Michael’s Bobby Darin Blog

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 & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind (Atco 33-126, February 1961)
CD Release: Atlantic 90484, 9/21/1990
Recording Dates: August 13, 14, 17, 1960, Los Angeles, CA
Producer: Ahmet Ertegun
Engineer: Bill Putnam
Arrangements: Billy May
Musicians: Billy May (cond)
AUG 13, 14-John Best, Dick Cathcart, Manny Klein (tp); Ed Kusby, Bill Schaefer, Elmer Schneider (tb); Chuck Gentry, Skeets Herfurt, Eddie […]

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Bobby Darin: Winners (Atco 33-167, June 1964)
CD Release: Collectors’ Choice CCM-403, 4/6/2004
Recording Dates: Feb. 1-2, 1960, Los Angeles, CA
Producers: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun
Arrangements: Bobby Scott
Musicians: Bobby Scott (cond, p)
FEB 1-Larry Bunker (vib); Howard Roberts (g); Joe Mondragon (b); Ronnie Zito (d); Jack Costanzo (cga).
FEB 2-Larry Bunker (vib); Howard Roberts (g); Joe Mondragon (b); Ronnie Zito […]

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Bobby Darin: That’s All (Atco 33-104, March 1959)
CD Release: Atlantic 82627, 6/24/1994
Recording Dates: December 19, 22, 24, 1958, NYC
Producers: Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun, Jerry Wexler
Engineers: Tom Dowd, Carl Lustig, Herb Kaplan, Heinz Kubicka
Arrangements: Richard Wess
Musicians: Richard Wess (cond)
DEC 19-Joe Cabot, Jimmy Nottingham, Bernie Privin, Doc Severinsen (tp); Morton Bullman, Harry DiVito, Bob McGarity, Frank Rehak […]

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Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles (Atco 33-140, March 1962)
CD Release: Collectors’ Choice CCM-401, 3/9/2004
Recording Dates: November 7, 8, 10, 14, 1961, Los Angeles, CA
Producer: Ahmet Ertegun
Arrangements: Jimmie Haskell
Musicians: Jimmie Haskell (cond, p?); Plas Johnson, Nino Tempo (sax); Red Callender (b); Earl Palmer (d); Darlene Love, the Blossoms (backing vocs).
Side 1:
What’d I Say (Ray Charles) (November […]

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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: The 25th Day of December (Atco 33-125, October 24, 1960)
CD Release: Atlantic 91772, 10/25/1991
Recording Dates: August 19-21, 1960 in Los Angeles, CA.
Producer: Ahmet Ertegun
Engineer: Bill Putnam
Arrangements: Bobby Scott
Musicians: Bobby Scott (cond), other details unknown.
Original LP Sequence:
Side 1:
O Come All Ye Faithful (August 19)
Poor Little Jesus (August 20)
Child of God (August 21)
Baby Born Today […]

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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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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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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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