I Can't Help It is a 1992 Betty Carter compilation album. It contains all of the tracks from her albums Out There with Betty Carter (Peacock Records, 1958) and The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (ABC-Paramount Records, 1960). The same combination of tracks had previously been released as a double LP by ABC Records under the title What a Little Moonlight Can Do.
The title track, "I Can't Help It", was the first of Carter's own compositions that she recorded.
Track listing "I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:44 "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards) – 2:07 "Babe's Blues" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 2:49 "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:30 "But Beautiful" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:58 "All I Got" (David Cole) – 2:15 "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" (Walter Donaldson) – 1:45 "Foul Play" (Norman Mapp) – 2:21 "On the Isle of May" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:02 "Make It Last" (Dick Haymes, Bill Paxton) – 4:30 "The Bluebird of Happiness" (Sandor Harmati, Edward Heyman) – 1:30 "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:37 "For You" (Burke, Dubin) – 2:20 "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:04 "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24 "At Sundown" (Donaldson) – 2:42 "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:04 "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:22 "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:55 "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Mapp) – 1:56 "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:08 "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:21 "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:47 "Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:00
Personnel Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 1–6): Betty Carter – vocals Ray Copeland – trumpet, arranger Melba Liston – trombone, arranger Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet Wynton Kelly – piano Peck Morrison – double bass Specs Wright – drums
Recorded February 1958, in New York City, New York, USA (tracks 7–12): Betty Carter – vocals Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland – trumpets Melba Liston – trombone Gigi Gryce, Jimmy Powell – alto saxophones Benny Golson – tenor saxophone Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone Wynton Kelly – piano Sam Jones – double bass Arrangements by Copeland, Liston, Gryce, Golson & Tommy Bryce
Recorded August 18, 29, and 30, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA (tracks 13–24): Betty Carter – vocals Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Weiss
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