Horn A-Plenty is a big band album by Al Hirt that was released in 1962 by RCA Victor. The album was arranged and conducted by Billy May and performed by a group of top Hollywood session musicians.[3]

Horn A-Plenty
Studio album by
Released1962
GenreJazz
LabelRCA Victor
ProducerSteve Sholes
Al Hirt chronology
At the Mardi Gras
(1962)
Horn A-Plenty
(1962)
Trumpet and Strings
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
New Record Mirror[2]

The album reached number twenty four on the Billboard 200 chart.[4]

Track listing edit

  1. "Holiday for Trumpet" (Mario Ruiz Armengol)
  2. "That Old Feeling" (Sammy Fain, Lew Brown)
  3. "Easy Street" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  4. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams)
  5. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson)
  6. "Margie" (Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, Benny Davis)
  7. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional)
  8. "Theme from Carnival" ("Love Makes the World Go 'Round") (Bob Merrill)
  9. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)
  10. "Rumpus" (Ann Ronell)
  11. "Memories of You" (Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake)
  12. "I'll Take Romance" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Ben Oakland)

Chart positions edit

Chart (1962) Peak
position
Billboard Top LPs 24

References edit

  1. ^ Horn A-Plenty at AllMusic
  2. ^ Jones, Peter (27 April 1963). "Horn A-Plenty" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 111. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  3. ^ Al Hirt, Horn A-Plenty Retrieved April 8, 2013
  4. ^ Al Hirt, Horn A-Plenty Chart Position Retrieved April 8, 2013