Bobby Darin - That's All
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Artist: Bobby DarinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-28
Music Label: East/West Records
Soundtracks:
- Mack the Knife
- Beyond the Sea
- Through a Long and Sleepless Night
- Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
- She Needs Me
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- I'll Remember April
- That's the Way Love Is
- Was There a Call for Me
- Some of These Days
- Where Is the One?
- That's All
Free Music Notes for That's All
Free Music Review: Worth the price for "Beyond The Sea" alone
Hit: 5 Stars
Bobby Darin said one day he'd be just as good as Sinatra, maybe better. Well, if he ever did deliver on that promise, "That's All" was that day.
Ignore the rest of the album. "Beyond the Sea" is so good it's worth the price of the album for that track alone. Darin's performance is energetic, aggressive, and so in the pocket it just could not be topped. Like Sinatra, he makes it sound effortless and smooth, but with a harder edge than Sinatra would have had at that time.
Arranger Richard Wess deserves at least half of the credit for this masterwork of big band recordings. The arrangement is brilliant, subtley building from one muted trumpet theme into a sort of countermelody on saxes, then behind it all shimmering strings. It has great structure and builds excitement beautifully.
The key to this arrangement is contrast: After the first chorus, Wess delivers up an instrumental interlude for Darin that starts with blasting brass, followed by a thundering drum fill, immediately followed by the most lilting and gentle string passage imaginable. Then he hits you over the head again with the brass again, the drums again, then more brass, ending with a hard drum beat followed by the teriffic silence of absolutely nothing. The end of this instrumental passage with it's outrageous dynamics of loud versus soft is the musical equivalent of a freight train stopping on a dime. Just at this moment Darin fills the void with a long "I----- know beyond a doubt". This is exciting music, and Darin can't help but sound great with this kind of backing.
In short, buy the CD. Even if you hate every other track it's worth it. Thankfully, all the uptempo tracks are very good, and are fun to listen to, with Darin belting out lyrics as only he can. He's not as good on the slow numbers but still a very skilled performer all around. All in all you can't lose with this collection.
That's All Poster
Bobby's second album for the Atco label, That's All was an album of standards, an idea that was put forward by his friend and publicist Harriet Wassler. That the idea proved to be a success is beyond doubt; Mack The Knife was a transatlantic chart topper and won the 1959 Grammy Award for Record of the Year (the same year Bobby was named Best New Artist) and enabled Bobby to become one of the few artists to bridge the gap between teenage singles buyers and their album buying parents. The album was a major chjart success too, hitting #7 in the US and the top twenty in the UK.When Bobby Darin released That's All in 1959, he was already famous in the teen market--first as a rock & roll singer-songwriter ("Splish Splash," "Queen of the Hop"), then later as a teen idol (for his gorgeous "Dream Lover"). When he decided to release an album of pop standards aimed at the adult market, however, his label and even teen kingpin Dick Clark told him he was nuts. But Darin, who had a short life expectancy and swore to be "a legend by 25," prevailed. Radio picked up on his Vegas big band take on Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife" and it became one of the biggest hits of the century. Its follow-up, "Beyond the Sea," did nearly as well. Suddenly, Darin was no longer competing with Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell, but with Frank Sinatra. In fact, Darin was the only performer Sammy Davis Jr. refused to follow onstage. You could call this lounge music at its best--but that's faint praise. Simply call it Darin at his best. --Bill Holdship
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