COUNT BASIE & JOE WILLIAMS “Swings & Sings”
01. Every Day I Have the Blues
02. The Comeback
03. Alright, OK, You Win
04. In the Evening, When the Sun Goes Down
05. Teach Me Tonight
06. Please Send Me Someone to Love
07. My Baby Upsets Me
08. Every Day I Fall In Love
09. Roll Em Pete
10. As I Love You
11. Stop! Dont!
12. Im Beginning to See the Light
13. Our Love Is Here to Stay
14. A Fine Romance
15. Nevertheless
16. Singin in the Rain
17. There Will Never Be Another You
18. My Baby Just Cares for Me
19. 'S Wonderful
20. This Cant Be Love
21. Come Rain or Come Shine
22. I Cant Believe That Youre In Love with Me
23. Thou Swell
24. Im Beginning to See the Light -Alternate take
Tracks #1-9 from the Clef 12" LP "Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings" (678 mono)
Tracks #10-11 from the Verve 7" single MGV-2004
Tracks #12-23 from the Verve 12" LP "The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams
Sings Standards" (SW-90558 stereo)
Track #24 is an alternate take
Personnel on all tracks
Count Basie & His Orchestra with Joe Williams
Reunald Jones, Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (tp), Bill Hughes, Henry Coker, Benny Powell (tb), Marshall
Royal (as, cl), Bill Graham (as), Frank Wess (as, ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts, arr), Charlie Fowlkes (bs, b-cl), Count Basie (p),
Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Sonny Payne (d).
Arrangements by Ernie Wilkins (#1,5), Frank Foster (#2,3,4,6,7,8,9), and Buddy Bregman (#12-24).
Recording locations:
Fine Studios, New York City, May 17 (#1-4); July 26 (#5-9), 1955
Universal Recordings Group, Chicago, January 23 (#10-11), 1956
Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, April 28 (#12-17 & 24); May 1 (#18-23), 1956
All sessions originally produced by Norman Granz
Reissue produced by Jordi Pujol and "Beethoven" Jean-Michel Reisser
Mono / Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered