Rhythm Is My Business

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Rhythm Is My Business
Studio album by
Ella Fitzgerald
Released1962
RecordedJanuary 30–31, 1962
GenreJazz
Length42:25
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Twelve Nights in Hollywood
(2009) 		Rhythm Is My Business
(1962) 		Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
New Record Mirror[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. The album was recorded with a big band and arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett.

DownBeat magazine gave this album 3½ stars, commenting that the emphasis here was on "swinging".

Billboard reviewed the album in September 1962 and said that it "rates a lot of play".[5]

Track listing[edit]

For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4056

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rough Ridin'"Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, William Tennyson2:51
2."Broadway"Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode2:43
3."You Can Depend on Me"Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines3:32
4."Runnin' Wild"Arthur Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood2:40
5."Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World 'Cause That's Where Everything Is"Les Clark, Matt Dennis2:42
6."I'll Always Be in Love with You"Bud Green, Herman Ruby, Sam H. Stept2:50
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Hallelujah, I Love Him So"Ray Charles2:34
8."I Can't Face the Music"Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler5:00
9."No Moon at All"Redd Evans, Dave Mann2:36
10."Laughin' on the Outside"Ben Raleigh, Bernie Wayne4:53
11."After You've Gone"Henry Creamer, Turner Layton4:08
1999 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Taking a Chance on Love"Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche2:35
13."If I Could Be with You"Creamer, James P. Johnson2:39

Note: Track 7 has only been re-issued on CD in mono, due to the loss of the stereo master tape.[6]

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rhythm Is My Business". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Watson, Jimmy (23 March 1963). "Ella Fitzgerald: Rhythm Is My Business" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 106. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ "Reviews of New Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1 September 1962. p. 35. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. ^ Sleeve notes; CD re-issue Rhythm Is My Business" in 1999 on Verve 559 513-2. (Research; Ben Young)
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