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Rockin' with Kay

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Rockin' with Kay
Studio album by
Released1958
GenrePop
LabelRCA Victor
Kay Starr chronology
Blue Starr
(1957)
Rockin' with Kay
(1958)
Movin'!
(1959)

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.[1][2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard[3]
AllMusic[1]

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."[3]

AllMusic also gave the album a rating of three stars.[1] Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that the arrangements were "bluesy and rocking" and that Starr sang with "her usual throaty abandon."[1]

Track listing

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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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  1. ^ a b c d "Rockin' with Kay". AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  2. ^ "Kay Starr - Rockin 'With Kay". Discogs. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Reviews and Ratings New Popular Albums". The Billboard. June 30, 1958. p. 18.