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- Artist: Little Jimmy Scott
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- Release Date: 1963
- Type: Instrumental
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
In 1962, flush with the success of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Ray Charles signed one of his favorite singers, Little Jimmy Scott, to his Tangerine label with the purpose of supervising an album of ballads. He hired a pair of genial arrangers, Gerald Wilson and Marty Paich (both of whom had recently written charts for Charles), and requested them to aim for the soft strings and muted horns of classic Frank Sinatra performances recorded with ballad masters Axel Stordahl or Gordon Jenkins. With Charles himself offering sensitive interplay on his piano, Falling in Love Is Wonderful is Scott's best single LP -- charming in its earnest feeling, deeply pained as a set of torch songs -- and ranks with his "Everybody Plays the Fool" single as the best work of his career. Nothing here gets in the way of Scott's pure, angelic voice; he captures, like none other than Sinatra himself, a range of love-struck emotions, from the sheepish depression of "Why Try to Change Me" to the restrained hopefulness of "Someone to Watch Over Me." He's in the best voice of his career, holding his tight vibrato perfectly for as long as needed and making either his high or low register sound like the only natural choice on every occasion. In one of the great tragedies of recorded music, however, his former boss, Herman Lubinsky of Savoy, claimed that he still owned Scott's contract, and under threat of legal suit, the record was removed from the shelves less than a month after release. A prime collector's item for over 40 years, Falling in Love Is Wonderful finally earned a limited re-release in 2003 thanks to the boutique label Rhino Handmade. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| They Say It's Wonderful | Irving Berlin | Little Jimmy Scott | (4:04) |
| I Wish I Didn't Love You So | Frank Loesser | Little Jimmy Scott | (4:02) |
| There Is No Greater Love | Marty Symes, Isham Jones | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:27) |
| If I Should Lose You | Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:23) |
| Why Try to Change Me Now? | Cy Coleman, |
Little Jimmy Scott | (4:50) |
| I'm Getting Sentimental Over You | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:54) | |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:29) |
| How Deep Is the Ocean? | Irving Berlin | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:36) |
| I Didn't Know What Time It Was | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Little Jimmy Scott | (4:22) |
| Sunday, Monday or Always | James Van Heusen, Johnny Burke | Little Jimmy Scott | (3:25) |
