# Take a Number

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Take a Number
| type       = album
| artist     = [Mavis Rivers](/source/Mavis_Rivers)
| cover      = Take a Number Mavis.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = 1959
| recorded   = 1959
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
| length     =
| label      = [Capitol](/source/Capitol_Records) – T1210
| producer   = [Andy Wiswell](/source/Andy_Wiswell)
| chronology = [Mavis Rivers](/source/Mavis_Rivers)
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [Hooray for Love](/source/Hooray_for_Love_(album))
| next_year  = 1960
}}
'''''Take a Number''''' is the debut album by New Zealand and Polynesian jazz singer [Mavis Rivers](/source/Mavis_Rivers). It was arranged by [Nelson Riddle](/source/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](/source/Allmusic)
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
}}
The initial [''Billboard'' magazine](/source/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](/source/J._Fred_Coots), [Sam M. Lewis](/source/Sam_M._Lewis)) – 2:32
# "Two Loves Have I" – 4:03
# "[Three Coins in the Fountain](/source/Three_Coins_in_the_Fountain_(song))" ([Sammy Cahn](/source/Sammy_Cahn), [Jule Styne](/source/Jule_Styne)) – 3:12
# "Four A.M." ([L. Coleman](/source/L._Coleman)) – 3:02
# "Five O'Clock Whistle" ([Kim Gannon](/source/Kim_Gannon), [Gene Irwin](/source/Gene_Irwin), [Josef Myrow](/source/Josef_Myrow)) – 2:06
# "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga" ([James V. Monaco](/source/James_V._Monaco)) – 2:52
# "Seven-League Boots" – 2:46
# "Dinner at Eight" ([Dorothy Fields](/source/Dorothy_Fields), [Jimmy McHugh](/source/Jimmy_McHugh)) – 3:31  
# "About a Quarter to Nine" ([Al Dubin](/source/Al_Dubin), [Harry Warren](/source/Harry_Warren)) – 3:05
# "One the Ten O' Ten" ([J. Fred Coots](/source/J._Fred_Coots)) – 2:20
# "At the Eleventh Hour" – 3:01
# "It's Twelve O'Clock" (Coots) – 3:34

==Personnel==
*[Mavis Rivers](/source/Mavis_Rivers) – vocals
*[Nelson Riddle](/source/Nelson_Riddle) – [arranger](/source/Arrangements)
*[Andy Wiswell](/source/Andy_Wiswell) – producer

==References==
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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

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