''Still on the Road'' is a 1994
album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...
by
Rosemary Clooney.
Like her 1992 album
Girl Singer, ''Still on the Road'' features Clooney singing with a big band directed by her pianist John Oddo.
Track listing
# "
On the Road Again" (
Willie Nelson
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) – 3:35
# "Rules of the Road" (
Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
Life and career
Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, to Ashkenazi, Eastern European Jewish parents, an ...
,
Carolyn Leigh
Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards "Witchcraft" and " The Best Is Yet to Come". W ...
) – 4:25
# "
Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" (
Antonio Carlos Jobim,
Gene Lees) – 3:06
# "
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (
Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (w ...
,
Burton Lane
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) – 5:00
# "
Let's Get Away from It All" (
Tom Adair,
Matt Dennis
Matthew Loveland Dennis (February 11, 1914 – June 21, 2002) was an American singer, pianist, band leader, arranger, and writer of music for popular songs.
Biography
Dennis was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His mother was a viol ...
) – 4:07
# "Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town)" (
Willard Robison
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) – 3:24
# "
(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (
James F. Hanley,
Ballard MacDonald) – 2:02
# "
Ol' Man River
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" (
Oscar Hammerstein II
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,
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over ...
) – 1:56
# "Take Me Back to Manhattan" (
Cole Porter
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) – 5:09
# "
How Deep Is the Ocean?" (
Irving Berlin
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) – 4:11
# "
Road to Morocco
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" - with
Jack Sheldon (
Johnny Burke,
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television, and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Awards for ...
) – 2:31
# "Still on the Road" (Earl Brown,
Bill Mumy
Charles William Mumy Jr. (; born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, writer, producer, and musician. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on ''Bewitched'', ''I Dream of Jeannie'', ''T ...
) – 4:34
# "
Till We Meet Again" - with Earl Brown (
Raymond B. Egan,
Richard A. Whiting) – 3:04
# "Let's Eat Home" (
Dave Frishberg) – 2:59
# "
Still Crazy After All These Years" (
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel. He and Garfunkel, whom he met in elementary school in 1953, came to prominence in the 1960s as Sim ...
) – 4:03
Personnel
Performance
* Rosemary Clooney – vocals
* Daniel Greco – percussion
* Larry McGuire – trumpet, flugelhorn
*
John Oddo – piano
*
Joe Porcaro – percussion
*
Chuck Berghofer – bass guitar
* Warren Luening – trumpet, flugelhorn
* Tommy Newson – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Tim May – guitar
* Charles Loper – trombone
* Larry Hall – trumpet, flugelhorn
*
Gary Foster – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
*
Jeff Hamilton – drums
* Don Ashworth – baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe
* Joe Soldo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Dan Higgins – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Phil Teele – trombone
* Rick Baptist – trumpet, flugelhorn
References
1994 albums
Rosemary Clooney albums
Concord Records albums
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