Everything I Need (Sings Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough) (1999)

About this title: Everything I Need is an album of hip music by two of America's hippest composers (and performers), Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough, recorded by a very hip singer, Carol Fredette, over three sessions in 1995. Devoting an entire album to one or two composers can be risky, especially if they aren't in the upper echelon of contributors to the Great American Songbook (i.e., the Gershwin Brothers, Richard Rodgers, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, etc.). But the selections on this disc are sufficiently witty, sardonic, clever, and occasionally world-weary, to keep the listener near the ... read more

Tracks:

1. I've Got Just About Everything [Dorough]
2. I Could Care Less [Frishberg/Dorough]
3. Wheelers and Dealers [Frishberg]
4. Let's Eat Home [Frishberg]
5. Listen Here [Frishberg]
6. Devil May Care [Dorough/Kirk]
7. Never in a Single Year [Dorough]
8. Wouldn't You (Woody `N You) [Dorough/Passman/Gil]
9. Nothing Like You [Landesman/Dorogh]
10. Love Came on Stealthy Fingers [Dorough]
11. Zanzibar [Frishberg]
12. Zoot Walks in (The Red Door) [Frishberg/Sims/Mull]
13. I Got to Get Me Some ZZZ [Frishberg]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.