Alley Cat (album)

Alley Cat
Studio album by
Released1962
GenreSwing
LabelATCO Records
Bent Fabric chronology
Alley Cat
(1962)
The Happy Puppy
(1962)
Singles from Alley Cat
  1. "Alley Cat"
    Released: May 1962

Alley Cat is the debut album by Danish pianist Bent Fabric. The album features the Grammy Award-winning single "Alley Cat", and was a charting album in 1962-63.[1][2]

The title song is used as a recurring gag on the short-lived 1990 TV show Get a Life.

The cover was designed by Haig Adishian, and was a Billboard Album Cover of the Week in October 1962.[3]

  1. ^ (22 December 1962). Top LPs, Billboard (listed as No. 14 mono album in this issue, 9 weeks on chart)
  2. ^ (6 April 1963). Top LPs, Billboard (listing mono album as #36, with 24 straight weeks on chart, and stereo version at #13, with 16 straight weeks on chart)
  3. ^ Album Cover of the Weekwork=Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 6 October 1962. pp. 31–. ISSN 0006-2510.