Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners

Academy Award Winners

General information

Artist

Frank Sinatra

Arranger

Nelson Riddle

Release date(s)

March 1964
1987
1989

Recorded

January 27–January 28, 1964,

Record Label

Reprise

Producer

Sonny Burke

Product code

Track information

Discs

1

Total tracks

11

Length

32:29

Singles

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Reception

Allmusic

3 / 5

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Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners, or simply, Academy Award Winners is Frank Sinatra's fortieth studio album. Arranged by Nelson Riddle, Academy Award Winners was released under Reprise Records in 1964.

The overall focus of the songs are those that had won the Academy Award for Best Song. The album sports some of Sinatra's famous covers of songs such as "Moon River", "All the Way", and "The Way You Look Tonight". Sinatra also records new arrangements for previously recorded songs such as "The Continental" and "It Might as Well Be Spring."

Track listing

1. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 2:16
2. "Moon River" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:20
3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
4. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 3:46
5. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) - 1:51
6. "Secret Love" (Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 3:54
7. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:53
8. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:26
9. "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad) - 3:14
10. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Webster, Fain) - 3:22
11. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27

Reception

Allmusic gave Academy Award Winners a three out of five star review. Allmusic claimed that the album was "charming and lively," but criticizes the album over how it "plays as a series of individual moments."

Personnel

Peter Hook

Personnel
Gillian Gilbert	Composer
Composer
Stephen Morris	Composer
Nelson Riddle	Arranger, Conductor
Philip K. Scheuer	Liner Notes
Frank Sinatra	Vocals
Bernard Sumner	Composer
Triumph	Composer