| Once More with Feeling | ||||
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| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | January 28–29, 1960 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop Jazz | |||
| Length | 42:47 | |||
| Label | Roulette Records SR 5104 | |||
| Producer | Teddy Reig | |||
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Once More with Feeling is a 1960 studio album by the American singer Billy Eckstine. It was arranged by Billy May and produced by Teddy Reig. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [2] |
In his review for Allmusic John Bush wrote that Eckstine was "looking back more than forward by 1960" and highlighted the re-recordings of older Eckstine hits and film theme songs on the album. Bush added that "It may read like a desultory date, and indeed it would have been if not for the presence of a solid jazz band and the surprisingly sympathetic arrangements of big-brass auteur Billy May. Eckstine had fronted some strong bands in the past and consequently doesn't need to strain his voice to equal the energy behind May's charts, even on unexpected swingers like "Stormy Weather" and "I Hear a Rhapsody." "I Apologize," one of the two remakes, is treated with glimmering strings that certainly suggest the '40s but work in the context of the adult-pop era as well". [1] Billboard magazine gave Once More with Feeling four stars in March 1960, and wrote that "Mr. B is in as fine fettle here as he's been for some time...Old friends of Eckstein's [sic] will really go for this and he stands to make some new fans as well". [3]
William Clarence Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award "for performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." His recording of "I Apologize" was given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. The New York Times described him as an "influential band leader" whose "suave bass-baritone" and "full-throated, sugary approach to popular songs inspired singers like Earl Coleman, Johnny Hartman, Joe Williams, Arthur Prysock, and Lou Rawls."
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