{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Take a Number | type = album | artist = Mavis Rivers | cover = Take a Number Mavis.jpeg | alt = | released = 1959 | recorded = 1959 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Capitol – T1210 | producer = Andy Wiswell | chronology = Mavis Rivers | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Hooray for Love | next_year = 1960 }} '''''Take a Number''''' is the debut album by New Zealand and Polynesian jazz singer Mavis Rivers. It was arranged by Nelson Riddle and released in 1959.<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=take-a-number-hooray-for-love-mw0000476348|label=Take a Number}}</ref><ref name="Discogs">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Mavis-Rivers-Take-A-Number/release/4151817|title=Mavis Rivers – Take a Number at Discogs |publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=26 January 2017}}</ref>

==Reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} The initial ''Billboard'' magazine review from May 18, 1959 commented that "Polynesian canary Mavis Rivers lends her expressive jazz-flavored thrushing style to a group of "number" selections...Spinnable wax".<ref name="Inc.1959">{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |title=Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36 |date=18 May 1959 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=36 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>

==Track listing== # "One Minute to One" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:32 # "Two Loves Have I" – 4:03 # "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:12 # "Four A.M." (L. Coleman) – 3:02 # "Five O'Clock Whistle" (Kim Gannon, Gene Irwin, Josef Myrow) – 2:06 # "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga" (James V. Monaco) – 2:52 # "Seven-League Boots" – 2:46 # "Dinner at Eight" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:31 # "About a Quarter to Nine" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 3:05 # "One the Ten O' Ten" (J. Fred Coots) – 2:20 # "At the Eleventh Hour" – 3:01 # "It's Twelve O'Clock" (Coots) – 3:34

==Personnel== *Mavis Rivers – vocals *Nelson Riddle – arranger *Andy Wiswell – producer

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Category:1959 debut albums Category:Albums arranged by Nelson Riddle Category:Capitol Records albums Category:Mavis Rivers albums Category:1950s concept albums