Interview: Bobby Darin arranger Perry Botkin

September 10th, 2007

When you hear Bobby Darin swinging Count Basie-style on the “In a Broadway Bag” LP, this is largely thanks to arranger/conductor Perry Botkin. Botkin came into the project in the spring of 1966, with an intense desire to emulate the great Basie recordings he admired so much. One listen to the first five tunes on […]

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Bobby Darin CD Profile: Sings the Shadow of Your Smile/In a Broadway Bag

August 16th, 2007

Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile (Atlantic 8121, April 1966)
CD Release: Edsel EDSS1012, 07/10/2007; Disky HR 902614, 12/14/2004
Recording Dates: December 13-15, 1965, Los Angeles, CA; February 4, 1966, Las Vegas, NV; March 23, 1966, Los Angeles, CA
Producer: Bobby Darin
Engineer: Walt Payne
Arrangements: Richard Wess*, Shorty Rogers**
Musicians:
DEC 13-Richard Wess (cond); Conte Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Al […]

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Bobby Darin: Commitment/Rare Darin CD now available!

August 11th, 2007

The Edsel label has announced a street date of 09/10/2007 for the new “Bobby Darin: Commitment/Rare Darin” 2-on-1 CD. Bobby Darin’s historic “Commitment” LP, never before issued on CD, is finally available. Originally released in 1969 on Darin’s own Direction label, under the name “Bob Darin,” “Commitment” is an intensely personal, beautifully written and performed […]

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Bobby Darin: Jingle Jangle Jungle (mp3)

August 11th, 2007

In honor of the release of Bobby Darin’s historic “Born Walden Robert Cassotto” album on CD for the very first time, I have just added a new song from that record to the DarinLand page on MySpace: “Jingle Jangle Jungle.”
To hear it, go to…
http://www.myspace.com/darinland

Bobby Darin: Sings Doctor Dolittle/Born Walden Robert Cassotto CD

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Bobby Darin’s “Commitment” LP on CD for the First Time

July 31st, 2007

The Edsel label in the UK will continue its program of fantastic Bobby Darin re-issues in September, with the release of the historic “Bob Darin: Commitment” LP from 1969 (never before available on CD). This was the second of Darin’s 2 albums on his own Direction label, and the only album he ever released under the […]

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New Bobby Darin CD: “Sings Doctor Dolittle/Born Walden Robert Cassotto”

July 30th, 2007

The good news coming from UK label Demon/Edsel just never seems to stop. First, they gift Bobby Darin fans with re-issues of the “Shadow of Your Smile/In a Broadway Bag” and “If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out” 2-on-1 CDs… and now, they’re bringing us a 2-on-1 disc containing the “Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Dolittle” and […]

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2 new Bobby Darin CDs released today!!!

July 17th, 2007

Today is the day: the Edsel label re-issues of Bobby Darin’s classic LPs, “Sings the Shadow of Your Smile,” “In a Broadway Bag,” “If I Were a Carpenter” and “Inside Out” are finally back in print. “Shadow” and “Broadway” are together on one disc, “Carpenter” and “Inside Out” are together on another. And both discs […]

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