Album
Where Are You?
Frank Sinatra With Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
1957 · Jazz, Pop
14 collectors on Gatefold own this
Where Are You? is a Pop album by Frank Sinatra With Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, originally released in 1957. On Gatefold: 81 pressings tracked, owned by 14 collectors.
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Frank Sinatra's reputation as a masterfully melancholy "saloon singer" rests largely on the torch song concept albums he made for Capitol Records in the '50s. 1957's <i>Where Are You?</i> was the first of those to go without the angular, artful arrangements of Nelson Riddle, instead putting Gordon Jenkins in the arranger's chair. Where Nelson dramatically offset Sinatra's voice with almost pointillist orchestral applications, Jenkins puts a plush pillow under the singer, letting Sinatra luxuriate in the sonic surroundings. Nevertheless, the songs themselves include some of the most haunting in Sinatra's catalog. "Laura" is a standard that was written more than a decade earlier by Johnny Mercer for a film of the same name, but it was defined forevermore by this recording. On "I'm a Fool to Want You," Sinatra plumbs the emotional depths of obsession and desire. Song for song, <i>Where Are You?</i> may bear a slightly lighter feel than 1955's epochal <i>In the Wee Small Hours</i>, but then, so does anything short of <i>Apocalypse Now</i>.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Where Are You?
- A2The Night We Called It A Day
- A3I Cover The Waterfront
- A4Maybe You'll Be There
- A5Laura
- A6Lonely Town
Side B
- B1Autumn Leaves
- B2I'm A Fool To Want You
- B3I Think Of You
- B4Where Is The One
- B5There's No You
- B6Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Sound DNA
- Pop
- Traditional Pop
- lush
- melancholic
- nocturnal
Sinatra's seventh studio album for Capitol, and the first album Sinatra recorded at Capitol without Nelson Riddle, as well as the first to be recorded in stereo as well as mono. The 12-song mono LP was originally released on in the U.S. on September 2, 1957, with an abridged 9-track stereo version released as a reel-to-reel tape in January 1958. The first stereo LPs were issued in February 1959 (with one or two tracks removed). Unabridged 12-song stereo LPs did not appear until late 1971.
The mono and stereo recordings were entirely separate, using different microphone and recording setups, and feature different edits. One song, "I Cover the Waterfront," was recorded in mono only, apparently due to technical problems during the session.
Recorded April 10, April 29, and May 1, 1957, at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.
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Related EPs:
Where Are You? (Part 1)
Where Are You? (Part 2)
Where Are You? (Part 3)
Where Are You? (Part 4)
Where Are You? (Parts 1 & 2) (US 1957) (opens in a new tab)
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Frank SinatraPERFORMER, VOCALS VOCALS
- Gordon JenkinsARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR, ARRANGED BY
- Gordon Jenkins And His OrchestraFEATURING , ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA
- Nelson RiddleARRANGED BY, CONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR, ARRANGED BY
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