The In Crowd (Ramsey Lewis album)

The In Crowd
Live album by Ramsey Lewis Trio
Released	July 1965
Recorded	May 13 to 15, 1965
Venue	Bohemian Caverns, Washington D.C.
Genre	Jazz
Length	32:09
Label	Argo LP 757
Producer	Esmond 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]

Background

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.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
Record Mirror	[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic praised the album. As he proclaimed "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".[3]

Accolades

The In Crowd won a Grammy in 1966 for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by an Individual or Group. As well the album's title track single was Grammy nominated for Record of the Year. In 2009 this said song was eventually inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[7][8]

Track listing

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

Personnel

• Ramsey Lewis – piano
• Eldee Young – bass, cello
• Redd Holt – drums

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of the 1960s

References

1. Ramsey Lewis: The In Crowd. Cadet Records. 1965.
2. AllMusic Awards entry, accessed October 11, 2012
3. G. Nastos, Michael. "Ramsey Lewis: The In Crowd". allmusic.com. AllMusic.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 887. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. 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.
6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 424.
7. "Ramsey Lewis". grammy.com. The Recording Academy.
8. "Ramsey Lewis Plays Songs from "The In Crowd"". jazzfoundation.org. Jazz Foundation of America. August 29, 2020.