Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
| Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners | ||||
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| Studio album by Frank Sinatra | ||||
| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | January 27–28, 1964, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz, traditional pop | |||
| Length | 32:29 | |||
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Reprise FS 1011 | |||
| Producer | Sonny Burke | |||
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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]
Reception
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
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
- "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
