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Nice Work If You Can Get It... - The Hi-Lo's
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Track Listing
  1. Birth of the Blues
  2. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
  3. Chinatown, My Chinatown
  4. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
  5. Too Young for the Blues
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  1. Birth of the Blues
  2. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
  3. Chinatown, My Chinatown
  4. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
  5. Too Young for the Blues
  6. You Took Advantage of Me
  7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  8. Long Ago (And Far Away)
  9. They Didn't Believe Me
  10. Rockin' Chair
  11. I Thought About You
  12. My Baby Just Cares for Me
  13. Skylark
  14. Button up Your Overcoat
  15. Shadow Waltz
  16. Jeepers Creepers
  17. Lulu's Back in Town
  18. Clap Yo' Hands
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This doesn't have anything from their most popular albums (made for Columbia in the late 1950s), drawing from LPs they cut for Starlite between 1954 and 1956 (as well as their 1953 debut EP for Trend). The Hi-Lo's had already hit their artistic stride in the mid-1950s, however, and this album is jammed with their energetic adaptations of standards like "Birth of the Blues," "Jeepers Creepers," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," and "My Baby Just Cares for Me." Although an influence on the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas, ...

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Nice Work If You Can Get It... 1996, Varese

UPC: 030206569421

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