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I Can't Help It is a 1992 Betty Carter compilation album. It contains all of the tracks from her albums Out There with Betty Carter (Peacock Records, 1958) and The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (ABC-Paramount Records, 1960). The same combination of tracks had previously been released as a double LP by ABC Records under the title What a Little Moonlight Can Do.
| I Can't Help It | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | February 1958 – April 25, 1960 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 63:36 | |||
| Label | Impulse!/GRP | |||
| Betty Carter chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   link |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide |  [1] |
The title track, "I Can't Help It", was the first of Carter's own compositions that she recorded.
Track listing
edit- "I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:44
- "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards) – 2:07
- "Babe's Blues" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 2:49
- "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:30
- "But Beautiful" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:58
- "All I Got" (David Cole) – 2:15
- "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" (Walter Donaldson) – 1:45
- "Foul Play" (Norman Mapp) – 2:21
- "On the Isle of May" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:02
- "Make It Last" (Dick Haymes, Bill Paxton) – 4:30
- "The Bluebird of Happiness" (Sandor Harmati, Edward Heyman) – 1:30
- "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:37
- "For You" (Burke, Dubin) – 2:20
- "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:04
- "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
- "At Sundown" (Donaldson) – 2:42
- "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:04
- "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:22
- "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:55
- "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Mapp) – 1:56
- "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:08
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:21
- "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:47
- "Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:00
Personnel
editRecorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 1–6):
- Betty Carter – vocals
- Ray Copeland – trumpet, arranger
- Melba Liston – trombone, arranger
- Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
- Wynton Kelly – piano
- Peck Morrison – double bass
- Specs Wright – drums
Recorded February 1958, in New York City, New York, USA (tracks 7–12):
- Betty Carter – vocals
- Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland – trumpets
- Melba Liston – trombone
- Gigi Gryce, Jimmy Powell – alto saxophones
- Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
- Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone
- Wynton Kelly – piano
- Sam Jones – double bass
Arrangements by Copeland, Liston, Gryce, Golson & Tommy Bryce
Recorded August 18, 29, and 30, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA (tracks 13–24):
References
edit- ^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 128.