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Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding-Ding

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In March 1961, “Reprise” label released “Ring-a-Ding-Ding!”, album by Frank Sinatra. It was recorded December 1960, in Los Angeles.

Personnel:

  • Frank Sinatra- vocals
  • Bill Miller – piano
  • Emil Richards- vibraphone
  • Don Fagerquist, John Anderson – trumpet
  • Frank Rosolino- trombone
  • Bud Shank- flute
  • Johnny Mandel- arrangements, conductor
  • Felix Slatkin- conductor

Track listing:

  1. Ring-a-Ding Ding! – Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
  2. Let’s Fall in Love – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  3. Be Careful, It’s My Heart – Irving Berlin
  4. A Foggy Day – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  5. A Fine Romance – Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields
  6. In the Still of the Night – Cole Porter
  7. The Coffee Song – Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles
  8. When I Take My Sugar to Tea – Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain, Pierre Norman
  9. Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Irving Berlin
  10. You’d Be So Easy to Love – Cole Porter
  11. You and the Night and the Music – Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz
  12. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – Irving Berlin

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

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On March 20, 2000, “Reprise” label released “Both Sides Now”, the seventeenth Joni Mitchell studio album. It was recorded in 1999, at “Air Studios” in London, and was produced by Joni Mitchell and Larry Klein. In 2001, the album won two “Grammy Awards”, for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” and “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)” for the song “Both Sides, Now”.

Personnel:

  • Joni Mitchell— vocals, cover art
  • Herbie Hancock— piano
  • Dave Arch — piano
  • Chris Laurence— double bass
  • Peter Erskine— drums
  • Frank Ricotti— percussion
  • Wayne Shorter— soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Mark Isham— trumpet
  • John Barclay — trumpet
  • Pete Beachill — trombone
  • Richard Henry — bass trombone
  • John Anderson — oboe
  • Julie Andrews — bassoon
  • Nick Bucknall — clarinet
  • Stan Sulzmann— clarinet, flute
  • Philip Todd — clarinet, flute, alto flute
  • Jamie Talbot — clarinet, flute, alto flute, alto saxophone
  • Andrew Findon — flute
  • Philip Eastop — horn
  • Owen Slade — tuba
  • Vaughan Armon — violin
  • Kate Wilkinson — viola
  • Dave Daniels — cello
  • Skaila Kanga— harp

Track listing:

  1. You’re My Thrill – Sidney Clare, Jay Gorney
  2. At Last – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
  3. Comes Love – Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias
  4. You’ve Changed – Bill Carey , Carl Fisher
  5. Answer My Love – Fred Rauch, Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler
  6. A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
  7. Don’t Go Strangers – Redd Evans, Arthur Kent, David Mann
  8. Sometimes I’m Happy – Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans
  9. Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me – Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler
  10. Stormy Weather – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  11. I Wish I Were in Love Again – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  12. Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell