Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners

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Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners
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Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedMarch 1964
RecordedApril 29, 1963, January 27–28, 1964, Hollywood
Genre Vocal jazz, traditional pop
Length32:29
Label Reprise
FS 1011
Producer Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra chronology
Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
(1963)		Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners
(1964)		 America, I Hear You Singing
(1964)

Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (or simply Academy Award Winners) is a 1964 album by Frank Sinatra, focusing on songs that won the Academy Award for Best Song. The orchestra is arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing for Allmusic.com gave the album a lukewarm review, describing it as a 'professional and stylish album' but saying that it 'only yields a handful of true gems'. Erlewine found neither Sinatra or Riddle at fault, but said that the record plays as 'a series of individual moments, not as a cohesive collection'. Erlewine praises "The Way You Look Tonight" as one of Sinatra's 'classic performances', and rates "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "All the Way" highly. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 2:16
  2. "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:20
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
  4. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 3:46
  5. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) - 1:51
  6. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 3:54
  7. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:53
  8. "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:26
  9. "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad) - 3:14
  10. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Webster, Fain) - 3:22
  11. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27

Complete Personnel

Tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 10:

28-January-1964 (Tuesday) - Hollywood. United Recording (from 8 to 11 P.M.).

Conrad Gozzo, Shorty Sherock, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Dick Noel, Tom Shepard (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw (fr-h); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee, Champ Webb, Justin Gordon, Joe Koch (wwd); Israel Baker, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Victor Amo, Gerald Vinci, Bonnie Douglas, Alex Beller, Victor Bay, Joe Stepansky (vln); Louis Kievman, Paul Robyn (via); Nino Rosso, Kurt Reher, David Pratt (vlc); Kathryn Julye (g); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola, Laurindo Almeida (g); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottler (d); Emil Richards (perc).

Tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 9:

27-January-1964 (Monday) - Hollywood.

Conte Candoli, Cappy Lewis, Don Fagerquist, Shorty Sherock (tpt); Tom Shepard, Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, William Hinshaw (fr-h); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee (alt/fl); Justin Gordon (sax/clt); Joe Koch (sax/clt/b-clt); Champ Webb (sax/fl/clt/oboe); Emo Neufeld, Victor Amo, Marshall Sasson, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci, Carl LaMag- na, Jacques Gasselin, Alex Beller, Victor Bay (vln); Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn (via); Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, Nino Rosso (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottler (d/bells); Emil Richards (perc/tymp ).

Track 11:

29-April-1963 (Monday) - Hollywood. United Recording (from 8 to 11 P.M.).

Shorty Sherock, Don Fagerquist, Irving Bush, Mickey Mangano (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Dick Noel, Ed Kusby (tbn); Ken Shroyer (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, James Decker (fr-h); Willie Schwartz (alt/fl/cit); Harry Klee (sax/fl/cit); Plas Johnson (sax/fl/cit); Champ Webb (oboe/cit); Joe Koch (cit/ b-clt); Emo Neufeld, Anatol Kaminsky, Israel Baker, Gerald Vinci, James Getzoff, Victor Amo, Paul Shure, Jacques Gasselin, Nathan Ross,· Alex Beller, Joe Stepansky, Alex Murray (vln); Paul Robyn, Virginia Majewski, Allan Harshman, Stanley Harris (via); Edgar Lustgarten, Ray Kramer, Nino Rosso, Eleanor Slatkin (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert (b); Irving Cottler (d); Emil Richards (perc).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Frank Sinatra: Sings Academy Award Winners" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 170. 13 June 1964. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
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