I Can’t Help It (album)

I Can't Help It is a 1992 Betty Carter compilation album. It contains all the tracks from her albums Out There with Betty Carter (Peacock Records, 1958) and The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (ABC-Paramount Records, 1960). The same combination of tracks had previously been released as a double LP by ABC Records under the title What a Little Moonlight Can Do.

The title track, "I Can't Help It," was the first of Carter's own compositions that she recorded.

Track listing

 * 1) "I Can't Help It" (Betty Carter) – 2:44
 * 2) "By the Bend of the River" (Clara Edwards) – 2:07
 * 3) "Babe's Blues" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 2:49
 * 4) "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:30
 * 5) "But Beautiful" (Sonny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:58
 * 6) "All I Got" (David Cole) – 2:15
 * 7) "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" (Walter Donaldson) – 1:45
 * 8) "Foul Play" (Norman Mapp) – 2:21
 * 9) "On the Isle of May" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) – 2:02
 * 10) "Make It Last" (Dick Haymes, Bill Paxton) – 4:30
 * 11) "The Bluebird of Happiness" (Sandor Harmati, Edward Heyman) – 1:30
 * 12) "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:37
 * 13) "For You" (Burke, Dubin) – 2:20
 * 14) "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 2:04
 * 15) "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
 * 16) "At Sundown" (Donaldson) – 2:42
 * 17) "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:04
 * 18) "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler) – 2:22
 * 19) "On the Alamo" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 1:55
 * 20) "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' But Soul)" (Mapp) – 1:56
 * 21) "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) – 3:08
 * 22) "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:21
 * 23) "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 2:47
 * 24) "Don't Weep for the Lady" (Darshan Singh) – 3:00

Personnel
Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 1–6):


 * Betty Carter – vocals
 * Ray Copeland – trumpet, arranger
 * Melba Liston – trombone, arranger
 * Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
 * Wynton Kelly – piano
 * Peck Morrison – bass
 * Specs Wright – drums

Recorded February 1958, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 7–12):

Arrangements by Copeland, Liston, Gryce, Golson & Tommy Bryce
 * Betty Carter – vocals
 * Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland – trumpets
 * Melba Liston – trombone
 * Gigi Gryce, Jimmy Powell – alto saxophones
 * Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
 * Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone
 * Wynton Kelly – piano
 * Sam Jones – bass

Recorded August 18, 29, & 30, 1960, New York City, New York, USA (tracks 13–24):
 * Betty Carter – vocals
 * Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Weiss