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No One Cares (1959)

Where the lyrics of No One Cares take you, and where it was really made.

Sinatra himself reportedly called this album a collection of 'suicide songs'.

Key places

Recording site: Capitol Studios, Hollywood (1959)

Recording site Capitol Studios — Capitol Studios in Hollywood is recorded as the place where this album was made. The source gives no session dates, so this point is shown without a specific day. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• No One Cares: the seventeenth studio album by Frank Sinatra
• Released July 20, 1959
• Originally issued in stereo and monaural Hi-Fi versions, each with eleven songs
• Generally considered a sequel to the 1957 album Where Are You?, also arranged by Gordon Jenkins
• Shares a sad, lonesome, gloomy theme and concept with In the Wee Small Hours and Only the Lonely, both arranged by Nelson Riddle

Background

• Sinatra described the album's mood in a press interview given around the time of its release
• He said it was a tough album to make and a tough mood to sustain
• He said he and Gordon Jenkins were thinking alike and everything came out perfectly
• He said he liked making it because he thought it would mean something to people who know how it is when no one cares
• 'Gloomy Sunday' was left out because, in his words, it was too swingin'
• That song reportedly supplied the impetus for a dozen or so suicides

Recording

• Gordon Jenkins is credited as arranger and conductor
• Tracks 1 and 10 were arranged by Jenkins as part of the original concept but were conducted by Nelson Riddle, uncredited, in Jenkins' absence
• A twelfth song, 'The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)', was recorded at the sessions but left unreleased until 1973
• Frank Sinatra provides the vocals

Cover

• The cover photograph was taken at Sinatra's Puccini restaurant in Beverly Hills, California
• Sinatra co-owned the restaurant with Peter Lawford
• Liner notes were written by Jazz magazine critic Ralph Gleason
• Capitol Records printed 2,000 giant blowups of the cover for display at point-of-purchase locations

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

• Critics described No One Cares as the singer's saddest and darkest album
• Sinatra himself purportedly referred to it as a collection of 'suicide songs'
• In a press interview around the release, he said it was a tough album to make and a tough mood to sustain
• He credited Gordon Jenkins with thinking along the same lines, saying everything came out perfectly

Reappraisal

• The album is generally considered a sequel to Where Are You? (1957), which Jenkins also arranged
• Its sad, lonesome, gloomy theme and concept are shared with In the Wee Small Hours and Only the Lonely, both arranged by Nelson Riddle
• The gloomy mood is the key trait linking these albums as a group
• Sinatra said he liked making it because he believed it would mean something to people who know how it is when no one cares

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Capitol Records printed 2,000 giant blowups of the cover for display at point-of-purchase locations to promote the album
• A twelfth song was recorded at the sessions but was left unreleased until 1973
• The cover photo was taken at Puccini, the Beverly Hills restaurant Sinatra co-owned with Peter Lawford
• The liner notes were written by Ralph Gleason, a Jazz magazine critic
• Sinatra reportedly said 'Gloomy Sunday' was left out because it was too swingin'
• Tracks 1 and 10 were conducted by Nelson Riddle, uncredited, in Gordon Jenkins' absence

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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