The Betty Carter Album

Infobox Album | Name = The Betty Carter Album
Type = Album
Artist = Betty Carter

| Released = 1976
Recorded = Before 1975
Genre = Jazz
Length = 39:44
Label = Bet-Car/Verve
Producer = Betty Carter
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5r0qoatayijb link] | Last album = "Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard"
(1970)
This album = " The Betty Carter Album "
(1972)
Next album = "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
(1976)|

"The Betty Carter Album" is a 1976 [Bauer, William R. "Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter" (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 398.] [Carter, Betty (1976). "The Betty Carter Album" [CD liner notes] . New York: Polygram Records, Inc.] album by Betty Carter. It is unique among her albums in its use of overdubbing on some tracks to allow her to record multiple vocal lines. It was also her first album for which she wrote the majority of the songs herself.

The album was originally released on Carter's own Bet-Car label. It was first reissued on CD by Verve in 1988.

Track listing

#"You're a Sweetheart" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:57
#"I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:45
#"What is It?" (Carter) – 5:35
#"On Our Way Up (Sister Candy)" (Freddie Roach) – 1:36
#"We Tried" (Carter) – 5:53
#"Happy" (Carter) – 2:08
#"Sunday, Monday or Always" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:19
#"Tight" (Carter) – 1:36
#"Children Learn What They Live" (Dorothy Law Nolt) – 4:16
#"Sounds (Movin' On)" (Carter) – 7:17

Personnel

* Betty Carter - All vocals
* Danny Mixon - Piano
* Onaje Allan Gumbs - Piano (tracks 1, 3 and 7)
* Buster Williams - Bass
* Louis Hayes - drums
* Chip Lyle - Drums (tracks 2, 8, 9 and 10)

References