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Come Dance with Me! (1959)

Where the lyrics of Come Dance with Me! take you, and where it was really made.

Sinatra's most successful album was a 12-song set of bouncy standards that stayed on Billboard's Pop album chart for 141 weeks.

Key places

Recorded at Capitol Studio A in Hollywood (1959)

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Album story

Overview

• Come Dance with Me!: 16th studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra
• Released 5 January 1959
• Original LP: 12 tracks, mostly standards
• Opening track "Come Dance with Me" written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
• Other writers include Johnny Mercer, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern
• Billy May arranged and conducted; Heinie Beau also arranged
• Personnel credit for Frank Sinatra: vocals

Background

• Regarded as Sinatra's most successful album in the source
• Remained on the Billboard charts for two and a half years
• Capitol released the album on compact disc in 1987 with four extra songs
• The 1987 CD bonus songs were not on the original 1959 LP
• 1998 remaster for the "Entertainer of the Century" series of Sinatra reissues
• The 1998 version keeps the same four bonus tracks
• Bonus tracks include "It All Depends on You" and "Same Old Song and Dance"
• Keely Smith sings on two duet bonus tracks

Recording

• Recorded at Capitol Studio A in Hollywood, the studio named for this album

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

At release

• Stereo Review wrote in 1959 that Sinatra swaggers through an appealing collection of bouncy standards
• Stereo Review quoted the album notes' description of the singing as vocals that dance

Records

• Stayed on Billboard's Pop album chart for 141 weeks
• Peaked at number 2 on Billboard's Pop album chart, for four weeks
• Spent two and a half years on the Billboard charts
• Stayed in the Billboard top ten for 58 weeks: 29 weeks in 1959 and 29 weeks in 1960
• Won the Album of the Year Grammy at the Grammy Awards of 1960
• Won Best Vocal Performance, Male at the same Grammy Awards
• Billy May won Best Arrangement at the same Grammy Awards

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Capitol released the CD in 1987 with four songs missing from the original LP.
• The 1998 remaster kept the same four bonus tracks as the 1987 release.
• Keely Smith sings on two CD bonus duets: "Nothing in Common" and "How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?"
• Billy May won Best Arrangement at the 1960 Grammys.
• Songs on the album were written by Johnny Mercer, Jule Styne, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, among others.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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