Jimmy Witherspoon Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues(blues)(flac)[rogercc][h33t]

Jimmy Witherspoon Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues
Label : Original Blues Classics
Original Release : 14 November 1964
Recorded : 15 July, 1964.
Format: Flac



Arkansas-born blues crooner Jimmy Witherspoon found himself in Stockholm, Sweden during the summer of 1964 for two sessions, one with a brassy big band, the other with strings and vocal chorus, both arranged by the great Benny Golson. The result was an album of pop tunes, blues ballads, a folk song, and a swinging rendition of the old Ruth Brown R&B hit “Teardrops from My Eyes.”
Noteworthy are ’Spoon’s personalized treatments of numbers associated with Tony Bennett (“I Wanna Be Around”) and Connie Francis (“Who’s Sorry Now’).




Tracklist:
1 Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues 2:57
2 Everytime I Think About You 2:41
3 I Never Will Marry 2:49
4 I Wanna Be Around 3:29
5 Teardrops From My Eyes 3:01
6 And The Angels Sing 2:57
7 Who's Sorry Now 3:38
8 I'm Comin Down With The Blues 2:26
9 You're Next 2:18
10 Happy Blues 2:15
11 That's Why I'm Leaving 2:33
12 One Last Chance 3:11

Recording information: Stockholm, Sweden (15 July1964)

Personnel:
Jimmy Witherspoon (vocals, guitar)
Rune Gustafsson (guitar)
Claes Rosendahl (clarinet, saxophone)
Arne Domnérus (clarinet, alto saxophone)
Rune Falk (clarinet, baritone saxophone)
Alf Nilsson (oboe, English horn)
Bjarne Nerem (tenor saxophone)
Bertil Lövgren, Bengt-Arne Wallin, Benny Bailey (trumpet)
Bengt Olsson (French horn)
Eje Thelin, Jörgen Johansson, Georg Vernon, Ake Persson (trombone)
Jan Johansson (piano)
Egil "Bop" Johansen (drums).