Touch Me Softly

Touch Me Softly is a 1963 album by George Shearing accompanied by his quintet and a string orchestra.[2]

Touch Me Softly
Studio album by
Released1963
RecordedJanuary 14-February 15, 1963
GenreTraditional pop music, Jazz
LabelCapitol ST 1874 [1]
George Shearing chronology
Shearing Bossa Nova
(1962)
Touch Me Softly
(1963)
Jazz Concert
(1963)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "Best is a touching version of "Sunday, Monday or Always"...Actually, for this type of "dreamy" romantic music, the performances are excellent, but one should not expect much jazz on this out-of-print LP."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Just Imagine" (Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) - 2:34
  2. "Blue Room" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:33
  3. "You're Blasé" (Bruce Sievier, Ord Hamilton) - 3:07
  4. "Wait for Me" (Charles DeForest) - 3:05
  5. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods) - 2:45
  6. "Suddenly It's Spring" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:41
  7. "Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Irving Berlin) - 2:18
  8. "Sunday, Monday, or Always" (Van Heusen, Burke) - 2:40
  9. "Lollipops and Roses" (Tony Velona) - 2:40
  10. "Just as Though You Were Here" (Edgar De Lange, John Benson Brooks) - 3:12
  11. "Touch Me Softly" (Dick Allen, Stan Hoffman) - 3:37
  12. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz) - 3:22

Personnel

gollark: Clearly the best way to return data would be the osmarks.net™ DNS to IRC bridge™.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: It is clearly becoming scarily accurate. I did not add the ™ symbols.
gollark: > , in practice, though, it could probably be a "good idea" thing, although this is actually quite bad.<|endoftext|>I don't care much about the details, but I don't think it's a valid language.<|endoftext|>I mean, yes, but it would be horrible as it would be useful if you use it to write all your code on the internet™, but they probably aren't very good if you can just read the entire WHYJIT™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™
gollark: I think Discord are flailing wildly in an attempt to monetize it.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.