Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks

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Indispensable:
The Best of Michael Franks
File:Michael Franks Indispensable CD.jpg
Compilation album by Michael Franks
Released 30 June 1988
Recorded 1976 – 1987
Genre Jazz
Vocal jazz
Smooth jazz
Length 68:58
Language English
Label Warner Bros.
Michael Franks chronology
The Camera Never Lies
(1987)The Camera Never Lies1987		 Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks
(1988)		 Blue Pacific
(1990)Blue Pacific1990

Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks released in 1988 with Warner Bros..[1] It is Franks' twelfth album, and his first of four compilation releases with the label.

The compilation contains a selection of tracks spanning eleven years, from The Art of Tea in 1976, to The Camera Never Lies in 1987.[2]

Franks has since released seven more studio albums, rendering this compilation a fairly representative sample of his earlier work; of note his collaborations with the Tommy LiPuma and Al Schmitt production team, and later with Rob Mounsey.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Eggplant" (from The Art of Tea, 1976) Franks 3:38
2. "Monkey See—Monkey Do" (from The Art of Tea, 1976) Franks 3:35
3. "The Lady Wants To Know" (from Sleeping Gypsy, 1977) Franks 4:45
4. "Down In Brazil" (from Sleeping Gypsy, 1977) Franks 4:35
5. "Don't Be Blue" (from Sleeping Gypsy, 1977) Franks, Guerin 3:30
6. "When The Cookie Jar Is Empty" (from Burchfield Nines, 1978) Franks 5:12
7. "A Robin Song" (from Burchfield Nines, 1978) Franks 3:48
8. "Jardin Botanico" (from Tiger in the Rain, 1979) Franks 3:33
9. "When It's Over" (from Tiger in the Rain, 1979) Franks 3:11
10. "Baseball" (from One Bad Habit, 1980) Franks 3:50
11. "Jealousy" (from Objects of Desire, 1982) Franks 3:39
12. "No Deposit Love" (from Objects of Desire, 1982) Franks 5:12
13. "Rainy Night In Tokyo" (from Passionfruit, 1983) Franks 4:43
14. "Never Satisfied" (from Passionfruit, 1983) Franks 3:56
15. "Read My Lips" (from Skin Dive, 1985) Franks 3:41
16. "Face To Face" (from The Camera Never Lies, 1987) Franks 4:27
17. "The Camera Never Lies" (from The Camera Never Lies, 1987) Franks 3:42

References

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  2. ↑ Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks – Michael Franks at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-02-23.

Bibliography

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