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 occurred on January 23–25, 1963, at Columbia's Studio A in New York City with a budget of $18,000. The material was predominantly Broadway standards, many of which were not widely known. "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" had originally been performed by Dennis King in the 1938 production of I Married An Angel, and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"