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All Alone (1962)

Where the lyrics of All Alone take you, and where it was really made.

All Alone was Sinatra's first studio album since 1950 to miss the U.S. Top Twenty, and it was first planned under a different title.

Key places

Recorded in Los Angeles (1962)

Recording site Los Angeles — The album was recorded in Los Angeles over three days, from 15 to 17 January 1962, under arranger and conductor Gordon Jenkins. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• All Alone: twenty-seventh studio album by Frank Sinatra
• Released October 1962
• Collection of waltzes, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins
• All tracks are torch songs, hence the lonely name of the album
• Eleven tracks on the original release: six on side one, five on side two
• Five tracks written by Irving Berlin
• Personnel: Frank Sinatra on vocals, Gordon Jenkins as arranger and conductor

Background

• Originally to be titled Come Waltz with Me
• Title and specially written title song dropped before release
• Album remained a stately collection of waltzes despite the change
• Original title track included as a bonus track on the 1992 CD reissue, not on the 1962 release

Recording

• Recorded January 15–17, 1962 in Los Angeles

Cover

• Cover is a trimmed portion of a painting that hung in Sinatra's Palm Springs home

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants.
• Began singing professionally as a teenager with the Hoboken Four, winning Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
• Joined Harry James's band in 1939, then Tommy Dorsey's band, before going solo in 1942.

Career

• Signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and became a major star of the bobby-soxer era.
• Signed with Capitol Records in 1953; collaborated with arranger Nelson Riddle on albums such as In the Wee Small Hours and Songs for Swingin' Lovers!.
• Founded Reprise Records in 1960, releasing albums including September of My Years and the hit single "My Way".
• Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity (1953).
• Estimated to have sold around 150 million records worldwide.
• Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.
• Died May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Reappraisal

• Album stayed a stately collection of waltzes even after the planned title and title song were dropped
• Its sound stayed consistent from start to finish, with all tracks in the torch song style
• Five of the eleven tracks were written by Irving Berlin, making his songs the core of the set

Records

• Released October 1962
• Did not make the U.S. Top Twenty
• First Sinatra studio album since 1950 to miss the U.S. Top Twenty
• Earlier title Come Waltz with Me and its title song were dropped before release
• Gordon Jenkins arranged and conducted all the tracks
• Frank Sinatra handled all the vocals with Jenkins on arrangement and conducting
• Original release had eleven tracks in total
• The 1992 CD reissue added the original title track as a bonus track, which was not on the 1962 release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Originally to be titled Come Waltz with Me, with a specially written title song
• Title song was dropped before release, and it was later added as a bonus track on the 1992 CD reissue
• All tracks are torch songs, which is the reason for the lonely album name
• Album was made under a planned title that was changed before release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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