On August 16, 1965, “Imperial” label released “All I Really Want to Do”, the debut Cher studio album. It was recorded in 1965, at “Gold Star” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Sonny Bono.
Personnel:
Cher – lead vocals
Monte Dunn – guitar
Jeff Kaplan – guitar
Barney Kessel – guitar
Steve Mann – guitar
Donald Peake – guitar
Mike Post – guitar
Randy Sterling – guitar
Harold Battiste – piano
Michel Rubini – keyboards
Bill Marx – accordion, keyboards
René Hall – bass guitar
Cliff Hills – bass guitar
Mel Pollan – bass guitar
Lyle Ritz – bass guitar
Frank Capp – drums
Sharkey Hall – drums
Jessie Sailes – drums
Frank DeVito – percussion
Gene Estes – percussion
Brian Stone – percussion
Julius Wechter – percussion
Harold Battiste – arrangements
Track listing:
All I Really Want to Do – Bob Dylan
I Go to Sleep – Ray Davies
Needles and Pins – Sonny Bono, Jack Nitzsche
Don’t Think Twice – Bob Dylan
He Think I Still Care – Dickey Lee Lipscomb
Dream Baby – Sonny Bono
The Bells of Rhymney – Idris Davies, Pete Seeger
Gir Don’t Come – Chris Andrews
See See Rider – traditional, arranged by Sonny Bono, Charles Greene, Robert Stone
On May 30, 1966, “Reprise” label released “Strangers in the Night”, the 43rd Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded April – May 1966, in Hollywood, and was produced by Jimmy Bowen. At the 1967 “Grammy Awards”, Frank Sinatra won “Record of the Year” and “Best Male Vocal Performance”. Ernie Freeman’s arrangement of the title track won him the “Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist”, and Eddie Brackett and Lee Herschberg’s engineering earned them the “Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical”. The album was certified Platinum in Us by the “RIIA”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Glen Campbell, Al Viola – guitar
Artie Kane – Hammond B3 organ
Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis, Ray Triscari – trumpet
Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Tom Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Chuck Gentry, Bill Green, Justin Gordon, Harry Klee, Ronny Lang – saxophone
Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson, Richard Perissi – French horn
Bill Green, Andreas Kostelas – flute
Sidney Sharp, Lennie Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushe, John De Voogdt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Victor Amo, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, Harry Bluestone – violin
Harry Hyams, Joseph Di Fiore, Darrel Terwilliger, Alex Neiman, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Armand Kaproff – viola
Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff – vielle
Bill Miller, Michel Rubini – piano
Alvin Casey, William Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Chuck Berghofer, Ralph Pefla – bass
Hal Blaine, Irving Cottler – drums
Eddie Brackett Jr., Emil Richards – percussion
Ernie Freeman – arrangements
Donnie Lanier, Nelson Riddle – conductor
Track listing:
Strangers in the Night (from the “Universal” picture “A Man Could Get Killed” – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind – Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer
All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
Call Me – Tony Hatch
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Walter Donaldson
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
My baby Just Cares for Me – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Downtown – Tony Hatch
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
In July 1973, “20th Century” label released “The Morning After”, the debut Maureen McGovern album. It was recorded in 1973, and was produced by Carl Maduri.
Personnel:
Maureen McGovern – vocals
Bob Fraser – guitars
Bill Severance – drums, percussion
Michel Rubini, Gene Page, Gary Kekel – arrangements
Joe Hudson, Bob Hill – arrangements, conductors
Arnie Rosenberg – engineer, mixing
Track listing:
The Morning After (Song from The Poseidon Adventure)- Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
I Won’t Last a Day Without You – Paul Williams, Roger Nichols
And This I Find Is Beautiful – Mack David, Larry Weiss
Midnight Storm – Maureen McGovern, Jimmy Kennedy
It Might as Well Stay Monday (From Now On) – Bodie Chandler
If I Wrote You a Song – Maureen McGovern, Jimmy Kennedy
Don’t Try to Close a Rose – Ginger Greco
Darlene – Jonathan Cane
Can’t You Hear the Song – Chris Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow
Until It’s Time for You to Go – Buffy Sainte-Marie
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