Bobby Wellins

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About the artist

Bobby (Robert Coull) Wellins was a jazz tenor saxophonist. He was born in Glasgow on 24 January 1936 and died on 27 October 2016. He came from a musical family and later studied music at college, originally playing alto sax. After college he played in dance bands and made his first recording in 1956 with Buddy Featherstonhaugh's quintet. In the early 1960s Wellins worked with the Tony Crombie Band, Tubby Hayes, and most notably began a long association with the pianist Stan Tracey. He recorded the landmark Under Milk Wood with Tracey in 1965.

Top songs

  1. You Don't Know What Love Is
  2. Fascinating Rhythm
  3. I'm A Fool To Want You
  4. For Heaven's Sake
  5. Monk's Mood
  6. You've Changed
  7. It's Easy To Remember
  8. Violets For Your Furs
  9. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  10. I Get Along Without You Very Well
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  1. Glad To Be Unhappy
  2. For All We Know
  3. But Beautiful
  4. The Odd Couple
  5. The End Of A Love Affair
  6. I'll Be Around
  7. Raunchy
  8. Smouldering
  9. Angel Of The North
  10. Lover
  11. Dunna Runner
  12. Cucb
  13. The Promised Land
  14. It Never Entered My Mind
  15. The Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  16. Willow Weep for Me
  17. Be My Love
  18. Love For Sale
  19. Sandu
  20. Nomad - feat. Claire Martin
  21. This I Dig Of You
  22. Just Like Old Times
  23. Time Gentlemen, Please
  24. Cabin In The Sky
  25. Little Rootie Tootie
  26. This Here
  27. Quando Quando Quando
  28. Nomad
  29. Dream Dancing
  30. Nomad (feat. Claire Martin)
  31. Remember Me
  32. The Shadow of Your Smile
  33. My Shining Hour
  34. St. Louis Blues
  35. Remember Me - feat. Claire Martin
  36. Silent Love (feat. Claire Martin)
  37. Gathering
  38. Dizzy's Blues
  39. Silent Love - feat. Claire Martin
  40. March
  41. Remember Me (feat. Claire Martin)
  42. When The Sun Comes Out
  43. Battle
  44. I'm Wishing
  45. Silent Love
  46. In Walked Bud
  47. Moonray
  48. San Francisco
  49. My Funny Valentine
  50. I Wanna Be Around
  51. The Good Life
  52. Angel Eyes
  53. Quiet Nights
  54. Taking A Chance On Love
  55. You Must Believe In Spring
  56. I’m Wishing
  57. Dreams are Free
  58. The Best Is Yet To Come
  59. Stranger In Paradise
  60. When Joanna Loved Me
  61. Birds Of Brazil: I
  62. Spring Is Here (feat. Bobby Wellins, Clark Tracey Stan Tracey)
  63. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
  64. Favela (O Morro Nao Tem Vez)
  65. Caravan
  66. Old Folks
  67. Rhythm-a-ning
  68. Aftermath
  69. Birds Of Brazil: II
  70. Birds Of Brazil: III
  71. Festival Blues
  72. Epilogue
  73. My Old Flame
  74. How Deep Is The Ocean
  75. When You Wish Upon A Star
  76. At Long Last Love (feat. Bobby Wellins, Clark Tracey Stan Tracey)
  77. Something's Gotta Give (feat. Bobby Wellins, Clark Tracey Stan Tracey)
  78. Comme d'Habitude
  79. Birds of Brazil (1st Movement)
  80. - When You Wish Upon A Star
  81. Birds of Brazil (2nd movement)
  82. - Festival Blues
  83. - Dizzy's Blues
  84. Jubilation
  85. - Monk's Mood
  86. - When The Sun Comes Out
  87. Mad About The Boy
  88. - Fascinating Rythmn
  89. What's Happening
  90. - Mad About The Boy

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