Blossom Dearie (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Blossom Dearie
Type = Album
Artist = Blossom Dearie

| Released = April 1957
Recorded = September 11–12, 1956
Genre = Jazz
Length =
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:aa3gtq8zbu4o link] | Last album = "Blossom Dearie Plays "April in Paris""
(1956)
This album = "Blossom Dearie "
(1956)
Next album = "Give Him the Ooh-La-La"
(1957)

"Blossom Dearie" is a 1957 (see 1957 in music) studio album by Blossom Dearie, it was her first recording for Verve Records.

This is Dearie's first American solo album. Already famous for the group "Les Blue Stars" of France and their French version of "Lullaby of Birdland", Norman Granz personally invited her to record for Verve Records.

Track Listings

#"'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) - 2:11
#"Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 2:45
#"Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:27
#"Comment Allez-Vous" (Murray Grand) - 2:10
#"More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 3:25
#"Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) - 2:59
#"It Might as Well Be Spring" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) (sung in French) - 3:09
#"Tout Doucement" (Emile Jean Mercadier, Rene Albert Clausier) - 2:21
#"You For Me" (Bob Haymes) - 2:13
#"Now At last" (Haymes) - 3:20
#"I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:05
#"Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:19
#"I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:44
#"A Fine Spring Morning" (Haymes) - 3:04
#: "Cd reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release:"
#"They Say It's Spring" (Marty Clark, Haymes) - 3:22
#"Johnny One Note" (Rodgers, Hart) - 2:10
#"Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) - 3:09

Personnel

*Blossom Dearie - piano, vocals
*Jo Jones- drums
*Ray Brown- double bass
*Herb Ellis- guitar