20 (album)

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Infobox Album | Name = 20
Type = Album
Artist = Harry Connick, Jr.


Released = November 1 1988
Recorded = RCA Studios A & C,
New York City,
May 4-5 and June 28-29, 1988
Genre = Solo piano
Length = 41:27
Label = Columbia
Producer = Kevin Blancq,
George Butler
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0x6gtr59kl1x link] | Last album = "Harry Connick Jr."
(1987)
This album = "20"
(1988)
Next album = "When Harry Met Sally..."
(1989)

"20" is an album Harry Connick, Jr. recorded in his 20th year. It is his second album from Columbia records, but his first album with vocal (on 6 of 11 tracks), from the label. As with his previous album, he dedicated it "to the memory of my loving mother, Anita Connick."

Track listing

# "Avalon" (V. Rose, A. Jolson, B. DeSylva) - 3:40
# "Blue Skies" (I. Berlin) - 3:45
# "Imagination" (J. Burke, J. VanHeusen) - 4:24
# "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" (E. DeLange, L. Alter) - 5:17
# "Basin Street Blues" (S. Williams) - 2:59
# "Lazy River" (H. Carmichael, S. Arodin) - 3:34
# "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (S. Clare, S. Stept) - 2:35
# "Stars Fell on Alabama" (M. Parish, F. Perkins) - 4:49
# "S'wonderful" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:00
# "If I Only Had A Brain" (H. Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 3:21
# "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (D. Ellington, B. Russell) - 4:03

Musicians

*Harry Connick, Jr. - Vocals (track #3 "Imagination", #4 "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans", #5 "Basin Street Blues", #7 "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", #10 "If I Only Had A Brain", #11 "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me"), piano
*Carmen McRae - Vocals on track #7 "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"
*Dr. John - Organ, vocals on track #4 "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans"
*Robert Leslie Hurst, III - Bass on track #11 "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me"

Charts

*1989 Top Jazz Albums # 6 cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=3572&model.vnuAlbumId=807787|title=Harry Connick, Jr. chart history|publisher=billboard.com]
*1991 The Billboard 200 # 133

Certification

*1991 Gold (June 05 1991) cite web|url=http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp|title=Recording Industry Association of America|publisher=RIAA]
*1994 Platinum (February 28 1994)

References

External links

* [http://billbeuttler.com/work41.htm When Harry Met Stardom] Bill Beuttler (American Way, August 1, 1990)