''Softly, as I Leave You'' is a 1964 studio album by American singer
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...
. This album was Sinatra's first tentative attempt to come to terms with
rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from Africa ...
music. Arranged by
Ernie Freeman
Ernest Aaron Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Birth and fam ...
, "Softly, as I Leave You", "Then Suddenly Love" and "Available" are definitely stabs at incorporating rock and roll into Sinatra's middle-of-the-road pop sound, featuring drum kits, backing vocals and keyboards.
The rest of the album is pieced together with leftovers from various early-'60s sessions, from many different arrangers and conductors, giving the album a rather uneven feel.
The title track was the first of at least four attempts to mimic the chart success of Dean Martin's #1 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody", using a driving beat, heavy strings and choral tracks. Sinatra, arranger Ernie Freeman and producer Jimmy Bowen would incorporate the same sound to songs like "When Somebody Loves You", "Tell Her You Love Her (Each Day)" and "Somewhere in Your Heart" with only minor chart success.
Track listing
#"
Emily" (
Johnny Mandel
John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925June 29, 2020) was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Benn ...
,
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallich ...
) – 2:58
#"Here's to the Losers" (
Robert Wells,
Jack Segal
Jack Segal (October 19, 1918 – February 10, 2005) was a pianist and composer of popular American songs, known for writing the lyrics to '' Scarlet Ribbons''. His composition '' May I Come In?'' was the title track for a Blossom Dearie album. ...
) – 3:05
#"
Dear Heart
''Dear Heart'' is a 1964 American romantic-comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page as lonely middle-aged people who fall in love at a hotel convention. It was directed by Delbert Mann, from a screenplay by Tad Mosel. Its theme song "D ...
" (
Jay Livingston
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison, March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a song-writing duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote music and Evans t ...
,
Ray Evans
Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and song-writing duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Living ...
,
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini ( ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini, ; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Award ...
) – 2:43
#"Come Blow Your Horn" (
Sammy Cahn
Samuel Cohen (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993), known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premier ...
,
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.
Life and care ...
) – 3:07
#"Love Isn't Just for the Young" (Bernard Knee, Herb Miller)
[Sinatra, Frank. “Love Isn’t Just for the Young”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Love%20Isn’t%20Just%20For%20the%20Young] – 2:57
#"I Can't Believe I'm Losing You" (
Don Costa
Dominick P. "Don" Costa (June 10, 1925 – January 19, 1983) was an American conductor and record producer. He discovered singer Paul Anka and worked on several hit albums by Frank Sinatra, including ''Sinatra and Strings'' and ''My Way''.
C ...
, Phil Zeller) – 2:43
#"Pass Me By" (
Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.
Life and career
Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, United States, to Eastern European Jewish parents ...
,
Carolyn Leigh
Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come". With ...
) – 2:25
#"
Softly, as I Leave You" (
Hal Shaper
Hal Shaper (Born Harold David Shaper), 18 July 1931 - 8 January 2004) was a South African songwriter. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1955, he travelled to London to begin his five-decade-long musical career during which he worked with and wrote f ...
,
Antonio DeVita,
Giorgio Calabrese
Giorgio Calabrese (28 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was an Italian songwriter and frequent collaborator with French pop music star Charles Aznavour.
Calabrese wrote the original Italian lyrics for the popular song " Softly, as I Leave You", an ...
) – 2:50
#"Then Suddenly Love" (Roy Alfred,
Paul Vance
Joseph Paul Florio (November 4, 1929 – May 30, 2022), known professionally as Paul Vance, was an American songwriter and record producer, primarily from the 1950s until the 1970s.
His most successful song compositions, all written with Lee Poc ...
) – 2:15
#"Available" (Cahn, Ned Wynn, L.B. Marks)
[Sinatra, Frank. “Available”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Available] – 2:47
#"Talk to Me Baby" (
Robert Emmett Dolan
Robert Emmett Dolan (August 3, 1908 - September 26, 1972) was a Broadway conductor, composer, and arranger beginning in the 1920s. He moved on to radio in the 1930s and then went to Hollywood in the early 1940s as a musical director for Paramoun ...
