Released 1964 Artist Frank Sinatra Producer Sonny Burke | Length 32:29 Release date 1964 Label Reprise Records | |
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Recorded January 27–28, 1964, Hollywood Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
(1964) America, I Hear You Singing
(1964) Genres Traditional pop music, Vocal jazz Similar Frank Sinatra albums, Traditional pop music albums | ||
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.
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Reception
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.
Track listing
- "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 2:16
- "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:20
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
- "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 3:46
- "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) - 1:51
- "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 3:54
- "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:53
- "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:26
- "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad) - 3:14
- "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Webster, Fain) - 3:22
- "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27
Personnel
Songs
1Days of Wine and Roses2:16
2Moon River3:20
3The Way You Look Tonight3:22