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Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones, May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting abilities, and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked, "there's really only one jazz singer – only one: Betty Carter."
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20, No 1's : Jazz Christmas [2016]
Song | Duration |
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Let It Snow | 5:19 |
Christmas Jazz [Hip-O] [2016]
Song | Duration |
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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town | 4:25 |
Let It Snow | 5:17 |
The Wonderful Sounds of Christmas [2016]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside |
50 Shades of Music For Her [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:10 |
Elegant Lounge: 25 Lazy Grooves [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Alone Together |
Hits by Ray Charles [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside | 4:12 |
Simply Swinging the American Songbook, Vol. 1 [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Takes Two to Tango | 3:21 |
Simply Swinging the American Songbook, Vol. 4 [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:11 |
Simply Swinging the American Songbook, Vol. 5 [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Side by Side | 2:22 |
Simply: Swinging the American Songbook [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 2:09 |
Stella by Starlight | 4:31 |
Takes Two to Tango | 4:11 |
Baby, It's Cold Outside | 3:29 |
Swings The Great American Songbook [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | |
Side By Side | |
Stella By Starlight | |
Takes Two To Tango |
The Blues Effect, Vol. 4: 100 Essential Tracks [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside | 4:11 |
The Ultimate Collection [2013]
Song | Duration |
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People Will Say We're in Love | 2:46 |
Takes Two to Tango | 3:18 |
But on the Other Hand Baby | 3:10 |
101 - Hit the Road Jack: Best of Ray Charles [2012]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside |
Jazz Divas [2011]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book |
Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles [2011]
Song | Duration |
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But on the Other Hand, Baby | 3:15 |
Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:09 |
Christmas with Sinatra and Friends [2009]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside | 4:13 |
Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:10 |
Sings For Lovers [2009]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside | 4:09 |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:38 |
Bar Jazz Best [2008]
Song | Duration |
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The Way You Look Tonight | 2:42 |
Jazz and the City [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book | 2:39 |
Jazz and the City [UMP] [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book | 2:41 |
Tokyo 1963 [2008]
Song | Duration |
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Moritat (Mack the Knife) | 22:06 |
The Way You Look Tonight | 1:49 |
Stockings by the Fire [2007]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:11 |
50 Sublimes Chanteuses de Jazz, Vol. 2 [2006]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book | 2:40 |
All Night Long [Wea International] [2006]
Song | Duration |
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The Good Life | 2:32 |
Blue Note Trip Jazzanova: Mashed [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 2:49 |
Blue Note Trip Jazzanova: Scrambled/Mashed [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 3:11 |
Definitive Collection [2006]
Song | Duration |
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The Man I Love | 7:43 |
Leopard Lounge Presents: All Nite Long - Swinging Vocals [2006]
Song | Duration |
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The Good Life | 2:35 |
50 Sublimes Chanteuses de Jazz: 1940-1953 [2005]
Song | Duration |
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The Huckle Buck | 3:09 |
All That Lounge [2005]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:17 |
Cole Porter Songbook: Night & Day [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Everytime We Say Goodbye | 5:48 |
Let´s Fall In Love (Remastered) [2005]
More Music from Ray [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:10 |
Red, Hot & Blue [Documents] [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Everytime We Say Goodbye |
Woman in Love, Vol. 1 [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 4:59 |
Zoot Suit Riot: Instrumental R'n'B Smash Hits of the 1950s [2005]
Song | Duration |
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The Hucklebuck [*] | 3:07 |
Kings of Swing [Sony Germany Box] [2004]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book [Album Version] | 2:38 |
Love for Sale: The Music of Cole Porter [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Every Time We Say Goodbye | 4:41 |
Best of Jazz Vocal Classics [2003]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:18 |
Betty Carter's Finest Hour [2003]
Me & You, You & Me: Great Jazz Duets [2003]
Song | Duration |