, Mercer) – 3:00
#"The Look of Love" (Cahn, Van Heusen)
[Sinatra, Frank. “The Look of Love”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/The%20Look%20of%20Love] – 2:43
;Notes
*Tracks 1, 3 and 7 recorded on October 3, 1964
*Uncredited Background Singers perform on Tracks 1, 3 and 7-10
[Sinatra, Frank. “Emily”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Emily][Sinatra, Frank. “Dear Heart”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Dear%20Heart]
*The Orchestra on Tracks 1, 3 and 6-7 includes 9 Violins
[Sinatra, Frank. “I Can’t Believe I’m Losing You”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/I%20Can’t%20Believe%20I’m%20Losing%20You][Sinatra, Frank. “Pass Me By”. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Pass%20Me%20By]
*Tracks 2 and 5 recorded on July 31, 1963
[Sinatra, Frank. “Here’s to the Losers”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Here’s%20to%20the%20Losers]
*The Orchestra on Tracks 2, 5 and 8-10 includes 12 Violins
[Sinatra, Frank. “Softly As I Leave You”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Softly%20As%20I%20Leave%20You][Sinatra, Frank. “Then Suddenly Love”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Then%20Suddenly%20Love]
*"Come Blow Your Horn" recorded on January 21, 1963
[Sinatra, Frank. “Come Blow Your Horn”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Come%20Blow%20Your%20Horn]
*Jimmy Van Heusen is also known as James Van Heusen
*The Orchestra on Tracks 4 and 12 includes 10 Violins
*"I Can't Believe I'm Losing You" recorded on April 8, 1964
*Tracks 8-10 recorded on July 17, 1964
*"Talk to Me Baby" recorded on December 3, 1963
*The Orchestra on "Talk to Me Baby" includes 14 Violins
[Sinatra, Frank. “Talk to Me Baby”. Frank Sinatra Sessionography. https://sinatrafamily.com/session/-/-/-/-/0/Talk%20to%20Me%20Baby]
*Robert Emmett Dolan is also known as Robert Dolan
*"The Look of Love" recorded on August 27, 1962
Personnel
Main
*
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...
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vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
(2, 4-6, 11-12, lead on 1, 3, 7-10)
*
Don Costa
Dominick P. "Don" Costa (June 10, 1925 – January 19, 1983) was an American conductor and record producer. He discovered singer Paul Anka and worked on several hit albums by Frank Sinatra, including ''Sinatra and Strings'' and ''My Way''.
C ...
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arranger
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...
(6, 11),
conductor (11)
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Ernie Freeman
Ernest Aaron Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Birth and fam ...
- arranger, conductor (8-10)
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Neal Hefti
Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for ''The Odd Couple'' movie and TV series and for the ''Batman'' TV series.
He began arranging professionally in his ...
- conductor (12)
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Billy May
Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ''The Green Hornet'' (1966), ''The Mod Squad'' (1968), ''Batman'' (with '' Batgirl'' them ...
- arranger (7)
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Marty Paich
Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kento ...
- arranger, conductor (2, 5)
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Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many world-famous vocalists at Capitol Records ...
- arranger (1, 3-4, 6, 12), conductor (1, 3-4, 6-7)
Strings
*LeRoy Collins -
viola
The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...
(2, 5)
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Joe Comfort
Joe Comfort (July 18, 1917 – October 29, 1988) was an American jazz double bassist.
Biography
His mother was born in Mississippi and played the organ during black and white silent movies. His father, George Comfort from Natchez Mississippi tau ...
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string bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...
(4)
*Joseph DiFiore - viola (8-10)
*Joseph DiTullio -
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
(12)
*Justin DiTullio - cello (2, 5, 8-10, 12)
*Alvin Dinkin - viola (1, 3, 7-11)
*Cecil Figelsky - viola (2, 5)
*Eddie Gilbert - string bass (11)
*Anne Goodman - cello (1, 3, 6-10)
*Stanley Harris - viola (2, 4-5, 11-12)
*Allan Harshman - viola (2, 4-5, 12)
*Armand Kaproff - cello (1-3, 5-7)
*Louis Kievman - viola (2, 5)
*Ray Kramer - cello (2, 4-5, 11)
*Edgar Lustgarten - cello (1, 3, 7, 11-12)
*Virginia Majewski - viola (1-3, 5, 7, 11)
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Joe Mondragon
Joe Mondragon (February 2, 1920 – July 1987) was an American jazz bassist.
Early life
Mondragon was born in Antonito, Colorado, and raised in the Española Valley region of New Mexico. Mondragon was of Apache and Hispanic origin.
Career ...
- string bass (2, 5, 8–10)
*Alex Neiman - viola (6, 8-10, 12)
*Gareth Nuttycombe - viola (8-10)
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Ralph Peña - string bass (1, 3, 6-7, 12)
*David Pratt - cello (6)
*Kurt Reher - cello (4, 8-11)
*Paul Robyn - viola (4, 6, 11)
*Nino Rosso - cello (11-12)
*Emmett Sargeant - cello (8-10)
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Eleanor Slatkin
Eleanor Aller (Slatkin) (May 20, 1917 – October 12, 1995) was an American cellist and founding member, with her husband, Felix Slatkin, of the Hollywood String Quartet.
