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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

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Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedJanuary 23 and June 22–23, 1961
GenreJazz
Length58:25
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
Ella in Hollywood
(1961)
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
(1961)
Ella Returns to Berlin
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
New Record Mirror[4]

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! is a 1961 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a jazz quartet led by Lou Levy. The painting on the cover is by Jean Dubuffet. The liner notes are by Benny Green of the London Observer.

Track listing

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For the 1961 Verve LP album, Verve V-4053 (Mono) & V6-4053 (Stereo)

Side One:

  1. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 4:06
  2. "You're My Thrill" (Sidney Clare, Jay Gorney) – 3:35
  3. "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 3:16
  4. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:17
  5. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:28
  6. "Jersey Bounce" (Tiny Bradshaw, Buddy Feyne, Edward Johnson, Bobby Plater) – 3:33
  7. "Signing Off" (Leonard Feather, Jessyca Russell) – 3:45

Side Two:

  1. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 4:13
  2. "This Year's Kisses" (Irving Berlin) – 2:14
  3. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 4:17
  4. "(I Was) Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 2:42
  5. "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie!" (Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Billy Rose) – 2:41
  6. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 6:13
  7. "The Music Goes Round and Round" (Eddie Farley, Red Hodgson, Mike Riley) – 2:27

Bonus Tracks; Issued on the 1989 Verve-PolyGram CD Reissue, Verve-PolyGram 835 646-2 and DAT W.L.S.T. 1994 835 646 - 4

15. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Previously unreleased) (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 2:12

16. "I Got a Guy" (Previously unreleased) (Marion Sunshine) – 3:43

17. "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (Previously unreleased) (Steve Allen) – 2:43

Personnel

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Tracks 1 to 14; recorded 22–23 June 1961 in Los Angeles

Tracks 15 to 17; recorded 23 January 1961 in New York

References

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  1. ^ "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Watson, Jimmy (15 September 1962). "Ella Fitzgerald: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 79. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.