Come Fly with Me (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Come Fly With Me
Type = Studio
Artist = Frank Sinatra


Released = 1958
Recorded = October 1-October 8, 1957 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
Genre = Vocal Jazz, Classic pop
Length = 46:08
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Voyle Gilmore
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5vmyxdsbjol7 link]
Last album = "A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra"
(1957)
This album = "Come Fly With Me"
(1958)
Next album = "This Is Sinatra Volume 2"
(1958) |

"Come Fly With Me" is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958 [ [http://www.songsbysinatra.com/records/albums.html Songs By Sinatra: Records - Albums Page ] ] .

Sinatra's first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May, "Come Fly With Me" was designed as a musical trip around the world. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the title track at Sinatra's request [ [http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=5 Songwriters Hall of Fame ] ] .

In his autobiography "All You Need is Ears", famed producer George Martin writes of having visited the Capitol Tower during the recording sessions for the album. According to Martin's book, Sinatra expressed intense dislike for the album cover upon being first shown a mock-up, suggesting it looked like an advertisement for TWA.

The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart in its second week, and remained at the top for five weeks. [Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Albums 1955-2001 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, 2001), 797.] At the Grammy Awards of 1959 "Come Fly with Me" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Though recorded in true stereo, "Come Fly With Me" was released to record stores in 1958 in monaural only; a standard practice by Capitol records at the time. The label finally released the stereo version in 1962. The differences between the 1958 monaural and subsequent 1962 stereo recording of "Come Fly With Me" are striking. The 1958 mono recording contains a depth and warmth, most especially in specific string and brass sections, which is lacking in the stereo remix of the album relased by Capitol as SW-920 in 1962. The original mono recording from 1958 is now all but lost to history, except for original Grey Capitol Label copies, labeled W-920, and some CD compilations. Capitol CD and remastered series (1992 and 1998 respectively) reproduce only the 1962 stereo version.

Track listing

ide one

#"Come Fly With Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:19
#"Around the World" (Victor Young, Harold Adamson) – 3:20
#"Isle of Capri" (Will Grosz, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:29
#"Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:32
#"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:37
#"On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speaks, Rudyard Kipling) – 3:28

ide two

#"Let's Get Away from It All" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 2:11
#"April in Paris" (Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:50
#"London By Night" (Carroll Coates) – 3:50
#"Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell) – 2:55
#"Blue Hawaii" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 2:44
#"It's Nice to go Trav'ling" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:52
#: "Cd reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1958 release:"
#"Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:14
#"South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:50
#"I Love Paris" (Cole Porter) – 1:49

Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - Vocals
* Billy May - Arranger, Conductor

References