''Alley Cat'' is the debut album by Danish
pianist
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Bent Fabric. The album features the
Grammy Award
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-winning single "
Alley Cat", and was a charting album in 1962-63.
[(22 December 1962)]
Top LPs
''Billboard'' (listed as No. 14 mono album in this issue, 9 weeks on chart)[(6 April 1963)]
Top LPs
''Billboard'' (listing mono album as #36, with 24 straight weeks on chart, and stereo version at #13, with 16 straight weeks on chart)
The title song is used as a recurring gag on the short-lived 1990 TV show ''
Get a Life''.
The cover was designed by Haig Adishian, and was a ''Billboard'' Album Cover of the Week in October 1962.
Track listing
# "Alley Cat" (2:24)
# "
Across the Alley from the Alamo" (2:11)
# "
You Made Me Love You" (3:03)
# "Trudie" (1:56)
# "Markin' Time" (1:38)
# "In the Arms of My Love" (2:28)
# "Delilah" (2:15)
# "Catsanova Walk" (1:58)
# "Symphony" (2:19)
# "Early Morning In
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
" (2:22)
# "Comme Ci, Comme Ca" (2:06)
#"
Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (2:50)
References
External links
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Atco Records albums
Swing albums
1962 debut albums
Bent Fabric albums
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