Come Swing with Me!

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Come Swing with Me!
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Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedJuly 31, 1961
RecordedMarch 20–22, 1961
Studio Capitol Studio A (Hollywood)
Genre Vocal jazz
Length31:00
Label Capitol
Producer Dave Cavanaugh
Frank Sinatra chronology
Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
(1961)		Come Swing with Me!
(1961)		 Sinatra Swings
(1961)
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Come Swing with Me! is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1961.

Contents

The album is Sinatra's final swing session with Capitol Records, as his next album, Point of No Return , would be composed mainly of torch songs. In 1971 it was re-issued as a ten-track album under the name Sentimental Journey. This album is possibly unique for the orchestral arrangement and stereophonic set-up by Billy May. Due to Capitol's signature "full-spectrum Stereo sound," the audience can distinctly hear the placement of specific orchestral pieces in the studio at the time of the recording (i.e., differences in brass sections from left, to right, to all together in the center). This is most apparent to the apt listener in the album's opening hit, "Day by Day".

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Arranged byLength
1."Day by Day"
 Billy May 2:39
2."Sentimental Journey"
 Heinie Beau 3:26
3."Almost Like Being in Love"
May2:02
4."Five Minutes More"
May2:36
5."American Beauty Rose"
Beau2:22
6."Yes Indeed!" Sy Oliver May2:35
7."On the Sunny Side of the Street"
May2:42
8."Don't Take Your Love from Me" Henry Nemo Beau1:59
9."That Old Black Magic"
Beau4:05
10."Lover"
Beau1:53
11."Paper Doll"Johnny S. BlackMay2:08
12."I've Heard That Song Before"
  • Cahn
  • Styne
May2:33
Total length:31:00
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Arranged byLength
13."I Love You"
  • Harlan Thompson
  • Harry Archer
May2:28
14."Why Should I Cry Over You"
  • N. Miller
  • C. Conn
 Nelson Riddle 2:42
15."How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me"
  • T. Glenn
  • A. Roberts
Riddle2:44
16."River, Stay 'Way From My Door"
Riddle2:38
17."I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues"
 Skip Martin 2:59
Total length:44:31

Complete personnel

Tracks 1, 2, 7, 8:

20-March-1961 (Monday) - Hollywood.

Mannie Klein, Johnny Best, Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Zeke Zarchy, James Salko, Maurice Harris, Joe Graves (tpt); Pete Carpenter, Lew McCreary, Barrett O'Hara, Jimmy Priddy, Kenneth Trimble, Jimmy Hen- derson, Richard Kenney (tbn); Fred Fox, John Graas, Gale Robinson, William Culley (fr-h); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Tony Rizzi (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); Irving Cottler (d). Billy May, Heinie Beau (arr).

Tracks 3, 4, 10, 11:

22-March-1961 (Wednesday) - Hollywood.

Mannie Klein, Johnny Best, Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Ray Triscari, Stu Williamson, Zeke Zarchy, Joe Graves (tpt); Pete Carpenter, Lew McCreary, Frank Rosolino, Tom Shepard, Ken Shroyer, Kenneth Trimble, Jimmy Henderson (tbn); James Decker, Vincent DeRosa, Fred Fox, Richard Perissi (fr-h); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); Irving Cottler (d). Billy May, Heinie Beau (arr).

Tracks 5, 6, 9, 12:

21-March-1961 (Tuesday) - Hollywood.

Mannie Klein, Johnny Best, Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Ray Triscari, Stu Williamson, Zeke Zarchy, Joe Graves (tpt); Pete Carpenter, Lew McCreary, Frank Rosolino, Tom Shepard, Ken Shroyer, Kenneth Trimble, Jimmy Henderson (tbn); James Decker, Arthur Maebe, Gene Sherry, Wally Linder (fr-h); Verlye Mills (harp); Bill Miller (p); Bobby Gibbons (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); Irving Cottler (d). Billy May, Heinie Beau (arr).

Track 13:

30-April-1953 (Thursday) - Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein, Mickey Mangano, Zeke Zarchy (tpt); Si Zentner, Joe Howard, Jimmy Priddy, Milt Bernhart (tbn); Skeets Herfurt, Jack Dumont, Ted Nash, Ted Romersa, Joe Koch (sax/wwd); Bill Miller (p); Al Hendrickson (g); Phil Stephens (b); Alvin Stoller (d); Nelson Riddle (arr).

Track 14:

8-December-1953 (Tuesday) - Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein, Shorty Sherock, Mickey Mangano (tpt); Milt Bernhart, Joe Howard, Lloyd Ulyate (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Jack Du- mont, Willie Schwartz, Sam Donahue, Buck Skalak, Joe Koch (sax/wwd); Bill Miller (p); Bob Bain (g); Joe Comfort (b); Alvin Stoller (d); a vocal group [l]; Nelson Riddle (arr).

Track 15:

7-March-1955 (Monday)- Hollywood.

Mickey Mangano, Harry Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein (tpt); Ed Kusby, Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Walter Benson (tbn); Skeets Herfurt, Willie Schwartz, Plas Johnson, Babe Russin, Chuck Gentry (sax/wwd); Bill Miller, Ray Johnson (p); Jack Marshall (g); Joe Comfort (b); Alvin Stoller (d); Max Albright (marimba); Nelson Riddle (arr).

Track 16:

13-April-1960 (Wednesday) - Hollywood.

(No Record of Band). Singers: Mack McLean and Clark Yocum. Nelson Riddle (arr).

Track 17:

6/7-March-1962 (Tue/Wed) - Hollywood.

Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo, Shorty Sherock, Mickey Mangano (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, Ed Kusby, William Schaefer (tbn); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee (alt/fl); Justin Gordon (sax/cit/fl); Jules Jacob (sax/cit/oboe); Chuck Gentry (bar/b-clt); Marshall Sosson, Emo Neufeld, Jacques Gasselin, Nathan Ross, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, James Getzoff, Victor Arno, Felix Slatkin (vln); Ray Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Justin DiTullio, Eleanor Slatkin (vlc); Verlye Mills (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottler (d); Emil Richards (perc/tymp). Skippy Martin, Billy May (arr). [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Come Swing with Me! at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Aiken, Kit (November 2003). "Croon squad". Uncut . No. 20. p. 92.
  3. ↑ Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography. ISBN   978-0274963768.
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