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The Hucklebuck | 3:10 |
Nighttime Jazz [2003]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:19 |
The Leopard Lounge: Swinging Lounge Tunes from the Warner and Atlantic Vaults [2003]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:17 |
Bar Jazz, Vol. 4 [2002]
Song | Duration |
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The Way You Look Tonight | 2:43 |
Jazz Singing [2002]
Song | Duration |
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The Trolley Song | 3:39 |
Room with a View Too [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 4:52 |
American Beauty [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 3:11 |
American Beauty [Original Soundtrack] [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 3:11 |
Just You, Just Me [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:41 |
People Will Say We're in Love | 2:53 |
Side by Side | 2:23 |
Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:12 |
For All We Know | 3:45 |
Takes Two to Tango | 3:24 |
Alone Together | 4:47 |
Just You, Just Me | 1:58 |
But on the Other Hand Baby | 3:15 |
I Like to Hear It Sometime | 2:49 |
Love Songs [Rhino] [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:09 |
Priceless Jazz [1999]
Song | Duration |
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My Reverie | 2:48 |
You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me | 2:31 |
But Beautiful | 3:59 |
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire | 2:23 |
Priceless Jazz Sampler, Vol. 5 [1999]
Song | Duration |
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But Beautiful | 4:03 |
Romantic Jazz [Sony 1999] [1999]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book |
The American Songbook [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Every Time We Say Goodbye | 3:21 |
1955-1969 [1998]
Song | Duration |
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The Way You Look Tonight | 2:43 |
Just You, Just Me | 1:56 |
Moonlight in Vermont | 3:24 |
Blue Moon | 2:04 |
I Only Have Eyes for You | 2:27 |
Alone Together | 4:45 |
Atlantic Jazz: Vocal Classics [1998]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:19 |
Duets [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Takes Two to Tango |
Ladies Take the Stage [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Round Midnight | 3:19 |
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Dedicated to You [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:41 |
People Will Say We're in Love | 2:51 |
Side by Side | 2:23 |
Takes Two to Tango | 3:22 |
Alone Together | 4:45 |
Just You, Just Me | 2:04 |
Hard Hearted Hannah | 3:18 |
Nancy (With the Laughing Face) | 3:06 |
Ruby | 3:54 |
Rosetta | 2:33 |
Stella by Starlight | 3:50 |
Josephine | 2:14 |
Candy | 4:09 |
Time for Love: Priceless Jazz [1998]
Song | Duration |
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My Reverie | 2:50 |
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:11 |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:40 |
Irving Berlin Songbook [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Remember | 2:26 |
Irving Berlin Songbook [GRP] [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Remember | 2:24 |
Schmuse Jazz, Vol. 3 [1997]
Song | Duration |
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I Could Write a Book | 2:37 |
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Lonely House | 7:32 |
Duets: Live at the Great American Music Hall [1996]
I'm Yours, You're Mine [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Lonely House | 6:30 |
East of the Sun | 4:52 |
September Song | 10:19 |
Jazz for Joy: A Verve Christmas Album [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Let It Snow | 5:19 |
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | 5:19 |
Masters of Jazz, Vol. 5: Female Vocal Classics [1996]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight |
Atlantic Jazz Vocals: Voices of Cool, Vol. 2 [1995]
Song | Duration |
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'Round Midnight | 3:17 |
Jazz Classics [Blue Note] [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Round Midnight | 5:56 |
Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant/Little Susie [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Moonlight in Vermont | 3:28 |
I Could Write a Book | 2:41 |
Old Devil Moon | 4:02 |
The Way You Look Tonight | 2:45 |
The Complete Gershwin Songbooks [1995]
Song | Duration |
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The Man I Love | 7:39 |
Those Fabulous Ladies of Jazz [1995]
Song | Duration |
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All Through the Day | 8:36 |
Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters: Verve at 50 [1994]
Song | Duration |
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How High the Moon | 4:41 |
Feed the Fire [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Sometimes I'm Happy | 3:33 |
All or Nothing at All | 8:11 |
The World of Ray Charles [Garland] [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside [1962] | 4:05 |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:35 |
People Will Say We're in Love | 2:46 |
Side by Side | 2:18 |
Takes Two to Tango | 3:17 |
Alone Together | 4:40 |
Just You, Just Me | 1:54 |
'S Wonderful: The Gershwin Songbook [1992]
