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Rockin' with Kay

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{{Infobox album

| name = Rockin' with Kay

| type = studio

| artist = Kay Starr

| cover = Rockin' with Kay.png

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| released = 1958

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| genre = Pop

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| label = RCA Victor

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| chronology =

| prev_title = Blue Starr

| prev_year = 1957

| next_title = Movin'!

| next_year = 1959

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}}

Rockin' with Kay is a studio album by Kay Starr. It was released in 1958 by RCA Victor (catalog no. LPM-1720). It was her third album for RCA Victor.{{cite web|title=Kay Starr - Rockin 'With Kay|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=December 22, 2020|url=https://www.discogs.com/Kay-Starr-Rockin-With-Kay/release/3928740}}

Reception

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| rev1 = Billboard

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|4}}

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}

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Upon its release, Billboard magazine gave the album a rating of three stars and wrote: "The wonderful, husky expressiveness of the Starr gal comes through on this selection of tunes arranged for rocking delivery."{{cite news|title=Reviews and Ratings New Popular Albums|newspaper=The Billboard|date=June 30, 1958|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18}}

AllMusic also gave the album a rating of three stars.{{cite web|title=Rockin' with Kay|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=December 22, 2020|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rockin-with-kay-mw0001879217}} Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that the arrangements were "bluesy and rocking" and that Starr sang with "her usual throaty abandon."

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Dry Bones" (traditional) [2:30]
  2. "Rockin' Chair" (Hoagy Carmichael) [3:20]
  3. "I Gotta Get Away from You" (Hal Stanley) [1:57]
  4. "Till We Meet Again" (Raymond B. Egan, Richard A. Whiting) [2:27]
  5. "True Blue Lou" (Sam Coslow, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) [2:37]
  6. "Lazy Bones" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) [3:20]

Side B

  1. "Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilkret, Gene Austin) [3:23]
  2. "The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill) [2:39]
  3. "I'm Confessin'" (Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) [3:22]
  4. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) [3:18]
  5. How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) [2:47]
  6. "Do I Worry" (Stanley Cowan, Bobby Worth) [3:03]

References

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Category:1958 albums

Category:Kay Starr albums

Category:RCA Victor albums