Singin' & Swingin' (Betty Roché album)

Singin' & Swingin' is a 1960 album by the American jazz singer Betty Roché.[2]

Singin' & Swingin'
Studio album by
Released1960
RecordedJune 3, 1960
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
LabelPrestige PRLP 7187[1]
Betty Roché chronology
Take the "A" Train
(1956)
Singin' & Swingin'
(1960)
Lightly and Politely
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Reception

Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that Roché "should have been much more famous" and that the album was "Recommended, as are all of the other recordings in her slim discography".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:48
  2. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:37
  3. "Day by Day" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:55
  4. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 3:18
  5. "Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:01
  6. "Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:56
  7. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 2:08
  8. "(It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols) – 4:10
  9. "Billie's Bounce" (Charlie Parker) – 3:12

Personnel

References

  1. "Betty Roché - Singin' and Swingin' at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. Singin' and Swingin' at AllMusic
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1226. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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