Rendezvous

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:28:48
Personnel includes: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney (vocals); Billy May & His Orchestra. Digitally remastered by Sean Nova (Sonic Mastering, Los Angeles, California). Rendezvous is a truncated, re-sequenced version of the 1958 Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney album Fancy Meeting You Here, initially released on RCA's budget label Camden in 1969. The concept behind Fancy was a combination of romance and travel, with songwriters Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen contributing introductory and concluding versions of "Love Won't Let You Get Away" as well as a tune called "Fancy Meeting You Here," and Cahn writing special lyrics to standards like "How About You?" and "I Can't Get Started" that reflected the late '50s and the public personalities of the two stars. Billy May conducted, and contributed his usual bouncy, ear-catching arrangements\. All of that served as a setting for the always appealing interaction between Crosby and Clooney. The accommodating Crosby had the keys set for Clooney, who as a result gets the best of the material, but the duo's easy informality is what makes the recordings work. The sequencing on the 1969 Rendezvous LP re-release destroyed the story line of the original album, and the abridgment, which lost the first version of "Love Won't Let You Get Away" as well as "Calcutta" and "Isle of Capri," further voided the concept. But the remaining songs still work. ~ William Ruhlmann
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)