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Rhythm Is My Business
Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedJanuary 30–31, 1962
GenreJazz
Length42:25
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
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(1962)
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. The album was recorded with a big band and arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett.

Down Beat magazine gave this album 3½ stars, commenting that the emphasis here was on "swinging".

Billboard reviewed the album in September 1962 and said that it "rates a lot of play".[3]

Track listing

For the 1962 Verve LP release; Verve MG V-4056

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rough Ridin'"Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, William Tennyson2:51
2."Broadway"Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode2:43
3."You Can Depend On Me"Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines3:32
4."Runnin' Wild"Arthur Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood2:40
5."Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World 'Cause That's Where Everything Is"Les Clark, Matt Dennis2:42
6."I'll Always Be In Love With You"Bud Green, Herman Ruby, Sam H. Stept2:50
Side two
1999 CD reissue bonus tracks

Note: Track 7 has only been re-issued on CD in mono, due to the loss of the stereo master tape.[4]

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Rhythm Is My Business". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (1 September 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 23–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Sleeve notes; CD re-issue Rhythm Is My Business" in 1999 on Verve 559 513-2. (Research; Ben Young)