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Blue Starr
Studio album by
Released1957
GenrePop
LabelRCA Victor
Kay Starr chronology
The One, The Only Kay Starr
(1956)
Blue Starr
(1957)
Rockin' with Kay
(1958)

Blue Starr is a studio album by Kay Starr. It was released in 1957 by RCA Victor (catalog no. LPM-1549). It was her second album for RCA Victor. Hal Stanley was the producer.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Upon its release, Billboard magazine wrote: "Fans of the thrush from way back will find what they want here -- a pack of somewhat old-timey 'vocal Dixieland.' ... Tunes are all torchers, but tempi are varied."[3]

AllMusic gave the album a rating of three stars.[2] Reviewer William Ruhlmann wrote that the album "had the kind of jazz and blues playing that characterized Starr at her best, and she remained an expressive vocalist whose style was a bit too hot for the more polite supper clubs."[2]

Track listing

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Side A

  1. "It's A Old Lonesome Town (When You're Not Around)" (Harry Tobias / Charles Kisco)
  2. "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do)"
  3. "The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Good-Bye)" (Basil Adlam / Billy Rose)
  4. "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"
  5. "I Really Don't Want to Know"

Side B

  1. "Blue Starr" (Hal Stanley / Irving Taylor)
  2. "Wedding Bells" (Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal / Willie Raskin)
  3. "It's Funny to Everyone but Me" (Jack Lawrence)
  4. "Little White Lies"
  5. "Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain) (Mort Dixon / Harry M. Woods)
  6. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie / Jerry Livingston / Mack David)

References

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  1. ^ "Kay Starr - Blue Starr". Discogs. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Rockin' with Kay". AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  3. ^ "Reviews and Ratings New Popular Albums". The Billboard. November 4, 1957. p. 33.