I Just Dropped by to Say Hello is a studio album by jazz singer Johnny Hartman, released by Impulse! Records in 1964.[4] It was Hartman's second and next-to-last album on Impulse!, after his highly successful collaboration with John Coltrane which produced John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, recorded a few months earlier.

I Just Dropped By to Say Hello
Studio album by Johnny Hartman
Released	1964
Recorded	October 9 & 17, 1963 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	33:09
Label	Impulse! A-57
Producer	Bob Thiele
Johnny Hartman chronology
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963) I Just Dropped By to Say Hello (1964) The Voice That Is! (1965)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

Track listing

1. "Charade (from Charade)" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 2:38
2. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 2:49
3. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 2:15
4. "Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)" (Mack David, Duke Ellington) – 4:14
5. "Kiss & Run" (Rene Denoncin, William Engvick, Jack Ledru) – 3:35
6. "If I'm Lucky" (Eddie DeLange, Josef Myrow) – 2:52
7. "I Just Dropped by to Say Hello" (Sid Feller, Rick Ward) – 4:10
8. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 3:09
9. "Our Time" (Stanley Glick, Johnny Hartman) – 3:00
10. "Don't Call It Love" (Ronnell Bright) – 2:07
11. "How Sweet It Is to Be in Love" (George Cardini, Danny DiMinno) – 2:20

Tracks 1, 6 recorded on October 9, 1963; the remainder on October 17, 1963.

Personnel

• Johnny Hartman - vocals
• Illinois Jacquet - tenor saxophone
• Kenny Burrell - guitar (tracks 2-5, 7-11)
• Jim Hall - guitar (tracks 1, 6)
• Hank Jones - piano
• Milt Hinton - double bass
• Elvin Jones - drums

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