It Might as Well Be Swing
- It Might as Well Be Swing
Infobox Album | Name = It Might As Well Be Swing
Type = Album
Artist = Frank Sinatra
| Released = 1964
Recorded = June 9–June 12, 1964, Los Angeles
Genre = Jazz, Classic pop
Length = 27:22
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Sonny Burke
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zkdjvwpva9tk link]
Last album = "America, I Hear You Singing" (1964)
This album = "It Might as Well Be Swing"
(1964)
Next album = "12 Songs of Christmas" (1964)
"It Might as Well Be Swing" is a 1964 (see 1964 in music) album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the Count Basie orchestra. It was Sinatra's first studio recording with Quincy Jones.
This was Sinatra and Basie's second collaboration after 1963's "".
Sinatra's cover version of "Hello Dolly" on the album features a new second verse improvised by Sinatra, which pays tribute to Louis Armstrong, who had topped the Billboard charts with his own version of the song earlier in 1964.
It Might as Well Be Swing is a reference to the title of the well known jazz standard It Might as Well Be Spring.
Track listing
#"Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 2:30
#"I Wish You Love" (Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet, Albert Beach) – 2:56
#"I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) – 2:21
#"More (Theme From "Mondo Cane")" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Marcello Ciorciolini, Norman Newell) – 3:05
#"I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson) – 3:00
#"Hello, Dolly!" (Jerry Herman) – 2:45
#"I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt) – 2:25
#"The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:10
#"The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) – 3:10
#"Wives and Lovers" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:50
Personnel
* Frank Sinatra - Vocals
* Count Basie and his Orchestra
* Quincy Jones - Arranger, Conductor
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