Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "Nothing all that memorable occurs, but the singer is in strong voice, and his fans will want to pick up this".[2]

1. "Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues" (Al Byron, Woody Harris) - 2:55
2. "Everytime I Think About You" (Claude Demetrius) - 2:39
3. "I Never Will Marry" (Traditional) - 2:48
4. "I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt) - 3:27
5. "Teardrops from My Eyes" (Rudy Toombs) - 2:59
6. "And the Angels Sing" (Ziggy Elman, Johnny Mercer) - 2:55
7. "Who's Sorry Now?" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder) - 3:37
8. "I'm Comin Down With the Blues" (Don Covay) - 2:23
9. "You're Next" (Sid Tepper) - 2:16
10. "Happy Blues" (Tony Bruno) - 2:14
11. "That's Why I'm Leaving" (Lockie Edwards, Jr.) - 2:32
12. "One Last Chance" (Jimmy Witherspoon) - 3:12

• Jimmy Witherspoon - vocals
• Benny Bailey, Bertil Lövgren, Bengt-Arne Wallin - trumpet
• Åke Persson, Eje Thelin - trombone
• Karl Nystrom, Bengt Olesson - French horn
• Runo Erickson - euphonium
• Lars Sloglund - oboe, English horn
• Arne Domnerus - alto saxophone, clarinet
• Bjarne Nerem - tenor saxophone
• Rune Falk - baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Tosten Wennberg - saxophones, clarinet
• Roman Dylag - bass
• Egil Johansen - drums
• Benny Golson - arranger