Love Lost is a studio album, released on June 11, 1959,[1] by jazz vocal and instrumental group The Four Freshmen. Released at the height of their fame, the album is now considered a "vintage" recording.[2] In the same year, The Four Freshmen won both the Metronome and Playboy polls as top jazz vocal group.[3]

Love Lost
Studio album by
Released1959
Recorded1959
GenreVocal jazz
LabelCapitol
The Four Freshmen chronology
The Four Freshmen And Five Guitars
(1959)
Love Lost
(1959)
Voices and Brass
(1960)

The album was reissued in 1998 on a double CD with Voices in Love.[4]

Track listing

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  1. “Love Lost” (Bob Flanigan, Don Barbour, Ross Barbour, Ken Albers)
  2. Spring Is Here” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  3. “I'm a Fool to Want You” (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf)
  4. I Should Care” (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn)
  5. “I Could Have Told You” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Carl Sigman)
  6. “If I Ever Love Again” (Russ Carlyle, Richard Reynolds)
  7. The Gal That Got Away” (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
  8. When Your Lover Has Gone” (Einar Aaron Swan)
  9. “I Wish I Didn't Love You So” (Frank Loesser)
  10. “I Wish I Knew” (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
  11. I'll Never Smile Again” (Ruth Lowe)
  12. Little Girl Blue” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)

Personnel

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Vocal arrangements Dick Reynolds and Ken Albers
Music arranged by Dick Reynolds

Notes

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  1. ^ allmusic on "Love Lost"
  2. ^ Carr, p. 268.
  3. ^ Feather, p. 218.
  4. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "The Four Freshmen: Voices in Love/Love Lost". AllMusic. Retrieved May 2, 2020.

References

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  • Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; and Priestley, Brian. The Rough Guide to Jazz: 3rd Edition. London: Rough Guides, 2004.
  • Feather, Leonard. The Encyclopedia of Jazz. New York: Horizon Press, 1960.
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