Love Swings
Love Swings | ||||
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Studio album by Bobby Darin | ||||
Released | July 1961 | |||
Recorded | March 21–23, 1961 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 29:30 | |||
Label | Atco | |||
Producer | Ahmet Ertegün | |||
Bobby Darin chronology | ||||
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Love Swings is an album of standards by American singer Bobby Darin, released in 1961. It remained on the charts for only ten weeks and peaked at number 92.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
In his Allmusic review, critic JT Griffith called the album "one of the most unheralded and under appreciated Bobby Darin albums" and is Darin's "most interesting conceptual approach to an album. The sequence of songs takes the listener on an emotional journey from love's first stirrings and its delirious heights to the first disillusionments and melancholy lows. Love Swings plays like two separate albums. While both sides are cohesive thematically, it is hard to listen to the sweet swinging sounds of side one and then eagerly flip to the more haunting and moody songs on side two. This is one of Bobby Darin's most sophisticated albums"[1]
Track listing
- "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 1:49
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:18
- "How About You?" (Ralph Freed, Burton Lane) – 2:03
- "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 1:44
- "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 2:13
- "No Greater Love" (Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:23
- "In Love in Vain" (Kern, Leo Robin) – 3:07
- "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:13
- "Something to Remember You By" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:01
- "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 2:42
- "Spring Is Here" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:47
- "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:10
Personnel
- Bobby Darin – vocals
- Richard Behrke – piano
- Al Hendrickson – guitar
- Joe Mondragon – bass guitar
- Larry Bunker, Ronnie Zito – drums
- Torrie Zito – arranger, conductor
References
- ^ a b c Griffith, JT. "Love Swings > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
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- Bobby Darin
- That's All
- This Is Darin
- For Teenagers Only
- The 25th Day of December
- Two of a Kind
- Love Swings
- Twist with Bobby Darin
- Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles
- Things and Other Things
- Oh! Look at Me Now
- You're the Reason I'm Living
- It's You or No One
- 18 Yellow Roses
- Earthy!
- Golden Folk Hits
- Winners
- From Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie
- Venice Blue
- Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile
- In a Broadway Bag (Mame)
- If I Were a Carpenter
- Inside Out
- Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Dolittle
- Bobby Darin Born Walden Robert Cassotto
- Commitment
- The Bobby Darin Story
- Aces Back to Back
- "Splish Splash"
- "Early in the Morning"
- "Queen of the Hop"
- "Dream Lover"
- "Mack the Knife"
- "Beyond the Sea"
- "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey"
- "Beachcomber"
- "Artificial Flowers"
- "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"
- "Multiplication"
- "What'd I Say"
- "Things"
- "You're the Reason I'm Living"
- "18 Yellow Roses"
- "If I Were a Carpenter"
- "Darlin' Be Home Soon"
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- Beyond the Sea (film)
- Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical
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