carter" is a 1964 Betty Carter album. Originally released on the United Artists label with eight tracks, it was reissued by Capitol Records in 1993 with seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1965 recording session that included Kenny Burrell on guitar. It contains the first recording of Carter's signature tune, "Open the Door," the version which was featured in the soundtrack to the 1999 film "American Beauty".

Carter said in 1979 that "Inside Betty Carter" was one of her two favorite albums out of the eleven she had recorded to date. [Bauer, William R. "Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter" (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 98.]

Track listing

#"This Is Always" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:10
#"Look No Further" (Richard Rodgers) – 1:55
#"Beware My Heart" (Sam Coslow) – 5:07
#"My Favorite Things" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1:35
#"Some Other Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:46
#"Open the Door" (Betty Carter) – 3:11
#"Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolff) – 5:15
#"Something Big" (Richard Adler) – 1:58
#"New England" (unknown) – 2:55
#"The Moon is Low"(Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown) – 2:00
#"Once in Your Life" (unknown) – 2:54
#"It's a Big Wide Wonderful World" (John Rox) – 1:48
#"There is No Greater Love" (Marty Symes, Isham Jones) – 3:46
#"You're a Sweetheart" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) – 4:02
#"Isn't it Romantic?" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 1:44

Personnel

Recorded April 1964 at Sound Makers, New York City, New York, USA

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Harold Mabern - piano
* Bob Cranshaw - bass
* Roy McCurdy - drums

Recorded March 4 and May 26 1965 at Regent Sound, New York City, New York, USA

* Betty Carter - vocals
* Kenny Burrell - guitar
* unknown piano, bass and drums

References