The In Crowd (Ramsey Lewis album)

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The In Crowd
Live album by
ReleasedJuly 1965
RecordedMay 13 to 15, 1965
VenueBohemian Caverns, Washington D.C.
GenreJazz
Length32:09
LabelArgo
LP 757
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Ramsey Lewis chronology
You Better Believe Me
(1964-65)
The In Crowd
(1965)
Hang On Ramsey!
(1965)

The In Crowd is a live album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, recorded in 1965 at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub in Washington, D.C., and released on the Argo label.[1]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]
Record Mirror[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

The album provided Lewis with his biggest hit, reaching the top position on the Billboard R&B Chart and No. 2 on their top 200 albums chart in 1965, and the title track single "The 'In' Crowd" reached No. 2 on the R&B Chart and No. 5 on the Hot 100 singles chart in the same year.[6] The album also received a Grammy Award in 1966 for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by an Individual or Group, and the title track single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009.[7]

AllMusic stated that "this is the moment where Lewis shined the brightest, the 'in crowd' at the club was verbally into it, and the time for this music was right".[2]

Track listing[edit]

  1. "The 'In' Crowd" (Billy Page) - 5:50
  2. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) - 4:06
  3. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) - 5:02
  4. "You Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby" (Gale Garnett, Ray Rivers) - 3:01
  5. "Spartacus (Love Theme from)" (Alex North) - 7:17
  6. "Felicidade (Happiness)" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes) - 3:29
  7. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 4:50

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Argo Records discography accessed October 11, 2012
  2. ^ a b Nastos, M. G. AllMusic Review accessed October 11, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 887. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (23 October 1965). "The Ramsey Lewis Trio: The In Crowd" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 241. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  5. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 424.
  6. ^ AllMusic Awards entry, accessed October 11, 2012
  7. ^ "Grammy Hall Of Fame". Grammy.org. Archived from the original on 2013-03-12. Retrieved September 7, 2022.[title missing]