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In a recording career lasting 17 years, Bobby Darin spent only three of those years, 1962-1965, signed to Capitol Records. They were busy years for him in the recording studio: he released seven Capitol LPs, five of which made the charts, and 11 Capitol singles, eight of which entered the Billboard Hot 100, two of those, the self-written, country-styled "You're the Reason I'm Living" and "18 Yellow Roses," reaching the Top Ten. Still, his relatively brief Capitol sojourn was not as memorable as his two stints at Atlantic Records, 1958-1961 (on the Atco subsidiary) and 1966-1967, which accounted for his eight other Top Ten hits, including the chart-topping "Mack the Knife." Naturally, however, Capitol has re-compiled its Darin catalog several times over the years, starting with 1966's deceptively titled The Best of Bobby Darin. In 2004, with a film biography and two book biographies imminent, Capitol tried again, and The Legendary Bobby Darin is the label's longest and most comprehensive attempt at a Darin compilation yet, topping out at 70-plus minutes and covering the stylistic bases of the singer's eclectic dabbling in rock & roll (the title song from his 1962 movie If a Man Answers), country (the hits noted above), folk-rock (the Atlantic recording of the Top Ten hit "If I Were a Carpenter"), and, of course, traditional pop. The last actually dominates the collection, with Darin, employing such arrangers as Frank Sinatra stalwart Billy May, turning in his versions of early-'60s show tunes and movie themes like "Once in a Lifetime," "Moon River," and "Hello, Dolly!" To give the collection the appearance of a more complete hits set, live versions of the Atco hits "Beyond the Sea" and "Mack the Knife" have been included, and the album concludes with two previously unreleased live cuts, both recorded in Las Vegas in 1963, the first a hits medley and the other a version of "The Curtain Falls." The result is a respectable effort that still represents only a slice of Darin's recording career.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Anthony Newley, ComposerLyricist - Leslie Bricusse, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Dell Economides, Producer - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Norman Newell, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Marcello Ciorciolini, ComposerLyricist - Riz Ortolani, ComposerLyricist - Nino Oliviero, ComposerLyricist - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Henry Mancini, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Dell Economides, Producer - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Billy May, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Morgan, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Kurt Weill, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - MARC BLITZSTEIN, ComposerLyricist - Bertolt Brecht, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russ Black, Conductor
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Douglas, Producer - Bobby Darin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Wess, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frederick Loewe, ComposerLyricist - Alan Jay Lerner, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jerry Herman, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Dell Economides, Producer - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Billy May, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Maschwitz, ComposerLyricist - Manning Sherwin, ComposerLyricist - Tom Morgan, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Steve Douglas, Producer - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Alexandre Distel, ComposerLyricist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Jack Reardon, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Billy May, Conductor - Tom Morgan, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Billy May, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Morgan, Producer - Joe Bushkin, ComposerLyricist - John De Vries, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Nick Venet, Producer - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Henry Mancini, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Jimmie Haskell, Conductor - Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Nick Venet, Producer - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - James Dell Economides, Producer - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
D. Langdon, ComposerLyricist - Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andre Previn, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Richard Wess, Conductor - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Dell Economides, Producer - Jim Economides, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Antonio DeVita, ComposerLyricist - Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Douglas, Producer - ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Giorgio Calabrese, ComposerLyricist - Harold David Shaper, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Douglas, Producer - ERNIE FREEMAN, Conductor - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Charles Aznavour, ComposerLyricist - Gene Lees, ComposerLyricist - Francoise Dorin, ComposerLyricist - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Jimmie Haskell, Conductor - Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Nick Venet, Producer
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Robert Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bobby Darin, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Nick Venet, Producer - Jack Nitzsche, Conductor
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Bob Crewe, Producer - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Michel Legrand, ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Bhen Lanzaroni, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Crewe, Producer - Tim Hardin, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, Producer, MainArtist - Berry Gordy, Producer, Executive Producer - Joe Porter, Producer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Raim, Composer - Charles Trenet, Composer - Bobby Darin, Composer, MainArtist - Woody Harris, Composer - Jack Lawrence, Composer - Jerry Bock, Composer - Sheldon Harnick, Composer - Bob Norberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Russ Black, Conductor
℗ 2004 Capitol Records, LLC
Gary Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Raynard Miner, ComposerLyricist - JERRY MARCELLINO, Producer - Carl William Smith, ComposerLyricist - Mel Larsen, Producer - Quitman Dennis, Conductor
℗ 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bobby Darin, MainArtist - Sol Weinstein, ComposerLyricist - Russ Black, Conductor
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
In a recording career lasting 17 years, Bobby Darin spent only three of those years, 1962-1965, signed to Capitol Records. They were busy years for him in the recording studio: he released seven Capitol LPs, five of which made the charts, and 11 Capitol singles, eight of which entered the Billboard Hot 100, two of those, the self-written, country-styled "You're the Reason I'm Living" and "18 Yellow Roses," reaching the Top Ten. Still, his relatively brief Capitol sojourn was not as memorable as his two stints at Atlantic Records, 1958-1961 (on the Atco subsidiary) and 1966-1967, which accounted for his eight other Top Ten hits, including the chart-topping "Mack the Knife." Naturally, however, Capitol has re-compiled its Darin catalog several times over the years, starting with 1966's deceptively titled The Best of Bobby Darin. In 2004, with a film biography and two book biographies imminent, Capitol tried again, and The Legendary Bobby Darin is the label's longest and most comprehensive attempt at a Darin compilation yet, topping out at 70-plus minutes and covering the stylistic bases of the singer's eclectic dabbling in rock & roll (the title song from his 1962 movie If a Man Answers), country (the hits noted above), folk-rock (the Atlantic recording of the Top Ten hit "If I Were a Carpenter"), and, of course, traditional pop. The last actually dominates the collection, with Darin, employing such arrangers as Frank Sinatra stalwart Billy May, turning in his versions of early-'60s show tunes and movie themes like "Once in a Lifetime," "Moon River," and "Hello, Dolly!" To give the collection the appearance of a more complete hits set, live versions of the Atco hits "Beyond the Sea" and "Mack the Knife" have been included, and the album concludes with two previously unreleased live cuts, both recorded in Las Vegas in 1963, the first a hits medley and the other a version of "The Curtain Falls." The result is a respectable effort that still represents only a slice of Darin's recording career.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:58
- Main artists: Bobby Darin
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2004 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2018 Capitol Records, LLC
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