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- The Best Of Chet Baker Sings
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Chet Baker
Released 1989

Let's Get Lost
03:45
4,248 plays

But Not For Me
03:03
3,347 plays

My Funny Valentine
02:20
3,343 plays

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songs

- 1
- The Thrill Is Gone
- 02:51
- 2,933 plays

- 2
- But Not For Me
- 03:03
- 3,347 plays

- 3
- Time After Time
- 02:46
- 2,497 plays

- 4
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- 02:59
- 2,473 plays

- 5
- There Will Never Be Another You
- 02:59
- 2,416 plays

- 6
- Look For The Silver Lining
- 02:40
- 2,200 plays

- 7
- My Funny Valentine
- 02:20
- 3,343 plays

- 8
- I Fall In Love Too Easily
- 03:20
- 2,350 plays

- 9
- Daybreak
- 02:43
- 2,076 plays

- 10
- Just Friends
- 02:44
- 2,115 plays

- 11
- I Remember You
- 03:16
- 2,356 plays

- 12
- Let's Get Lost
- 03:45
- 4,248 plays

- 13
- Long Ago And Far Away
- 03:59
- 2,006 plays

- 14
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- 04:53
- 2,132 plays

- 15
- That Old Feeling
- 03:02
- 1,820 plays

- 16
- It's Always You
- 03:35
- 1,826 plays

- 17
- I've Never Been In Love Before
- 04:28
- 1,695 plays

- 18
- My Buddy
- 03:19
- 1,668 plays

- 19
- Like Someone In Love
- 02:26
- 1,748 plays

- 20
- My Ideal
- 04:20
- 1,698 plays

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album review

To much of the pop (as opposed to the jazz) audience, Chet Baker was known not as an able cool jazz trumpeter, but as a romantic balladeer. The two classifications were not mutually exclusive; Baker's vocal numbers would also feature his trumpet playing, as well as fine instrumental support from West Coast cool jazzers. For those who prefer the vocal side of the Baker canon, this is an excellent compilation of his best vintage material in that mode. The 20 tracks draw from sessions covering the era when he was generally conceded to be at his vocal peak (1953-1956), and are dominated by standards from the likes of Rodgers & Hart, Carmichael, Gershwin, and Kern. Baker's singing was white and naïve in the best senses, with a quavering, uncertain earnestness that embodied a certain (safe) strain of mid-'50s bohemianism. That's the Baker heard on this collection, which contains some his most famous interpretations, including "My Funny Valentine," "Time After Time," "There Will Never Be Another You," and "Let's Get Lost." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide