Blossom Dearie (album)

This is Dearie's first American solo album. Already known for the group "Les Blue Stars" of France and their French version of "Lullaby of Birdland", Norman Granz personally invited her to record for Verve Records.

In a positive retrospective review written for the CD release, AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow praises Dearie's voice, writing its "sincerity and sense of swing wins one over after a few songs" and her "piano playing is first class".[1]

1. "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 2:11
2. "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 2:45
3. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:27
4. "Comment allez-vous" (Murray Grand) – 2:10
5. "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 3:25
6. "Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:59
7. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) (sung in French) – 3:09
8. "Tout doucement" (Emile Jean Mercadier, Rene Albert Clausier) – 2:21
9. "You for Me" (Bob Haymes) – 2:13
10. "Now at Last" (Haymes) – 3:20
11. "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:05
12. "Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:19
13. "I Won't Dance" (Dorothy Fields, Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:44
14. "A Fine Spring Morning" (Haymes) – 3:04

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release

1. "They Say It's Spring" (Marty Clark, Haymes) – 3:22
2. "Johnny One Note" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:10
3. "Blossom's Blues" (Blossom Dearie) – 3:09

• Blossom Dearie – piano, vocals
• Herb Ellis – guitar
• Ray Brown – double bass
• Jo Jones – drums