Four Freshmen and Five Saxes

by The Four Freshmen

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1957
  • Label: Capitol
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:00
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Bob Flanigan, Pete Rugolo, Bob Cooper, Ken Albers, Dick Reynolds, Gus Bivona, Ross Edwin Barbour, Ted Nash, Georgie Auld, Don Barbour, Wilbur Schwartz, Dave Pell Octet, Skeets Herfurt, Bud Shank

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pairing their remarkably complex, open-harmony singing with a velvety woodwind section, the vocal group delivers one of their most texturally lush recordings. The sophisticated arrangements seamlessly integrate the precision of barbershop quartets with advanced jazz chord voicings.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal, melodic, vocal-group, rhythmic, saxophone

Tracklist

  1. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) (2:28)
  2. You've Got Me Crying Again - 1996 (2:38)
  3. This Can't Be Love - 1996 (1:53)
  4. The Very Thought Of You - 1996 (2:22)
  5. East of the Sun (West of the Moon) - 1996 (3:20)
  6. I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful!) - 1996 (2:40)
  7. There's No One But You - 1996 (2:19)
  8. Sometimes I'm Happy - 1996 (2:05)
  9. For All We Know (2:21)
  10. Lullaby in Rhythm - 1996 (2:14)
  11. This Love of Mine - 1996 (2:15)
  12. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) - 1996 (3:21)

Credits

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