Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! Explained

Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
Type:	studio
Artist:	Rosemary Clooney
Cover:	rosieclap.jpg
Released:	1960
Recorded:	February 18–27, 1960
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	31:09
Label:	RCA Victor
Prev Title:	Rosie Swings Softly
Prev Year:	1960
Next Title:	Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle!
Next Year:	1960

Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie! is a 1960 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, arranged by Bob Thompson and released by RCA Victor. The album earned Clooney a 1961 Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Vocal Performance (Album), but she lost to Ella Fitzgerald for .^[1]

Track listing

1. "Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!"/"Everything's Coming up Rosie" (Ballard MacDonald, Joseph Meyer, Billy Rose)/(Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) – 2:20
2. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 2:33
3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 2:43
4. "Aren't You Glad You're You?" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:17
5. "You Got" (Bernard) – 2:44
6. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard Whiting) – 2:10
7. "Something's Gotta Give" (Mercer) – 2:20
8. "Hooray for Love" (Harold Arlen, Leo Robin) – 2:26
9. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:36
10. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:14
11. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:30
12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:16

Personnel

Performance

• Rosemary Clooney – vocal
• Bob Thompson – arranger, conductor

Notes and References

1. Web site: Grammy Award Nominees 1961 – Grammy Award Winners 1961.