Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V

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Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V
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Studio album by
Rod Stewart
Released19 October 2010
Studio Westlake Studios and Reagan's Garage (Los Angeles, CA); Conway Studios and EastWest Studios (Hollywood, CA).
Genre
Length39:43
Label J
Producer Richard Perry, Rod Stewart, Clive Davis, Lauren Wild
Rod Stewart chronology
Soulbook
(2009)		Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V
(2010)		 Merry Christmas, Baby
(2012)
Professional ratings
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Metacritic 51/100 [1]
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Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V is the fifth title in Rod Stewart's series of covers of pop standards, released on 19 October 2010, and his 26th studio album overall. It has sold 363,000 copies as of October 2012. [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:35
  2. "Beyond the Sea" (Jack Lawrence, Charles Trenet) – 3:25
  3. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
  4. "What a Difference a Day Makes" (Stanley Adams, María Grever) – 3:21
  5. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Porter) – 3:32
  6. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:52
  7. "Love Me or Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:07
  8. "My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:37
  9. "September in the Rain" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:55
  10. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 2:45
  11. "Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:56
  12. "Moon River" (Henry Mancini, Mercer) – 2:48
Limited edition bonus CD
  1. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 4:09
  2. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 3:09
  3. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 3:23
  4. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:29
  5. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:48
  6. "When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Young) – 3:45

Personnel

Credits (bonus tracks 1–6)

Production

Reception

"I was looking forward to hearing Rod [Stewart]'s records of standards. I thought if anybody could bring something different to these songs, Rod certainly could. But the records were disappointing. Rod's a great singer, but there's no point putting a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living, but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way. It sounds like so many records where the vocals are overdubbed, and these kind of songs don't come off well if you use modern recording techniques." - Bob Dylan, 2015 [5]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [32] Gold35,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [33] Gold40,000^
Poland (ZPAV) [34] Platinum20,000*
Sweden (GLF) [35] Gold20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [36] Gold100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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