Jazz Spectacular

Jazz Spectacular
Jazz Spectacular
Studio album by Frankie Laine
Released	1956
Recorded	October 24–25, 1955
Genre	Vocal
Length	48:18
Label	Columbia
Frankie Laine chronology

Jazz Spectacular is Frankie Laine's fifteenth 12" long-play album, recorded in 1955 and released early in 1956. This is a Frankie Laine theme album, the theme being jazz, recorded with jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton, pianist Sir Charles Thompson, tenor-saxophonist Budd Johnson, trombonist Urbie Green, and guest trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding.^[1]

Billboard magazine stated Laine cut the album while rushing back and forth between his act at New York's Latin Quarter.^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing[edit]

Track	Song title	Composer(s)
1.	"S'posin'"	Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf
2.	"Stars Fell on Alabama"	Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins
3.	"Until the Real Thing Comes Along"	Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
4.	"My Old Flame"	Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
5.	"You Can Depend on Me"	Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines
6.	"That Old Feeling"	Lew Brown, Sammy Fain
7.	"Taking a Chance on Love"	Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche
8.	"If You Were Mine"	Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer
9.	"Baby, Baby All the Time"	Bobby Troup
10.	"Roses of Picardy"	Frederick Weatherly, Haydn Wood
11.	"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"	Cole Porter

References[edit]

^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
^ "Billboard". February 25, 1956: 31. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links[edit]

The Frankie Laine discography

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[1] "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.

[2] "Billboard". February 25, 1956: 31. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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v t e Frankie Laine
Studio albums	Frankie Laine (three albums, 1950) One for My Baby A Musical Portrait of New Orleans (with Jo Stafford) Mr. Rhythm Jazz Spectacular Frankie Laine and the Four Lads Rockin' Foreign Affair Torchin' Reunion in Rhythm (with Michel Legrand) You Are My Love Frankie Laine, Balladeer Hell Bent for Leather! Deuces Wild Call of the Wild Wanderlust I'll Take Care of Your Cares I Wanted Someone to Love To Each His Own You Gave Me a Mountain
Compilations	With All My Heart Singing the Blues Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits Frankie Laine's Golden Hits
Singles	"The 3:10 to Yuma" "Answer Me" "The Ballad of High Noon" "Cool Water" "The Cry of the Wild Goose" "Dream a Little Dream of Me" "Granada" "Hey Joe" "Hey, Good Lookin'" "Hummingbird" "I Believe" "Tell Me a Story" "Dammit Isn't God's Last Name" "Don't Make My Baby Blue" "I'll Take Care of Your Cares" "I'm Gonna Be Strong" "In the Beginning" "Jezebel" "The Kid's Last Fight" "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" "Mam'selle" "Moonlight Gambler" "Mule Train" "Rawhide" "Rose, Rose, I Love You" "Shine" "Sixteen Tons" "Some Day" "Sugar Bush" "That Lucky Old Sun" "That's Good, That's Bad" "That's My Desire" "To Each His Own" "Up Above My Head" "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" "A Woman in Love" "Making Memories" "You Gave Me a Mountain" "You Wanted Someone to Play With (I Wanted Someone to Love)" "You, No One but You" "Your Cheatin' Heart"
Related	Discography

v t e Buck Clayton
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader	The Huckle-Buck and Robbins' Nest (1953) How Hi the Fi (1953–54) Buck Clayton Jams Benny Goodman (1953–54) Buck Meets Ruby (and Ruby Braff, 1954) Jumpin' at the Woodside (1954–55) All the Cats Join In (1953–56) Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (and Harry "Sweets" Edison, 1958) Songs for Swingers (1958) Copenhagen Concert (and Jimmy Rushing, 1959) Newport Jazz Festival All Stars (1959) Buck & Buddy (and Buddy Tate, 1960) Goin' to Kansas City (1960) Swingin' with Pee Wee (and Pee Wee Russell, 1960) Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues (1961) One for Buck (1961)
With others	The Original American Decca Recordings (Count Basie, 1937–39) The Count! (Count Basie, 1962; arranger only) Jazz Spectacular (Frankie Laine, 1955) The High and Mighty Hawk (Coleman Hawkins, 1958) Basie Reunion (Paul Quinichette, 1958) Swinging Like Tate (Buddy Tate, 1958) Bones for the King (Dicky Wells, 1958)