That's Just the Way I Want to Be

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That's Just the Way I Want to Be
That's Just the Way I Want to Be cover
Studio album by Blossom Dearie
Released 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Jazz
Label Fontana
Producer Pete King for Ronnie Scott Directions Ltd.
Professional reviews

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Blossom Dearie chronology
Soon It's Gonna Rain
(1967)		 That's Just the Way I Want to Be
(1970)		 Blossom Dearie Sings
(1974)

That's Just the Way I Want to Be is a 1970 (see 1970 in music) album by Blossom Dearie. It is noteworthy among her recordings in that, for the first time, the focus is on Dearie as a songwriter, with Dearie cowritng nine of the album's 12 tracks). She took the opportunity to pay tribute to some of her well-known contemporaries: John Lennon (the object of her praise in "Hey John"), Georgie Fame and Dusty Springfield.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "That's Just the Way I Want to Be" - 3:48
  2. "Long Daddy Green" (Blossom Dearie, Dave Frishberg) - 3:23
  3. "Sweet Surprise" - 3:18
  4. "Hey John" - 3:31
  5. "Sweet Georgie Fame" (Dearie, Sandra Harris) - 3:24
  6. "Both Sides Now" (Joni Mitchell) - 3.19
  7. "Dusty Springfield" (Dearie, Jim Council, Norma Tenega) - 1.55
  8. "Will There Really Be a Morning" (John Wallowitc, Emily Dickinson) - 3.07
  9. "I Know the Moon" - 3:28
  10. "Inside a Silent Tear" (Dearie, Peter King) - 2:16
  11. "Yesterday When I Was Young" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) - 5:11
  12. "I Like London in the Rain" - 2:39

All songs by Blossom Dearie and Jim Council, except as indicated.

[edit] Personnel