It's a Quiet Thing

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It's a Quiet Thing
Studio album by
Morgana King
Released1965
Recorded1965
GenreJazz
LabelReprise RS 6192[1]
Morgana King chronology
With a Taste of Honey
(1965) 		It's a Quiet Thing
(1965) 		Morgana King
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It's a Quiet Thing is a 1965 album by Morgana King with arrangements by Torrie Zito.[2]

The AllMusic Review by Eugene Chadbourne felt that King's "brilliant presence" on the album's title track was "impossible to live up to" over the ten songs on the album. He praised Zito's "sophisticated and classy, indeed outright lush arrangements" but compared King's unique vocal style of "enunciation and pyrotechnics" to both Tiny Tim and Yma Sumac. Chadbourne concluded that "Any tendency to dismiss King outright would be a mistake, however. Like other somewhat eccentric vocalists, such as Al Hibbler and Betty Carter, aspects that seem inexplicable or tasteless at first listening are guaranteed to grow on the listener".[2]

The initial

Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Useless Landscape" and "Dindi" as "priceless".[3]

It's a Quiet Thing was also reviewed in Sounds and Fury, Stereo Review and American Record Guide.[4][5][6]

The song It's A Quiet Thing originates from the first musical of Kander and Ebb - Flora the Red Menace which premiered on Broadway in 1965.[7]

Track listing

  1. "It's a Quiet Thing" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 3:02
  2. "
    Aloysio de Oliveira
    ) – 4:00
  3. "
    Useless Landscape
    " (Gilbert, Jobim, de Oliveira) – 3:12
  4. "
    Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel
    ) – 2:58
  5. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:35
  6. "
    Mountain High, Valley Low" (Bernie Hanighen, Raymond Scott
    ) – 2:09
  7. "
    Vinícius de Moraes
    ) – 03:14
  8. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 02:38
  9. "Deep Song" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) – 03:38
  10. "If You Should Leave Me (E Se Domani)" (Arthur Altman, Giorgio Calabrese, Al Stillman) – 03:01

Personnel

References

  1. ^ – It's a Quiet Thing
  2. ^
    AllMusic
  3. ISSN 0006-2510
    .
  4. ^ Sounds and Fury. Castell Publishing Company. 1966.
  5. ^ Stereo Review. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. 1966. p. 88.
  6. ^ American record guide. 1966.
  7. ^ "John Kander and Fred Ebb | The Stars | Broadway: The American Musical | PBS". Broadway: The American Musical. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
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