title: Blossom Dearie (album)
text: # Blossom Dearie (album)
  
  Professional ratings :
  
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  | The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
  
  Blossom Dearie is an album by Blossom Dearie that was recorded in 1956 and released in 1957. It was her first recording for Verve.
  
  ## Background
  
  Dearie recorded for the Barclay label in 1955 and 1956. This eponymous album was her next recording as a leader.
  
  ## Reception
  
  In a positive retrospective review written for the CD release, AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow praises Dearie's voice, writing its "sincerity and sense of swing wins one over after a few songs" and her "piano playing is first class".
  
  In 2019, record club Vinyl Me, Please. reissued the album on vinyl. This was the first time the album was re-issued onto vinyl in the United States since its release.
  
  ## Track listings
  
  * "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:11
  * "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 2:45
  * "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:27
  * "Comment allez-vous" (Murray Grand) – 2:10
  * "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:25
  * "Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:59
  * "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) (sung in French) – 3:09
  * "Tout doucement" (Emile Jean Mercadier, Rene Albert Clausier) – 2:21
  * "You for Me" (Bob Haymes) – 2:13
  * "Now at Last" (Haymes) – 3:20
  * "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:05
  * "Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:19
  * "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:44
  * "A Fine Spring Morning" (Haymes) – 3:04
  
  CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release
  
  * "They Say It's Spring" (Marty Clark, Haymes) – 3:22
  * "Johnny One Note" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:10
  * "Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) – 3:09
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals
  * Herb Ellis – guitar
  * Ray Brown – double bass
  * Jo Jones – drums
  