In April 1960, organist Jimmy Smith joined forces with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and recorded Back at the Chicken Shack for Blue Note. One of the tracks was When I Grow Too Old to Dream, by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg. The song was introduced in the film The Night Is Young (1935) and was given a gospel-soul shove on the 1963 albu…
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