Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs

Infobox Album | Name = Soubrette: Blossom Dearie Sings Broadway Hit Songs
Type = Album
Artist = Blossom Dearie

| Released = 1960
Recorded = February 19 and 22, 1960
Genre = Jazz
Length =
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz, Blossom Dearie
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09ftxqqsld0e link] | Last album = "My Gentleman Friend"
(1961)
This album = "Soubrette: Blossom Dearie Sings Broadway Hit Songs"
(1960)
Next album = "Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs"
(1963)

"Soubrette: Blossom Dearie Sings Broadway Hit Songs" is a 1960 (see 1960 in music) studio album by Blossom Dearie, with an orchestra arranged by Russell Garcia.

This was Dearie's first album recorded with full orchestral arrangements.

Track listing

#"Guys and Dolls" (Frank Loesser) - 2:52
#"Confession" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 2:44
#"Rhode Island Is Famous for You" (Dietz, Schwartz) - 2:14
#"To Keep My Love Alive" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:26
#"Too Good for the Average Man" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:31
#"The Gentleman Is a Dope" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) - 4:19
#"Always True to You in My Fashion" (Cole Porter) - 2:52
#"Napoleon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 4:19
#"Life Upon the Wicked Stage" (Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) - 2:42
#"The Physician" (Porter) - 2:15
#"Love Is the Reason" (Dorothy Fields, Schwartz) - 3:37
#"Buckle Down, Winsocki" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) - 1:49

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11 recorded on February 19, 1960.Tracks 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12 recorded February 22, 1960.

Personnel

*Blossom Dearie - piano, vocals
*Russell Garcia - conductor, arranger