Love Swings

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Love Swings
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Studio album by
Bobby Darin
ReleasedJuly 1961
RecordedMarch 21–23, 1961
Genre Pop
Length29:30
Label Atco
Producer Ahmet Ertegün
Bobby Darin chronology
Two of a Kind
(1961)		Love Swings
(1961)		 Twist with Bobby Darin
(1961)

Love Swings is an album of standards by American singer Bobby Darin, released in 1961.

Contents

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated September 11, 1961, and remained on the chart for 10 weeks, peaking at number 92. [1] It debuted on the Cashbox albums chart in the issue dated August 26, 1961, and remained on the chart for a total of 3 weeks, peaking at number 49. [2]

Love Swings was included in a box set entitled Four Classic Albums Plus Box Set, which contains 3 of his studio albums, 1 compilation, and was released on July 1, 2016. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

In his Allmusic review, critic JT Griffith called the album "one of the most unheralded and under appreciated Bobby Darin albums" and is Darin's "most interesting conceptual approach to an album. The sequence of songs takes the listener on an emotional journey from love's first stirrings and its delirious heights to the first disillusionments and melancholy lows. Love Swings plays like two separate albums. While both sides are cohesive thematically, it is hard to listen to the sweet swinging sounds of side one and then eagerly flip to the more haunting and moody songs on side two. This is one of Bobby Darin's most sophisticated albums" [4]

Billboard in its Late Pop Spotlight album reviews stated that "Darin is at his swinging best in the fine new set". [6]

In The Show I'll Never Forget, Sean Manning describes the album as "a wonderful Sinatra-school album. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 1:49
  2. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:18
  3. "How About You?" (Ralph Freed, Burton Lane) – 2:03
  4. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 1:44
  5. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 2:13
  6. "No Greater Love" (Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:23
  7. "In Love in Vain" (Kern, Leo Robin) – 3:07
  8. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:13
  9. "Something to Remember You By" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:01
  10. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 2:42
  11. "Spring Is Here" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:47
  12. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:10

Charts

Chart (1961)Peak

position

US Billboard Top LPs [1] 92
US Cash Box [2] 49

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 198. ISBN   0898201179 . Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Hoffmann, Frank W (1988). The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. p. 90. ISBN   0-8108-2005-6.
  3. ↑ "Four Classic Albums". allmusic.com. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  4. 1 2 Griffith, JT. "Love Swings > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 394. ISBN   9781846098567 . Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Late Pop Spotlight: Bobby Darin Love Swings". Billboard . Vol. 73, no. 27. July 10, 1961. p. 3.
  7. ↑ Manning, Sean (2009). The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience. Grand Central Publishing. p. 265. ISBN   9-7807-8673-4443.
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