That's Just the Way I Want to Be
1970 studio album by Blossom Dearie
That's Just the Way I Want to Be | ||||
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Studio album by Blossom Dearie | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | 1970 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Fontana | |||
Producer | Pete King for Ronnie Scott Directions Ltd. | |||
Blossom Dearie chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
That's Just the Way I Want to Be is a 1970 album by Blossom Dearie. For the first time, the focus is on Dearie as a songwriter with her co-writing nine of the album's 12 tracks. She took the opportunity to pay tribute to some of her contemporaries: John Lennon (the object of her praise in "Hey John"), Georgie Fame and Dusty Springfield. The last song, "I Like London In The Rain", contains an opening breakbeat that has been sampled by hip hop producers.
Track listing
- "That's Just the Way I Want to Be" – 3:48
- "Long Daddy Green" (Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg) – 3:23
- "Sweet Surprise" – 3:18
- "Hey John" – 3:31
- "Sweet Georgie Fame" (Dearie, Sandra Harris) – 3:24
- "Both Sides Now" (Joni Mitchell) – 3.19
- "Dusty Springfield" (Dearie, Jim Council, Norma Tanega) – 1.55
- "Will There Really Be a Morning" (John Wallowitch, Emily Dickinson) – 3.07
- "I Know the Moon" – 3:28
- "Inside a Silent Tear" (Dearie, Peter King) – 2:16
- "Yesterday When I Was Young" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) – 5:11
- "I Like London in the Rain" – 2:39
All songs by Blossom Dearie and Jim Council, except as indicated.
Personnel
- Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals
- Ian Carr – flugelhorn
- Jeff Clyne – bass
- Harold McNair – flute, tenor saxophone
- Daryl Runswick – bass
- Ray Warleigh – flute
- Spike Wells – drums
- Kenny Wheeler – trumpet
- The Ladybirds – voices
- The Hooray String Section – strings
- Brian Gascoigne – orchestrations
References
- ^ Allmusic review
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
or co-leader
- Blossom Dearie (1956)
- Give Him the Ooh-La-La (1957)
- Once Upon a Summertime (1958)
- Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green (1959)
- My Gentleman Friend (1959)
- Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs (1960)
- Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs (1963)
- May I Come In? (1964)
- Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's (1966)
- Sweet Blossom Dearie (released 1967)
- That's Just the Way I Want to Be (1970)
- Simply (1982)
- Chez Wahlberg: Part One (1985)
- Songs of Chelsea (1988)
- Tweedledum & Tweedledee
(Two People Who Resemble Each Other, in this Case Musically) (and Mike Renzi, 1991)