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Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (1964)

Where the lyrics of Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners take you, and where it was really made.

This 1964 Sinatra album centers on Academy Award Best Song winners, with arrangements and conducting by Nelson Riddle.

Key places

Recorded in Hollywood, Los Angeles (1964)

Recording site Hollywood (Los Angeles) — The album was recorded in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in sessions dated April 29, 1963 and January 27–28, 1964. The source does not name a specific studio. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners is a 1964 album by Frank Sinatra
• Also known simply as Academy Award Winners
• Focuses on songs that won the Academy Award for Best Song
• Released March 1964
• Eleven tracks, opening with Days of Wine and Roses and closing with All the Way

Background

• The collection centers on Best Song Academy Award winners
• Track list credits songwriters such as Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields
• Frank Sinatra provides the vocals

Recording

• Recorded in Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Recording sessions dated April 29, 1963 and January 27–28, 1964
• The orchestra is arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle
• Personnel listing names only Sinatra and Riddle

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants.
• Began singing professionally as a teenager with the Hoboken Four, winning Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
• Joined Harry James's band in 1939, then Tommy Dorsey's band, before going solo in 1942.

Career

• Signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and became a major star of the bobby-soxer era.
• Signed with Capitol Records in 1953; collaborated with arranger Nelson Riddle on albums such as In the Wee Small Hours and Songs for Swingin' Lovers!.
• Founded Reprise Records in 1960, releasing albums including September of My Years and the hit single "My Way".
• Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity (1953).
• Estimated to have sold around 150 million records worldwide.
• Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.
• Died May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles.

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Reception

At release

• Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic.com gave the album a lukewarm review, calling it a 'professional and stylish album'
• He said the album 'only yields a handful of true gems'
• He found neither Sinatra nor Riddle at fault
• He said the record plays as 'a series of individual moments, not as a cohesive collection'

Reappraisal

• Erlewine praised The Way You Look Tonight as one of Sinatra's 'classic performances'
• He rated Three Coins in the Fountain and All the Way highly

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Trivia

• The track list runs eleven songs, from Days of Wine and Roses (2:16) to All the Way (3:27).
• Days of Wine and Roses is credited to Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is credited to Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain.
• The Continental is credited to Herb Magidson and Con Conrad.
• Erlewine singled out The Way You Look Tonight as a standout performance on the record.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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