Recording studio sessions took place January 23–25, 1963, at Columbia's Studio A in New York City with a budget of $18,000. Material was mostly chosen from Broadway standards, many of which were fairly obscure. "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" was originally performed by Dennis King in the 1938 production of I Married An Angel, and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
Recording sessions took place at Columbia's Studio A in New York City from January 23 to 25, 1963, with a budget of $18,000. The material was mainly Broadway standards, some of which were quite obscure. "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" had been performed by Dennis King in the 1938 production of I Married An Angel, and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"