Title: What a Joy Artist: Alice Babs Label: Prophone Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 822359001473 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2015-05-26 Number of Discs: 2
This Prophone double disc, covering most of the late Alice Babs career, reacquaints fans with this fantastic voice of Swedish jazz. Disc 1 focuses on songs sung in Swedish, disc 2 containing songs sung in English. One of Alice's many collaborators, Duke Ellington, composed several works in a sacred style especially for her. When these same works were performed without Ms. Babs, it took three different singers to cover the entire register. Alice Babs was named singer to the royal court in 1972, the first who had not come from an operatic background. Her final retreat from the stage came in 1980.
Tracks: 1.1 Swing It, Magistem 1.2 Jag Har en Liten Radiola 1.3 Stigbergsgatan 8 1.4 Adress Rosenhill 1.5 Tva Hjartan I Swing 1.6 Regntunga Skyar 1.7 En Gang Jag Seglar I Hamn 1.8 Pa Sondag 1.9 How Do You Do, Mr Swing 1.10 Varat Gang 1.11 Killen Ar 'Crazy' 1.12 Puck, Muck, Mack, Jack, Pim, Tim, Tom 1.13 Lille Prins Sol 1.14 Hey Diddle-Diddle 1.15 Jag Undrar Vem 1.16 Ha Ha Ha 1.17 Sjung Och Le 1.18 Ett Glatt Humor 1.19 Jitterbug Fran Soder 1.20 Ga Opp Och Prova Dina Vingar 2.1 God Bless the Child 2.2 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 2.3 What a Joy 2.4 Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit 2.5 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 2.6 Yesterday 2.7 Close to You 2.8 Said the Willow Tree 2.9 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2.10 In a Mellow Tone 2.11 Vocalise 2.12 Freedom I 2.13 There's Something About Me 2.14 Warm Valley 2.15 It Don't Mean a Thing
