Sinatra and Strings
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{{Infobox album
| name = Sinatra and Strings
| type = studio album
| artist = Frank Sinatra
| cover = Sinatraandstrings.jpg
| alt =
| released = January 1962
| recorded = November 20–22, 1961, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Vocal jazz|traditional pop}}
| length = 34:50
| label = Reprise
{{small|FS 1004}}
| producer =
| prev_title = I Remember Tommy
| prev_year = 1961
| next_title = Point of No Return
| next_year = 1962
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r70145|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |year=2006 |title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |edition=4th |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195313734}}
}}
Sinatra and Strings is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra consisting of standard ballads. It was arranged by Don Costa.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r70145|label=Sinatra and Strings}}
The album was the first that Sinatra recorded with Costa.{{cite book |last=Granata |first=Charles L. |year=2003 |title=Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXZvTzc-9PwC |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1-61374-281-5 |page=162}} They subsequently worked together on Cycles (1968), My Way (1969), A Man Alone (1969), Some Nice Things I've Missed (1974) and Trilogy (1980). Charles L. Granata, in his 2003 book Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording, felt the producer and mixing engineer of the album "chose to enhance the flat session tapes with just the right shower of reverberation, resulting in an appealingly glossy wet sound".
Costa subsequently felt that the album "was and always will be, the hallmark of my existence" and Sinatra's son, Frank Sinatra Jr., felt that the album with its large orchestra and "lush string sound" marked a new era in his father's recordings.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = I Hadn't Anyone Till You
| writer1 = Ray Noble
| length1 = 3:44
| title2 = Night and Day
| writer2 = Cole Porter
| length2 = 3:37
| title3 = Misty
| writer3 = {{hlist|Erroll Garner|Johnny Burke}}
| length3 = 2:41
| title4 = Stardust
| writer4 = {{hlist|Hoagy Carmichael|Mitchell Parish}}
| length4 = 2:48
| title5 = Come Rain or Come Shine
| writer5 = {{hlist|Harold Arlen|Johnny Mercer}}
| length5 = 4:06
| title6 = It Might as Well Be Spring
| writer6 = {{hlist|Richard Rodgers|Oscar Hammerstein II}}
| length6 = 3:15
| title7 = Prisoner of Love
| writer7 = {{hlist|Russ Columbo|Leo Robin|Clarence Gaskill}}
| length7 = 3:50
| title8 = That's All
| writer8 = {{hlist|Bob Haymes|Alan Brandt}}
| length8 = 3:21
| title9 = All or Nothing at All
| writer9 = {{hlist|Jack Lawrence|Arthur Altman}}
| length9 = 3:43
| title10 = Yesterdays
| writer10 = {{hlist|Otto Harbach|Jerome Kern}}
| length10 = 3:45
| total_length = 34:50
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 1991 CD reissue bonus tracks
| title11 = As You Desire Me
| writer11 = Allie Wrubel
| length11 = 2:53
| title12 = Don't Take Your Love from Me
| writer12 = Henry Nemo
| length12 = 4:05
| total_length = 41:48
}}
Complete personnel
Tracks 1, 4, 10, 11:
20-November-1961 (Monday) - Hollywood.
Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, James Decker, Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw (fr-h); Ted Nash, Harry Klee, Willie Schwartz (fl); Russell Cheever, Justin Gordon (clt); Lloyd Hildebrand (bsn); William Kosinski (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc/timp); Don Costa (arr/cond).
Tracks 2, 5, 9:
22-November-1961 (Wednesday) - Hollywood.
Conrad Gozzo, Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino, Robert Bryant (tpt); Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, James Decker, Richard Perissi, John Cave (fr-h); Bud Shank, Abe Most, Justin Gordon (sax/fl); Russell Cheever, Arthur Smith (sax/clt); Jack Marsh (sax/bsn); Jules Jacob (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Armand Kaproff, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc/tymp); a vocal group [I]. Don Costa, Nelson Riddle (arr).
Tracks 3, 6, 7, 8, 12:
21-November-1961 (Tuesday) - Hollywood.
Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); John Cave, Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw, Sinclair Lott (fr-h); Arthur Gleghorn, Ethmer Roten, Jules Kinsler (fl); Mahlon Clark, Arthur Smith (clt); Lloyd Hildebrand (bsn); Jules Jacob (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc); Don Costa (arr/cond).{{Cite book |title=Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography |isbn=978-0274963768}}
References
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Category:Reprise Records albums