The Very Best of The Ink Spots

~ Release by The Ink Spots (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1If I Didn't Care
recording of:
If I Didn’t Care (on 1939-01-12)
lyricist and composer:
Jack Lawrence (US songwriter)
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd. and Range Road Music Inc.
3.353:07
2I'll Never Smile Again
recording of:
I’ll Never Smile Again (on 1940-08-08)
lyricist and composer:
Ruth Lowe
publisher:
MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated), MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group), MCA, Inc. (this was the US media company that became Universal Studios, Inc. in Dec 1996), Pickwick Music (publisher), Universal Music Corp. (USA, affiliated with ASCAP) and Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US)
sub-publisher:
シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント and ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
33:28
3Java Jive
cover recording of:
Java Jive (on 1940-07-16)
lyricist:
Milton Drake (in 1940)
composer:
Ben Oakland (in 1940)
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd.
43:03
4Stop Pretending
2:21
5Maybe
recording of:
Maybe (on 1940-06-11)
writer:
Allan Flynn and Frank Madden (US songwriter)
publisher:
Robbins (publisher)
3.653:09
6Your Feet's Too Big
2:50
7I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
4.353:00
8When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
recording of:
When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (on 1940-05-13)
lyricist:
Leon René
composer:
Leon René (in 1940)
publisher:
M. Witmark & Sons
42:58
9That Cat Is High
2:57
10Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)
vocals:
The Ink Spots
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Geffen Records (in 1940)
recording of:
Whispering Grass (on 1940-06-11)
writer:
Doris Fisher and Fred Fisher
publisher:
Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd. and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS-affiliated)
2:45
11Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
recording of:
Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat (on 1941-10-13)
writer:
Leon René, Otis René and Emerson C. Scott
33:21
12Who Wouldn't Love You
2:17
13Christopher Columbus
3:07
14Do I Worry?
recording of:
Do I Worry? (1940s song) (on 1940-08-08)
writer:
Stanley Cowan (composer, songwriter) and Bobby Worth (American songwriter)
publisher:
Melody Lane Publications Inc.
32:43
15My Prayer
recording of:
My Prayer (on 1939-09-18)
lyricist:
Jimmy Kennedy (Irish songwriter)
composer:
Georges Boulanger (Romani-Romanian violinist, conductor, composer)
publisher:
Peter Maurice Music, Skidmore Music Co., Inc., イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
is based on:
Avant de mourir
3.53:10
16Slap That Bass
2:25
17Don't Get Around Much Anymore
cover recording of:
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (on 1942-07-28)
lyricist:
Bob Russell (US songwriter/lyricist Sidney Keith “Bob” Russell) (in 1942)
composer:
Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1940)
publisher:
EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP), Harrison Music Corp., Sony/ATV Harmony, フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部 and ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company - do not use as release label)
version of:
Never No Lament
3:03
18I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
recording of:
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You (on 1939-10-11)
lyricist:
Ned Washington
composer:
George Bassman
publisher:
Catharine Hinen Music, EMI Mills Music Inc. (ASCAP-affiliated), Mills Music, Inc., ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company - do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
2:50
19We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
recording of:
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
writer:
Nelson Cogane (in 1939), Sammy Mysels (in 1939) and Dick Robertson (US jazz vocalist, 1920s-1940s) (in 1939)
composer:
Nelson Cogane and Sammy Mysels
publisher:
Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) and Penn Music Co.
43:17
20Bless You
recording of:
Bless You (For Being an Angel) (1939 song) (on 1939-10-11)
writer:
Don Baker (Dert) and Eddie Lane (American songwriter)
32:52