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My Baby Loves to Swing
1963 studio album by Vic Damone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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My Baby Loves to Swing is the seventeenth studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released by Capitol Records in January 1963.[1] It was produced by Jack Marshall.
The album was released on compact disc by EMI Music Distribution in 1997 as a double album pairing it with Damone's 1962 debut with Capitol, Linger Awhile with Vic Damone.[2]
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Reception
AllMusic's Nick Dedina thought the album "finds a middle ground between the ones Nelson Riddle and Billy May crafted for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, and Damone's smooth delivery contrasts nicely with Marshall's charts"[1]
Billboard praised Damone "for using a variety of stylings (smooth ballads, bossa nova, blues) serenades with "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "My Melancholy Baby", and other strong oldies".[5]
Cashbox stated that "the tunes are rendered in a variety of danceable rhythms including Bossa Nova, cha-cha and waltz"[6]
Nigel Hunter of Disc notes "He works throught well-known standards ... and sings clearly with mellow tone and impeccable pharsing"[4]
In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald describes as it gets an odd (but not unappealing) military press roll and lots of modulations, ending with Damone socking in to a real high note. There are also two Cahn and Van Heusen originals, which sound like leftover from a Sinatra concept album.[7]
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Track listing
Side one
Side two
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References
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