The Concert Sinatra
1963 studio album by Frank Sinatra
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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.
ReleasedJune 2, 1963
RecordedFebruary 18–21, 1963
StudioGoldwyn Studios Scoring Stage (Stage 7), Culver City, California
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| Released | June 2, 1963 | |||
| Recorded | February 18–21, 1963 | |||
| Studio | Goldwyn Studios Scoring Stage (Stage 7), Culver City, California | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz, traditional pop | |||
| Length | 31:26 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
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| Billboard | positive ("Spotlight" pick)[2] |
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Track listing
- "I Have Dreamed" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:01
- "My Heart Stood Still" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:06
- "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:11
- "Ol' Man River" (Hammerstein, Jerome Kern) – 4:29
- "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 3:11
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:02
- "This Nearly Was Mine" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:49
- "Soliloquy" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 8:05
- Bonus tracks included on the 2012 reissue:
- "California" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:36
- "America the Beautiful" (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward) - 2:21
Complete personnel
- Frank Sinatra – vocals
- Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
- Russ Hanson – engineer
- Vinton Vernon – mixer