Ring-A-Ding Ding!
Reprise Records (1961)
- Let's Face The Music And Dance
- You'd Be So Easy To Love
- You And The Night And The Music
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
- Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (CD bonus track)
- The Last Dance (CD bonus track)
- The Second Time Around (CD bonus track)
- Ring-A-Ding Ding!
- Let's Fall In Love
- Be Careful, It's My Heart
- A Foggy Day (In London Town)
- A Fine Romance
- In The Still Of The Night
- The Coffee Song
- When I Take My Sugar To Tea
The first album recorded on Sinatra's own fledgling label. By this time
in his career, he had already been dubbed The Chairman of the Board
because
of his unrivaled influence in the entertainment industry and numerous
investments. The world was his oyster and he could reach any part of
it aboard one of his three private planes (all generously stocked with three
cases of Jack Daniels and a piano!).
Working with arranger Johnny Mandel, singer and arranger reworked many of Sinatra's old Dorsey and Columbia recordings with a hip 60's sensibility ushered in by a Cahn-Van Heusen song written around what had become Sinatra's trademark exclamation of the time. Although he was still finishing his contract for Capitol Records at the time this album was recorded, the punched-up arrangements and enthusiasm in the singer's readings of these chestnuts is infectious.
Early releases of the compact disc include the recording of Zing! Went
The Strings Of My Heart
—a song which had been lost and only rumored
to exist for nearly 30 years—but the recent 20-bit master disc omits
the extra tracks in favor of the original LP format. The sonic quality of
the 20-bit disc is extraordinary, but the loss of that track and the other
extras is unfortunate.
Recorded on December 19, 20, and 21, 1960.
