Jimmy Scott Discography 1

jimmy scott disc01 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL

USA   < CD > March 9, 1999 / GRP Records/Universal
             Music / GRD-669
JAPAN < CD > July 28, 2000 / Universal Music Company
            / MVCJ24032 / Yen2,541(tax included)
No. Song Title Lyric / Music Time
1 Everybody's Somebody's Fool Regina Adams / Jimmy Scott, Doug Duke 3:24
2 I Wish I Knew Mack Gordon / Harry Warren 3:03
3 Please Give Me A Chance Lillian Friedlander / Lionel Hampton 3:02
4 I've Been A Fool (Thinking You Cared) Gladys DeJesus 2:55
5 Wheel Of Fortune Bennie Benjamin/George Weiss 2:49
6 Come What May Vaughn Horton 2:06
7 They Say You Cry Don Marcotte/Abner Spector 2:43
8 When You Surrender Ted Battaglia/Larry Cummings/Tom Fontenella 2:40
9 Alone With A Memory unknown 2:46
10 Do You Mind If I Hang Around ? unknown 2:45
11 Something From A Fool Haven DeHaven 2:43
12 Why Was I Born ? Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern 3:05
13 The Bluest Blues J. Leslie McFarland 3:07
14 You Never Miss The Water (Till The Well Runs Dry) Lucky Thompson 2:40
15 Solitude Eddie De Lange, Irving Mills / Duke Ellington 2:51
Jimmy Scott( vocals )
1-4 / Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra           5-7 / unknown
8-11 / Billy Taylor and His Orchestra           12-15 / Lucky Thompson and His Orchestra

Recording date and city :
4 / January 5, 1950                1 / January 25, 1950          2-3 / January 26, 1950
5-7 / January 10, 1952           8-11 / March 5, 1952          12-15 / August 1, 1952
New York City
Cover Photo : Courtesy of Michael Ochs Archives        Photography : Courtesy of Jimmy Scott

Reissue Produced by Orrin Keepnews
US issue includes liner note by Billy Vera.
Japanese issue includes Billy Vera's original liner note, it's Japanese translation and English Lyrics of the songs.
  This is a compilation album of 15 songs which were recorded for Decca, Coral and Brunswick labels in 1950 and 1952. Includes Little Jimmy Scott's incredible first recordings, with Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, Billy Taylor and His His Orchestra and Lucky Thompson and His Orchestra.Three tracks(No.9,10,13) were never-before released.
  "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," recorded at his second session with Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, gave him the first and only chart hit, placing at No. 6 on Billboard's list of R&B jukebox platters. Jimmy Scott has sung this song every so often as encore at live performaces.

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