Jackie Gleason Plays Romantic Jazz
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Released | 1955 | |||
Genre | Mood music | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
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Jackie Gleason Plays Romantic Jazz, also known as Romantic Jazz, is a studio album by television personality, Jackie Gleason. It was released in 1955 on Capitol Records (catalog no. W-568). Gleason conducted the orchestra.[1][2]
Romantic Jazz debuted on the Billboard magazine pop album chart on November 12, 1955, peaked at No. 2, and remained on the chart for 12 weeks.[3]
AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Greg Adams called it one of Gleason's "jazzier" efforts but concludes it "isn't quite mood music or jazz -- it falls somewhere in between, with the potential to appeal to the audiences of both styles of music."[2]
Track listing
[edit]Side A
- "There'll Be Some Changes Made" (Higgins, Edwards, Overstreet)
- "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed)
- "Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar, Meyer, Kahn)
- "The Petite Waltz" (Joe Heyne)
- "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)
- "You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes" (Newman, Ager, Mencher)
- "Soon" (George & Ira Gershwin)
- "My Blue Heaven" (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson)
Side B
- "The Lady Is A Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
- "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
- "Who Cares" (George & Ira Gershwin)
- "I've Got My Eyes On You" (Cole Porter)
- "The Best Things In Life Are Free" (Desylva, Brown, Henderson)
- "I Never Knew" (Gus Kahn, Ted FioRito)
- "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" (Ernest Seitz, Eugene Lockhart)
- "The Love Nest" Louis A. Hirsch, Otto Harbach)
References
[edit]- ^ "Jackie Gleason – Jackie Gleason Plays Romantic Jazz". Discogs. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ a b "Romantic Jazz". AllMusic. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. Billboard Books. p. 126. ISBN 0823076318.