Buddy Rich Just Sings Explained

Buddy Rich Just Sings
Type:	studio
Artist:	Buddy Rich
Cover:	BuddyRich_BuddyRichJustSings.jpg
Released:	1957
Recorded:	1957
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	38:52
Label:	Verve
Producer:	Norman Granz
Prev Title:	This One's for Basie
Prev Year:	1956
Next Title:	Buddy Rich in Miami
Next Year:	1958

Buddy Rich Just Sings is a 1957 studio album by Buddy Rich, one of three vocal albums that Rich recorded. The album has also been re-issued on CD with the contents of The Voice is Rich added as 'bonus' material.

Track listing

1. "Cathy" (Mel Tormé) – 3:24
2. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:09
3. "It's All Right with Me" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 2:32
4. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) – 4:19
5. "You Took Advantage of Me" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:43
6. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:29
7. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg) – 2:52
8. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton) – 3:03
9. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 5:01
10. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:05
11. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 3:39

Personnel

• Ben Webster - tenor saxophone
• Buddy Rich - vocals, drums
• Alvin Stoller - drums
• Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
• Howard Roberts - guitar
• Paul Smith - piano
• Joe Mondragon - double bass
• Mike Mainieri - vibraphone