'S Awful Nice Explained

'S Awful Nice
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ray Conniff and His Orchestra
Cover:	'S Awful Nice.png
Released:	1958
Genre:	Easy listening
Label:	Columbia
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S Awful Nice is an album by Ray Conniff and His Orchestra. It was released in 1958 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CS-8001).^{[1] [2]}

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's popular albums chart on June 23, 1958, peaked at No. 9, and remained on that chart for 43 weeks.^[3]

AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three stars.^[2]

Track listing

Side 1

1. "(When Your Heart's On Fire) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
2. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss)
3. "June in January" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
4. "I Cover The Waterfront" (Edward Heyman, Johnny Green)
5. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble)
6. "It Had To Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)

Side 2

1. "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford)
2. "April In Paris" (Yip Harburg, Vernon Duke)
3. "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain)
4. "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin)
5. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
6. "Lovely to Look At" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ray Conniff And His Orchestra* – 'S Awful Nice. Discogs. December 29, 2020.
2. Web site: S Awful Nice. AllMusic. December 29, 2020.
3. Book: The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. Billboard Books. Joel Whitburn. 1995. 72. 0823076318.