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
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	March 1964
Recorded	April 29, 1963, January 27–28, 1964, Hollywood
Genre	Vocal jazz, traditional pop
Length	32:29
Label	Reprise FS 1011
Producer	Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra chronology
Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (1963) Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners (1964) America, I Hear You Singing (1964)

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Record Mirror	[2]

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

1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 2:16
2. "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:20
3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
4. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 3:46
5. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) - 1:51
6. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 3:54
7. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:53
8. "It Might As Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:26
9. "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad) - 3:14
10. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Webster, Fain) - 3:22
11. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27

Personnel

• Frank Sinatra - vocals
• Nelson Riddle - arrangements, conductor

References

This page was last edited on 29 March 2023, at 22:34