Song | Duration |
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The Man I Love | 7:42 |
It's Not About the Melody [1992]
Song | Duration |
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Stay as Sweet as You Are | 7:11 |
You Go to My Head | 5:35 |
In the Still of the Night | 4:07 |
When It's Sleepy Time Down South | 7:45 |
The MPL's Treasury of Songs: The Standards [1992]
Song | Duration |
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Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:08 |
Social Call [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Moonlight in Vermont | 3:23 |
I Could Write a Book | 2:37 |
The Way You Look Tonight | 2:42 |
Tell Him I Said Hello | 2:32 |
Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook [1990]
Song | Duration |
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Every Time We Say Goodbye | 5:47 |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 5:50 |
Look What I Got [1988]
Song | Duration |
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The Man I Love | 7:40 |
Imagination | 4:55 |
The Good Life | 6:58 |
Live at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco [1987]
Song | Duration |
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But Beautiful | 5:54 |
Sometimes I'm Happy | 7:54 |
Sophisticated Lady | 3:32 |
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 6:08 |
Any Old Time [1986]
Song | Duration |
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I Hear Music | 4:45 |
The Spirit of Christmas [1985]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside | 4:13 |
The Spirit of Christmas [Remastered] [Bonus Track] [1985]
Song | Duration |
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Baby It's Cold Outside [*] | 4:12 |
Whatever Happened to Love? [1982]
Song | Duration |
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do | 10:25 |
Every Time We Say Goodbye | 5:48 |
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 5:48 |
The Audience with Betty Carter [1980]
Song | Duration |
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The Trolley Song | 3:37 |
Everything I Have Is Yours | 6:16 |
I Could Write a Book | 3:42 |
Deep Night | 2:46 |
Open the Door (Theme Song) | 5:08 |
Open the Door | 5:09 |
The Betty Carter Album [1972]
Song | Duration |
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Sunday Monday or Always | 4:19 |
Sunday, Monday or Always | 4:19 |
At the Village Vanguard [1970]
Song | Duration |
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Body and Soul | 5:21 |
I Could Write a Book | 2:18 |
'Round Midnight [1969] [1969]
Song | Duration |
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Every Time We Say Goodbye | 5:47 |
'Round Midnight | 5:53 |
Finally [1969]
Song | Duration |
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Blue Moon | 2:03 |
I Only Have Eyes for You | 2:27 |
All Through the Day | 8:39 |
Inside Betty Carter [1965]
Song | Duration |
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Open the Door | 3:11 |
There Is No Greater Love [#] | 3:46 |
'Round Midnight [1963] [1963]
Song | Duration |
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Call Me Darling | 3:55 |
'Round Midnight | 3:21 |
The Good Life | 2:38 |
Everybody's Somebody's Fool | 2:46 |
Two Cigarettes in the Dark | 2:10 |
I Can't Help It [1961]
Song | Duration |
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You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me | 2:30 |
But Beautiful | 3:58 |
What a Little Moonlight Can Do | 2:04 |
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire | 2:22 |
My Reverie | 2:47 |
Ray Charles & Betty Carter [1961]
Song | Duration |
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye | 4:42 |
People Will Say We're in Love | 2:52 |
Side by Side | 2:24 |
Baby, It's Cold Outside | 4:10 |
Takes Two to Tango | 3:23 |
Alone Together | 4:46 |
Just You, Just Me | 2:04 |
Stella By Starlight | 3:50 |
The Modern Sound of Betty Carter [1960]
Song | Duration |
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What A Little Moonlight Can Do | 2:06 |
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire | 2:24 |
My Reverie | 2:50 |
For You | 2:21 |
On the Alamo | 1:57 |
Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant [1955]
Song | Duration |
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Moonlight in Vermont | 3:23 |
I Could Write a Book | 2:37 |
Old Devil Moon | 3:59 |
The Way You Look Tonight | 2:41 |
Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant [Bonus Tracks] [1955]
Song | Duration |
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Moonlight in Vermont | 3:23 |
I Could Write a Book | 2:37 |
The Way You Look Tonight | 2:41 |
Tell Him I Said Hello | 2:32 |
Old Devil Moon | 3:59 |
The Carmen McRae - Betty Carter Duets
Song | Duration |
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But Beautiful | 5:55 |
Sometimes I'm Happy | 7:54 |
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 6:10 |
I Hear Music | 2:52 |
The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks
Song | Duration |
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Everytime We Say Goodbye | 5:50 |
The Gershwin Songbook: 'S Wonderful
Song | Duration |
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The Man I Love | 7:41 |
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