Blossom Dearie (album)
# Blossom Dearie (album)

Professional ratings :

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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |

Blossom Dearie is an album by Blossom Dearie that was recorded in 1956 and released in 1957. It was her first recording for Verve.

## Background

Dearie recorded for the Barclay label in 1955 and 1956. This eponymous album was her next recording as a leader.

## Reception

In a positive retrospective review written for the CD release, AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow praises Dearie's voice, writing its "sincerity and sense of swing wins one over after a few songs" and her "piano playing is first class".

In 2019, record club Vinyl Me, Please. reissued the album on vinyl. This was the first time the album was re-issued onto vinyl in the United States since its release.

## Track listings

* "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:11
* "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 2:45
* "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:27
* "Comment allez-vous" (Murray Grand) – 2:10
* "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:25
* "Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:59
* "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) (sung in French) – 3:09
* "Tout doucement" (Emile Jean Mercadier, Rene Albert Clausier) – 2:21
* "You for Me" (Bob Haymes) – 2:13
* "Now at Last" (Haymes) – 3:20
* "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:05
* "Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:19
* "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:44
* "A Fine Spring Morning" (Haymes) – 3:04

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release

* "They Say It's Spring" (Marty Clark, Haymes) – 3:22
* "Johnny One Note" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:10
* "Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) – 3:09

## Personnel

* Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals
* Herb Ellis – guitar
* Ray Brown – double bass
* Jo Jones – drums
