{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = My Kind of Songs | type = studio | artist = Ed Ames | cover = My Kind of Songs by Ed Ames LP cover.png | released = {{start date|1965|06}} | studio = RCA's Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California | genre = Traditional pop<ref name="Billboard Review" /> | label = RCA Victor | length = 36:53 | producer = Jim Foglesong | prev_title = The Ed Ames Album | prev_year = 1964 | next_title = It's a Man's World | next_year = 1966 | misc = }} '''''My Kind of Songs''''' is a studio album by American singer and actor Ed Ames. It was released in June 1965 via RCA Victor and contained 12 tracks. It was the third studio album of Ames' career, featuring interpretations of traditional pop standards and some songs from Broadway musicals. It also featured covers of popular recordings from several decades. Upon release, it received a positive review from ''Billboard'' magazine editors.

==Background, recording and content== Ed Ames had been on the RCA Victor label since his time with The Ames Brothers vocal group. He later found success with "Try To Remember" in late 1964, which marked his first chart entry.<ref name="Pop Songs" /> RCA issued thirty albums of Ames' recordings through 1972.<ref name="goldmine" /> Among them was ''My Kind of Songs''. The project was recorded during three sessions in RCA's Victor's Music Center of the World, located in Hollywood, California.<ref name="Liner Notes">{{cite journal |last1=Ames |first1=Ed |title=''My Kind of Songs'' (Disc Information) |journal=RCA Victor |date=June 1965 |id=LMP-3390 (Mono); LSP-3390 (Stereo)}}</ref> It was produced by Jim Foglesong, whom had been serving as Ames' record producer for several albums.<ref name="Liner Notes" /> Marty Manning is credited with the arrangements.<ref name="Liner Notes"/>

The album contained 12 tracks.<ref name="Liner Notes" /> Included were covers of "Softly, as I Leave You", "Waltz for Debby", "Maybe You'll Be There" and "I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You", "Inch Worm" and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)". These songs had previously been included in Broadway musicals or had been singles that appeared on America's ''Billboard'' pop music chart.<ref name="Liner Notes"/><ref name="Pop Songs">{{cite book |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |title=Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 |date=2000 |publisher=Record Research |location=Menomonee Falls, WI |page=various}}</ref> "A Married Man" was a new track, coming from the concurrently opened musical ''Baker Street''.<ref name="Liner Notes"/>

== Release and reception == ''My Kind of Songs'' was originally released by RCA Victor in June 1965. It was distributed as a vinyl LP, featuring six songs on "Side A" and six songs on "Side B". It was available in stereo and monaural sound.<ref name="goldmine">{{cite book |last=Kinslow |first=Chris |title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide |publisher=Penguin |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-68145-973-8 |page=1881 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&dq=ed+ames+love+of+the+common+people&pg=PA1881 |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref> It was Ames' third solo studio album.<ref name="Liner Notes"/> It is Ames' only album not to be re-released digitally.<ref name="Apple">{{cite web |title=Ed Ames |url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ed-ames/216255 |website=Apple Music |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>

The album received a positive review from ''Billboard'' magazine following its release. The publication called it a "well-chosen and balanced program of semi-standard and standard material interpreted by Ames' warm phrasing," stating, "Arrangements of Marty Manning and Ames' sensitive interpretations bring freshness to 'Maybe You'll Be There,' 'Inch Worm' and 'When the World Was Young.' They also highlighted Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish's "Forgotten Dreams" calling it a "standout".<ref name="Billboard Review">{{cite magazine |title=Album Reviews: Pop Picks |magazine=Billboard |date=June 12, 1965 |page=56 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1965/Billboard%201965-06-12-OCR-Page-0056.pdf#search=%22my%20kind%20of%20songs%20ed%20ames%22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204003821/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1965/Billboard%201965-06-12-OCR-Page-0056.pdf#search=%22my%20kind%20of%20songs%20ed%20ames%22 |archive-date=December 4, 2025 |access-date=May 31, 2026}}</ref>

==Track listing== {{track listing | headline = Side one | total_length = 16:39 | title1 = Maybe You'll Be There | writer1 = {{hlist|Rube Bloom|Sammy Gallop}} | length1 = 3:01

| title2 = Forgotten Dreams | writer2 = {{hlist|Leroy Anderson|Mitchell Parish}} | length2 = 2:45

| title3 = Let Me (Deixa) | writer3 = {{hlist|Baden Powell de Aquino|Norman Gimbel}} | length3 = 2:32

| title4 = Inch Worm | writer4 = Frank Loesser | length4 = 2:58

| title5 = Softly, as I Leave You | writer5 = {{hlist|Giorgio Calabrese|Antonio De Vita|Hal Shaper}} | length5 = 3:13

| title6 = Put On a Happy Face | writer6 = {{hlist|Charles Strouse|Lee Adams}} | length6 = 2:10 }}

{{track listing | headline = Side two | total_length = 20:14

| title1 = I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) | writer1 = Hank Williams | length1 = 2:53

| title2 = A Married Man | writer2 = {{hlist|Marian Grudeff|Raymond Jessel}} | length2 = 3:45

| title3 = Waltz for Debby | writer3 = {{hlist|Bill Evans|Gene Lees}} | length3 = 3:05

| title4 = I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You | writer4 = {{hlist|George Bassman|Ned Washington}} | length4 = 2:50

| title5 = One Hand, One Heart | writer5 = {{hlist|Leonard Bernstein|Stephen Sondheim}} | length5 = 2:16

| title6 = (Ah, The Apple Trees) When the World Was Young | writer6 = {{hlist|Johnny Mercer|Philippe-Gérard}} | length6 = 5:25 }}

== Personnel == All credits are adapted from the liner notes of ''My Kind of Songs''.<ref name="Liner Notes"/>

* Marty Manning – arranger, conductor * Dave Hassinger – recording engineer * Harvey Siders – liner notes * Jim Foglesong – producer * Ed Ames – vocals

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