''For the First Time'' is a 1974

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by Count Basie, with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Louie Bellson. Basie, Brown and Bellson followed ''For the First Time'' with '' For the Second Time'' (1975).

Track listing

#"Baby Lawrence" ( Count Basie) – 3:10 #"Pres" (Basie) – 3:28 #"I'll Always Be in Love With You" ( Bud Green, Fred Ruby,

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) – 5:54 #"Blues in the Church" (Basie) – 5:00 #" Oh, Lady Be Good oncept 1 (

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, Ira Gershwin) – 5:32 #"Oh, Lady Be Good oncept 2 (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:57 #"Blues in the Alley" (Basie) – 6:44 #" As Long as I Live" ( Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:33 #"Song of the Islands" (Charles E. King) – 4:51 #"Royal Gardens Blues" ( Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams) – 4:28 #"(Un) Easy Does It" ( Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 4:08 #"O.P." (Basie) – 4:48

Personnel

* Count Basie -

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* Ray Brown -

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

* Louie Bellson -

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References

{{Authority control 1974 albums Count Basie albums Pablo Records albums Albums produced by Norman Granz