Today I Sing the Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  Today I Sing the Blues
  2:48
• 2
  Won’t Be Long
  3:10
• 3
  Operation Heartbreak
  3:00
• 4
  Who Needs You?
  2:48
• 5
  Right Now
  2:23
• 6
  (Blue) By Myself
  2:40
• 7
  Love Is the Only Thing
  2:42
• 8
  I Surrender, Dear
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 9
  It Ain’t Necessarily So
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Maybe I’m a Fool
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Rock‐a‐Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
  2:25
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Sweet Lover
  3:22
• 13
  Kissin’ by the Mistletoe
  2:25
• 14
  Are You Sure
  2:41
• 15
  Over the Rainbow
  2:40
• 16
  All Night Long
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 17
  When They Ask About You
  3:02

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Release credits

• Al Kasha
  producer [3, 8, 11, 17]
• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [4, 6, 10, 14, 16]
• Aretha Franklin
  piano [2-4, 8, 10-11, 14], vocal [9]
• Belton Evans
  drums (drum set) [2, 9, 12]
• Bernard Eichenbaum
  violin [3, 8, 11]
• Bill Lee
  bass [1-2, 5-7, 9, 12, 15-16]
• Bucky Pizzarelli
  guitar [3, 8, 11]
• C. Massey
  saxophone [3, 8, 11]
• Charles Libove
  violin [3, 8, 11]
• Chauncey Westbrook
  guitar [1, 4, 6-7, 9-10, 14-16]
• Curtis Lewis
  arranger [1-2]
• Ernest Hayes
  piano [3, 8, 11]
• Gary Chester
  drums (drum set) [3, 11]
• George Ockner
  violin [3, 8, 11]
• Harry Katzman
  violin [3, 8, 11]
• Harry Lookofsky
  violin [3, 8, 11]
• J. Leslie McFarland
  arranger [4, 6, 9-10, 14, 16]
• James Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [5]
• John Hammond
  producer [1-2, 4, 6, 9-10, 14, 16]
• Leo Sacks
  mix [2]
• Mark Wilder
  mix [2]
• Milt Hinton
  bass [4, 10, 14]
• Osie Johnson
  drums (drum set) [1, 7, 15]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [6, 16]
• Ray Bryant
  piano [1-2, 6-7, 9, 12, 15-16]
• Richard Wess
  arranger [3, 8, 11], conductor [3, 8, 11]
• Robert Ascher
  trombone [3, 8, 11]
• Russ Savakus
  bass [3, 8, 11]
• Skeeter Best
  guitar [5]
• Sticks Evans
  drums (drum set) [4, 6, 10, 14, 16]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [1, 5, 7, 15]
• Warren Luckey
  tenor saxophone [9]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [3, 8, 11]
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