''Still on the Road'' is a 1994
album
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by
Rosemary Clooney
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.
Like her 1992 album
Girl Singer
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The introduction to "Straighten Up ...
, ''Still on the Road'' features Clooney singing with a big band directed by her pianist John Oddo.
Track listing
# "
On the Road Again" (
Willie Nelson
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) – 3:35
# "Rules of the Road" (
Cy Coleman
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Carolyn Leigh
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# "
Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" (
Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Gene Lees
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# "
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
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Yip Harburg
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Burton Lane
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Let's Get Away from It All
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Tom Adair
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Matt Dennis
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# "Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town)" (
Willard Robison
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# "
(Back Home Again In) Indiana
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James F. Hanley
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Ballard MacDonald
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Jerome Kern
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) – 1:56
# "Take Me Back to Manhattan" (
Cole Porter
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# "
How Deep Is the Ocean?" (
Irving Berlin
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# "
Road to Morocco
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Jack Sheldon
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Johnny Burke,
Jimmy Van Heusen
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Life and care ...
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# "Still on the Road" (Earl Brown,
Bill Mumy
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# "
Till We Meet Again" - with Earl Brown (
Raymond B. Egan
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# "Let's Eat Home" (
Dave Frishberg
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# "
Still Crazy After All These Years
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Paul Simon
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Personnel
Performance
* Rosemary Clooney – vocals
* Daniel Greco – percussion
* Larry McGuire – trumpet, flugelhorn
*
John Oddo
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– piano
*
Joe Porcaro – percussion
*
Chuck Berghofer
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– bass guitar
* Warren Luening – trumpet, flugelhorn
* Tommy Newson – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Tim May – guitar
* Charles Loper – trombone
* Larry Hall – trumpet, flugelhorn
*
Gary Foster – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
*
Jeff Hamilton – drums
* Don Ashworth – baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe
* Joe Soldo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Dan Higgins – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Phil Teele – trombone
* Rick Baptist – trumpet, flugelhorn
References
1994 albums
Rosemary Clooney albums
Concord Records albums
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