Inside Betty Carter

Inside Betty Carter
Studio album by
Released1964
RecordedApril 1964 (reissue bonus tracks March 4 and May 26, 1965)
GenreVocal jazz
Length45:41 (reissue)
LabelUnited Artists
ProducerAlan Douglas
Betty Carter chronology
'Round Midnight
(1963)
Inside Betty Carter
(1964)
Betty Carter at the Village Vanguard
(1970)

Inside Betty Carter is a 1964 Betty Carter album. It contains the first recording of Carter's signature song, "Open the Door". Originally released on the United Artists label with eight tracks, it was reissued by Capitol Records in 1993 with seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1965 recording session that included Kenny Burrell on guitar.[1]

Carter said in 1979 that Inside Betty Carter was one of her two favorite albums out of the eleven she had recorded to date.[2]

  1. ^ Inside Betty Carter at AllMusic
  2. ^ Bauer, William R. Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 98.