Story of the Blues / A Date with Della Reese at Mr. Kelly's in Chicago

Who played on Story of the Blues / A Date with Della Reese at Mr. Kelly's in Chicago

• Della Reese vocals on 11 tracks
• Kirk Stuart piano on 11 tracks

Tracklist

1. 1 The Story of the Blues 1:28
2. 2 Good Morning Blues 3:50
3. 3 Empty Bed Blues 3:37
4. 4 Squeeze Me — Fats Waller 3:13
5. 5 You've Been a Good Old Wagon — John Henry ‘Perry’ Bradford 3:34
6. 6 Sent for You Yesterday — Count Basie, Eddie Durham 2:28
7. 7 St James Infirmary standard — [traditional] 3:56
8. 8 Lover Man standard 3:42
9. 9 Things Ain't What They Used to Be standard — Mercer Ellington 2:45
10. 10 Stormy Weather standard — Harold Arlen 4:10
11. 11 There's Always the Blues 3:20
12. 12 Sometimes I'm Happy standard — Irving Caesar 2:02
13. 13 Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe standard — Harold Arlen 4:09
14. 14 Almost Like Being in Love standard — Frederick Loewe 2:05
15. 15 Someone to Watch Over Me standard — George Gershwin 4:00
16. 16 The Birth of the Blues standard — Ray Henderson 2:46
17. 17 Pennies From Heaven standard — Arthur Johnston 1:50
18. 18 Getting to Know You — Richard Rodgers 2:14
19. 19 If I Forget You 3:13
20. 20 All of Me standard 1:53
21. 21 The Nearness of You standard — Hoagy Carmichael 3:11
22. 22 Just One of Those Things standard — Cole Porter 3:57
23. 23 The Party's Over standard — Jule Styne 1:42

Production

• Morty Palitz producer

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