Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Inside Betty Carter

 
Album Review: Inside Betty Carter
Home > Library > Entertainment & Arts > Pop Albums

Inside Betty Carter

Buy Now

Similar Albums:

Extensions, NPR Jazz Christmas With Marian McPartland and Friends II, Devil May Care, Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You, Audience with Betty Carter, Ella and Oscar, I Thought About You, NEA Jazz Masters, Letter from Home, In the Wee Small Hours, In New York
  • Artist: Betty Carter
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1965
  • Total Time: 45:06
  • Genre: Vocal Music

Review

These recordings can be considered the final ones of Betty Carter's early period for, by the time she next appeared on record (in 1969), the singer was much more adventurous in her improvisations. This CD reissues eight selections from Carter's rather brief 1964 Roulette LP (under 26 minutes), plus it adds seven previously unissued numbers from 1965. On the former date Carter (who is quite memorable on "This Is Always," "Some Other Time," and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most") is accompanied by pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Roy McCurdy, while the "new" session ("There Is No Greater Love" and "You're a Sweetheart" are the standouts) features guitarist Kenny Burrell plus an unknown rhythm section in the backup band. Highly recommended to Betty Carter fans and to those listeners who find her later work somewhat forbidding. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
This Is Always Mack Gordon, Harry Warren Betty Carter (3:10)
Look No Further Richard Rodgers Betty Carter (1:55)
Beware My Heart Sam Coslow Betty Carter (5:07)
My Favorite Things (Lyrics) Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II Betty Carter (1:35)
Some Other Time (Lyrics) Leonard Bernstein, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne Betty Carter (3:46)
Open the Door (Lyrics) Otis Redding, Betty Carter Betty Carter (3:11)
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman Betty Carter (5:15)
Something Big Richard Adler Betty Carter (1:58)
New England [#] Jonathan Richman Betty Carter (2:55)
The Moon Is Low [#] Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed Betty Carter (2:00)
Once in Your Life [#] Betty Carter (2:54)
It's a Big Wide Wonderful World [#] John Rox Betty Carter (1:48)
There Is No Greater Love [#] Isham Jones, Marty Symes Betty Carter (3:46)
You're a Sweetheart [#] Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson Betty Carter (4:02)
Isn't It Romantic? [#] Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Betty Carter (1:44)

Credits

Bob Lifton (Engineer), Alan Douglas (Producer), Bob Lifton (Engineer), Kenny Burrell (Guitar), Harold Mabern (Piano), Bob Cranshaw (Bass), Betty Carter (Vocals), Bill Schwartau (Engineer), Roy McCurdy (Drums)
Search unanswered questions...

Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics

Wikipedia: Inside Betty Carter
Top
Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia
Question book-new.svg
 This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009)
Inside Betty Carter
Studio album by Betty Carter
Released 1964
Recorded April 1964 (reissue bonus tracks March 4 and May 26, 1965)
Genre Jazz
Length 45:41 (reissue)
Label United Artists
Producer Alan Douglas
Professional reviews
Betty Carter chronology
'Round Midnight
(1963)		 Inside Betty Carter
(1964)		 Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard
(1970)

Inside Betty Carter is a 1964 Betty Carter album. It contains the first recording of Carter's signature song, "Open the Door". Originally released on the United Artists label with eight tracks, it was reissued by Capitol Records in 1993 with seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1965 recording session that included Kenny Burrell on guitar.

Carter said in 1979 that Inside Betty Carter was one of her two favorite albums out of the eleven she had recorded to date.[1]

Track listing

  1. "This Is Always" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:10
  2. "Look No Further" (Richard Rodgers) – 1:55
  3. "Beware My Heart" (Sam Coslow) – 5:07
  4. "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1:35
  5. "Some Other Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:46
  6. "Open the Door" (Betty Carter) – 3:11
  7. "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolff) – 5:15
  8. "Something Big" (Richard Adler) – 1:58
  9. "New England" (unknown) – 2:55
  10. "The Moon is Low" (Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown) – 2:00
  11. "Once in Your Life" (unknown) – 2:54
  12. "It's a Big Wide Wonderful World" (John Rox) – 1:48
  13. "There Is No Greater Love" (Marty Symes, Isham Jones) – 3:46
  14. "You're a Sweetheart" (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) – 4:02
  15. "Isn't it Romantic?" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 1:44

(Tracks 9-15 not included on the original LP issue)

Personnel

Recorded April 1964 at Sound Makers, New York City, New York, USA

Recorded March 4 and May 26, 1965 at Regent Sound, New York City, New York, USA

References

  1. ^ Bauer, William R. Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 98.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

 
 

 

Copyrights:

Album Review. Copyright © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Inside Betty Carter".  Read more