The Concert Sinatra

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The Concert Sinatra
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 2, 1963
RecordedFebruary 18–February 21, 1963
StudioGoldwyn Studios Scoring Stage (Stage 7) Hollywood
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length31:26
LabelReprise
Frank Sinatra chronology
Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First
(1962)
The Concert Sinatra
(1963)
Sinatra's Sinatra
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Billboardpositive ("Spotlight" pick)[2]
Mojo[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
New Record Mirror[5]
The Concert Sinatra
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 17, 2012
RecordedFebruary 18–February 21, 1963
StudioGoldwyn Studios Scoring Stage (Stage 7), Hollywood
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length37:30
LabelConcord
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Mojo[3]

The Concert Sinatra is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra that was released in 1963. It consists of showtunes performed in a 'semi-classical' concert style.[1] Marking a reunion between Sinatra and his frequent collaborator, arranger Nelson Riddle, it was the first full-album Riddle arranged on Sinatra's Reprise Records label.[6] Riddle's orchestra consisted of 76 musicians, then the largest assembled for a Sinatra album, and was recorded at four soundstages on the Goldwyn Studios lot using eight tracks of Westrex 35mm film (see sound follower) and twenty-four RCA 44-BX ribbon microphones.

Track listing[edit]

  1. "I Have Dreamed" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:01
  2. "My Heart Stood Still" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:06
  3. "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:11
  4. "Ol' Man River" (Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 4:29
  5. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 3:11
  6. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:02
  7. "This Nearly Was Mine" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:49
  8. "Soliloquy" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 8:05
    Bonus tracks included on the 2012 reissue:
  9. "California" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:36
  10. "America the Beautiful" (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward) - 2:21

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Concert Sinatra". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Album Reviews: Pop Spotlight". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 June 1963. p. 10.
  3. ^ a b Male, Andrew (January 2010). "The Concert Sinatra". Mojo (194).
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ Watson, Jimmy (13 July 1963). "Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  6. ^ Loudon, Christopher (22 May 2012). "Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra - JazzTimes". JazzTimes. Retrieved 30 November 2018.

Sinatra, Frank (1963). The Concert Sinatra (booklet). Frank Sinatra. Los Angeles, California: Reprise Records. R9 1009.