Life and career
Born in New York City, she was the daughter of cellist Gre ...
- cello (2, 4-5)
Horns and Woodwinds
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Harry Betts
Harry Betts (September 15 1922 – July 13 2012) was an American jazz trombonist.
Background
Born in New York and raised in Fresno, California, he was active as a jazz trombonist and played with Stan Kenton's orchestra in the 1950s. He can be hea ...
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trombone
The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...
(12)
*Hoyt Bohannon - trombone (11)
*
Robert Bryant -
trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
(8-10)
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Conte Candoli
Secondo "Conte" Candoli (July 12, 1927 – December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orch ...
- trumpet (2, 5)
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Pete Candoli
Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli; June 28, 1923 – January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television industries.
Car ...
- trumpet (6)
*John Cave -
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...
(1, 3-4, 7, 11)
*Gene Cipriano -
saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...
(1, 3-4, 7),
flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
(4),
woodwinds
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed ...
(1, 3, 7)
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Buddy Collette
William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
Early life
William Marcel Collette was born in L ...
- woodwinds (8–10)
*
Bob Cooper - saxophone,
clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
,
bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...
(2, 5)
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Vincent DeRosa
Vincent Ned DeRosa (October 5, 1920 – July 18, 2022) was an American hornist who served as a studio musician for Hollywood soundtracks and other recordings from 1935 until his retirement in 2008. Because his career spanned over 70 years, duri ...
- French horn (1, 3-4, 7, 11)
*Henry Edison - trumpet (6)
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Don Fagerquist
Donald Alton Fagerquist (February 6, 1927 – January 23, 1974) was a small group, big band, and studio jazz trumpet player from the West Coast of the United States.
Career
Fagerquist was a featured soloist with several major bands, including M ...
- trumpet (4, 12)
*
Chuck Gentry
Charles T. Gentry (December 14, 1911, Belgrade, Nebraska – January 1, 1988, California) was an American jazz saxophonist.
Gentry learned to play clarinet while growing up in Sterling, Colorado, United States, and attended Colorado State Teache ...
- saxophone (1, 3, 7, 11), bass clarinet (11), woodwinds (1, 3, 7)
*Arthur Gleghorn - saxophone, flute (11)
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Conrad Gozzo
Conrad Joseph Gozzo (February 6, 1922October 8, 1964) was an American trumpet player. He was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra at the time of his death.
Early life
Gozzo was born in New Britain, Connecticut on February 6, 1922, ...
- trumpet (12)
*Herman Gunkler - saxophone, flute (12)
*William Hinshaw - French horn (6)
*
Paul Horn - saxophone, flute, clarinet (2, 5)
*Joe Howard - trombone (2, 5)
*Jules Jacob -
oboe
The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range.
A ...
(11), saxophone (11-12), clarinet, bass clarinet (12)
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Plas Johnson
Plas John Johnson Jr. (born July 21, 1931) is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most widely known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme". He also performs on alto and baritone sax ...
- saxophone (1, 3-4, 7, 12), flute (12), clarinet (4), woodwinds (1, 3, 6-7)
*Harry Klee - saxophone (1-5, 7, 11), flute (2, 4-5, 11), clarinet (4), woodwinds (1, 3, 6-7)
*Joe Koch - saxophone, bass clarinet (4, 12), woodwinds (6)
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Ronny Lang
Ronnie Lang (sometimes spelled Ronny; born July 24, 1929) is an American jazz alto saxophonist. His professional début was with Hoagy Carmichael's Teenagers. He also played with Earle Spencer (1946), Ike Carpenter, and Skinnay Ennis (1947). Lan ...
- saxophone, flute (12)
*Richard Leith - trombone (2, 5)
*Cappy Lewis - trumpet (1, 3-4, 6-7)
*Sinclair Lott - French horn (12)
*Arthur Maebe - French horn (12)
*Gail Martin - trombone (6)
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Dick Nash
Richard Taylor Nash (born January 26, 1928) is an American jazz trombonist most associated with the swing and big band genres.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and began playing brass instruments at ten. He became more interested in this a ...
- trombone (2, 4-6, 11-12)
*
Ted Nash - saxophone, flute (2, 5)
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Jack Nimitz
Jack Nimitz (January 11, 1930 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist. He was nicknamed "The Admiral".
