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Where Are You? (1957)

Where the lyrics of Where Are You? take you, and where it was really made.

The 1970 reissue gave this 1957 album a new name, The Night We Called It a Day, taken from one of its songs.

Key places

Capitol Studio A in Hollywood (1957)

Recording site Capitol Studios — The album was recorded at Capitol Studio A in Hollywood, the Capitol studio where Sinatra made this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Where Are You?: thirteenth studio album by Frank Sinatra
• Released 2 September 1957
• Original release has 12 tracks
• First album Sinatra recorded at Capitol without Nelson Riddle
• Gordon Jenkins was the arranger instead of Riddle
• First album Sinatra recorded in stereo
• 1970 reissue as a ten-track album under the name The Night We Called It a Day

Background

• Recorded at Capitol, where Sinatra made this album with a new musical partner
• Gordon Jenkins took the place Nelson Riddle had held on earlier Capitol albums
• Original track list includes 'Where Are You?', 'The Night We Called It a Day', 'I Cover the Waterfront', 'Laura', 'Autumn Leaves' and 'Lonely Town'
• Other tracks include 'I'm a Fool to Want You' and 'Baby Won't You Please Come Home'
• Later CD reissues added four bonus tracks not on the 1957 release: 'I Can Read Between the Lines', 'It Worries Me', 'Rain (Falling from the Skies)' and 'Don't Worry 'Bout Me'

Recording

• Recorded at Capitol Studio A in Hollywood
• Recorded in stereo, the first stereo album Sinatra made
• Mono version contained all 12 tracks
• Early stereo pressings had only 11 tracks
• 'I Cover the Waterfront' was recorded only in mono, which is why it was left off early stereo pressings

Cover

• The cover art is not described in the source.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

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.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• Original 1957 release had 12 tracks, the mono edition carried all of them
• Early pressings of the stereo album had only 11 tracks
• 'I Cover the Waterfront' was recorded only in mono and was therefore missing from early stereo pressings
• Later stereo pressings in some international markets and in boxed sets restored 'Waterfront'
• The restoration started around 1975, first in Holland
• The 1970 reissue as The Night We Called It a Day cut the album to ten tracks
• Four bonus tracks appear on CD reissues, none of which were on the original 1957 release
• 'I Think of You' uses the lyrical E-flat major second theme from the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
• The source gives no critical reviews, so the album's reception is recorded here only through its pressings, track changes and reissues

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The 1970 reissue cut the album to ten tracks and gave it the name The Night We Called It a Day, the title of one of its songs.
• 'I Think of You' is based on the lyrical E-flat major second theme of the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
• 'I Cover the Waterfront' was recorded only in mono, so it was missing from early stereo pressings.
• Stereo pressings restored 'Waterfront' starting around 1975, first in Holland.
• Four bonus tracks on CD reissues were not on the original 1957 release.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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