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Bittersweet (Carmen McRae album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Bittersweet

| type = Studio

| artist = Carmen McRae

| cover = Bittersweet (Carmen McRae album).png

| border = yes

| released = {{start date|1964}}

| recorded = May 20, 1964{{cite web|url=https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/carmen-mcrae/carmen-mcrae-60s-discography.php|title=Carmen McRae - The 1960's|website=Jazz Discography|date=August 22, 2006|access-date=September 8, 2024}}

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Vocal jazz

| length = 43:10

| label = Focus

| producer = Mort Fega

| prev_title = Live at Sugar Hill

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Second to None

| next_year = 1964

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|first=Ken|last=Dryden|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bittersweet-mw0000215902|title=Bittersweet Review|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=September 8, 2024}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|first=Colin|last=Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|chapter=McRae, Carmen|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=2011|isbn=978-1561592371}}

}}

Bittersweet is a studio album by American singer Carmen McRae, released in 1964 on producer Mort Feghi's independent label Focus Records and distributed by Atlantic Records. The album received critical acclaim.{{cite magazine|title=Albums Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0UEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT1|magazine=Billboard|date=July 25, 1964|volume=76|issue=30|page=|issn=0006-2510}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1964/CB-1964-07-18a-OCR-Page-0032.pdf|title=Cash Box Album Reviews|magazine=Cash Box|date=July 18, 1964|issn=0008-7289}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Record-World-IDX/IDX/60s/64/RW-1964-07-18-OCR-Page-0010.pdf|title=Album Reviews|magazine=Record World|date=July 18, 1964|page=10|issn=0034-1622}}{{cite magazine|first=Ted|last=Williams|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Record-World-IDX/IDX/60s/65/Record-World-1965-06-12-OCR-Page-0009.pdf|title=New LP's of Note|magazine=Record World|date=June 12, 1965|page=9|issn=0034-1622}}{{cite magazine|first=Nat|last=Hentoff|author-link=Nat Hentoff|title=Carmen McRae: The Best in Jazz Today|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-HiFI-Stereo/60s/HiFi-Stereo-Review-1964-10.pdf|magazine=Hi Fi/Stereo Review|date=November 1964|volume=13|issue=4|pages=68|issn=0039-1220}}

Track listing

  1. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 3:50
  2. "How Did He Look?" (Gladys Shelley, Abner Silver) – 3:08
  3. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:36
  4. "The Meaning of the Blues" (Bobby Troup, Leah Worth) – 2:49
  5. "If You Could Love Me" (Norman Simmons) – 2:08
  6. "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 6:21
  7. "Second Chance" (Dory Langdon, André Previn) – 3:37
  8. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 2:52
  9. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen) – 2:44
  10. "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy) – 3:23
  11. "Ghost of Yesterday" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 3:09
  12. "I'm Lost" (Otis René) – 2:53
  13. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 2:40

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{Cite AV media notes|first=Ralph J.|last=Gleason|title=Bittersweet|others=Carmen McRae|year=1964|type=liner notes|publisher=Focus Records|id=FM 334|location=US}}

References

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External links

  • {{Discogs master|543025|Bittersweet}}

{{Carmen McRae}}

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Category:1964 albums

Category:Carmen McRae albums

Category:Atlantic Records albums