Career
A native of Washington, D.C., Nimitz started on clarinet in his early teens before playing alto saxophone. Dur ...
- clarinet (2, 5), saxophone, bass clarinet (2, 5, 11)
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Dick Noel
Richard Noel (May 30, 1927, Brooklyn, New York – October 20, 2017, Escondido, California) was an American band vocalist, jingle singer, and radio and television performer.
Noel sang with the Ray Anthony Orchestra, including on the hit " Count Ev ...
- trombone (4, 11-12)
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Tommy Pederson
Pullman Gerald "Tommy" Pederson (August 15, 1920 – January 16, 1998) was an American trombonist and composer known for his work in jazz, big band, and classical genres.
Career
Pederson performed and recorded with big bands and artists that ...
- trombone (6)
*Richard Perissi - French horn (1-3, 5, 7, 12)
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Al Porcino
Al Porcino (May 14, 1925 – December 31, 2013) was an American lead trumpeter.
He was born in New York, United States. Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, and played in many of the big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Ge ...
- trumpet (2, 5, 12)
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George Roberts - bass trombone (4, 11)
*Willie Schwartz - saxophone (1, 3-4, 7, 11), clarinet (4, 11), flute (4), woodwinds (1, 3, 6-7)
*George Seaberg - trumpet (4)
*Tom Shepard - trombone (4, 6)
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Shorty Sherock
Clarence Francis Cherock known professionally as Shorty Sherock (November 17, 1915 – February 19, 1980) was an American swing jazz trumpeter.
Career
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Sherock attended the Illinois Military ...
- trumpet (4, 6)
*Gene Sherry - French horn (2, 5-6)
*Ken Shroyer - bass trombone (1, 3, 7, 12)
*George Smith - saxophone, clarinet (11)
*Ray Triscari - trumpet (2, 5)
*Champ Webb - woodwinds (6)
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Stu Williamson
Stu Williamson (May 14, 1933 – October 1, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter and valve trombonist. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, Williamson was the younger brother of jazz pianist Claude Williamson.
In 1949, he moved to Los Angeles, whe ...
- trumpet (2, 5, 12)
Other Instrumentalists
*Dale Anderson -
conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...
s,
timpani
Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionall ...
(2, 5)
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Hal Blaine
Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019) was an American drummer and session musician, thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. ...
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drums
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
(8-10)
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Irv Cottler
Irving Cottler (February 13, 1918 – August 8, 1989), Hollywood, Los Angeles based musician was a first-call Drummer / percussionist and original member of The Wrecking Crew. Cottler credits include LOVE, Impossible, Stardust and Unforgettabl ...
- drums (1-3, 5-7, 11-12), chimes (12)
*Aida Dagort -
harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
(4)
*Frank Flynn - timpani,
bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an inter ...
s (12)
*Carl Fortina -
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
(11)
*Gene Garf -
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...
(8-10)
*Bobby Gibbons -
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
(1, 3, 7-11)
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Al Hendrickson
Alton Reynolds Hendrickson (May 10, 1920 – July 19, 2007) was an American jazz guitarist and occasional vocalist.
Biography
When he was five years old, Hendrickson's family moved to California, where he grew up. He played early in his career w ...
- guitar (2, 5, 8-10)
*Kathryn Julye - harp (2, 5-6, 11)
*
Mel Lewis
Melvin Sokoloff (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990), known professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations.
Biography
Early years
Lewis was ...
- drums (4)
*
Bill Miller - piano (All Tracks)
*Verlye Mills - harp (12)
*
Emil Richards
Emil Richards (born Emilio Joseph Radocchia; September 2, 1932 – December 13, 2019) was an American vibraphonist and percussionist.
Biography Musician
Richards began playing the xylophone aged six. In High School, he performed with the Hartfor ...
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percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
(1, 3, 6-11), timpani (4)
*Ray Sherman - piano (1, 3, 7-10)
*Ann Mason Stockton - harp (1, 3, 7)
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Tommy Tedesco
Thomas Joseph Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as The Wrec ...
- guitar (1, 3, 7-10)
*Vincent Terri - guitar (1, 3, 7)
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Al Viola - guitar (1, 3-4, 6-7, 11-12)
References
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1964 albums
Frank Sinatra albums
Albums arranged by Marty Paich
Albums arranged by Nelson Riddle
Albums arranged by Billy May
Reprise Records albums
Albums arranged by Ernie Freeman
Albums conducted by Nelson Riddle
Albums conducted by Neal Hefti
Albums produced by Jimmy Bowen
Albums produced by Sonny Burke