Days Of Wine And Roses 5:50 Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer
Sunny 6:00 Bobby Hebb
back cover
side b
1 5 J
2 . .
3 .
Ode TO Billy Joe 6:25 Bobbie Gentry
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) 3:40 Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley
By The Time I Get To Phoenix 4:45 Jim Webb
label a
recording dates
studio
label
cat no.
unknown
unknown
Verve
V6-8794
PERSONNEL
organ
Jimmy Smith
arr/cond
Johnny Pate
band unknown
TECH
producer
Johnny Pate
engineer
George Piros
label b - all from EMI issue
director of engineering
Val Valentin
REISSUES
label
year
cat no.
EMI
1968
SVLP 9253
REVIEW
It's like nearly every other
Verve album of Jimmy's in that the title track is the highlight. Jimmy is
on typically good mid tempo form and Johnny Pate underscores the tune with
some nice deep and brassy flourishes. Sadly, that's it for similarity. The
rest of the album is made up of slightly iffy to downright rubbish versions
of easy listening standards. Whose ever idea this album was should really
have just kept it to themself.