- Audio Cassette (5 Nov 1991)
- Format: Import
- Label: Warner Bros / Wea
- ASIN: B000002LUR
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Ring-A-Ding Ding |
| 2. Let's Fall in Love |
| 3. Be Careful, It's My Heart |
| 4. Foggy Day |
| 5. Fine Romance |
| 6. In the Still of the Night |
| 7. Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) |
| 8. When I Take My Sugar to Tea |
| 9. Let's Face the Music and Dance |
| 10. You'd Be So Easy to Love |
| 11. You and the Night and the Music |
| 12. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm |
| 13. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [*] |
| 14. Last Dance [*] |
| 15. Second Time Around [*] |
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
"Ring a ding ding" represented the first album of Sinatra's new Reprise label in 1961. For his Reprise debut Sinatra wisely decided to record an album of mid tempo swingers rather than kick off the new label with a ballad set. Whilst not being the best swing album Frank ever recorded this is a respectable debut for his Reprise Tenure. Another reviewer stated that Nelson Riddle arranged the album..he didn't,the arrangements are largely handled by Johnny mandel. To be fair,by listening to the album it's an easy mistake to make as mandel's arrangements and style are very similar to that of Riddle's, much more so than other arrangers Sinatra worked with over the years.
The title track written by the dream team of Van huesen/Cahn is a great swing track and although not as good as some of their best tracks it's a catchy upbeat number which gets better with every listen. "Let's fall in love" and "Be careful it's my heart" "Ive got my love to keep me warm" and "The Coffee song" are also great tracks.
For interest Johnny mandel would later on in the 70's and 80's go on to work with another Sinatra cohort in Quincy jones - working on albums by Michael Jackson and George Benson with mandel writing melodies and handling arrangements !
Whilst not being amongst the most essential Sinatra albums, iIt's far from the worst albums Sinatra ever recorded - "Ring a ding ding" is definitely worth adding to your collection !
The title track written by the dream team of Van huesen/Cahn is a great swing track and although not as good as some of their best tracks it's a catchy upbeat number which gets better with every listen. "Let's fall in love" and "Be careful it's my heart" "Ive got my love to keep me warm" and "The Coffee song" are also great tracks.
For interest Johnny mandel would later on in the 70's and 80's go on to work with another Sinatra cohort in Quincy jones - working on albums by Michael Jackson and George Benson with mandel writing melodies and handling arrangements !
Whilst not being amongst the most essential Sinatra albums, iIt's far from the worst albums Sinatra ever recorded - "Ring a ding ding" is definitely worth adding to your collection !
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Ring-A-Ding-Ding was Sinatra's first album for his own Reprise label, after nearly a decade of recording unsurpassable albums for Capitol.
Tipping a wink to his former label this album finds Sinatra recording a swinging, big band collection of mainly mid-tempo numbers, conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle (enough said). As such the album is very similar to those recorded in the preceeding years, such as "Songs For Swinging Lover", "Sinatra's Swingin' Session" etc. Which is not a bad thing - in fact it is a positively good thing. Later Reprise albums would find the quality of material and singing decline, especially as the 1960s ended.
The newer versions of previously recored classics ("Foggy Day") don't beat the Capitol originals, a trend that continued on subsequent Reprise recordings. There are enough other new songs however to make this an enjoyable album and, basically, if you liked swinging Sinatra at Capitol then you'll like this. The arrangements are slightly brasher, the scope of songs more eclectic (Coffee Song) and the recording quality slightly inferior to that offered by the later Capitol records (is it me or do some of those late-era Capitol recordings sound better - in pure hi-fi terms - than most of the music recorded today?)
Tipping a wink to his former label this album finds Sinatra recording a swinging, big band collection of mainly mid-tempo numbers, conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle (enough said). As such the album is very similar to those recorded in the preceeding years, such as "Songs For Swinging Lover", "Sinatra's Swingin' Session" etc. Which is not a bad thing - in fact it is a positively good thing. Later Reprise albums would find the quality of material and singing decline, especially as the 1960s ended.
The newer versions of previously recored classics ("Foggy Day") don't beat the Capitol originals, a trend that continued on subsequent Reprise recordings. There are enough other new songs however to make this an enjoyable album and, basically, if you liked swinging Sinatra at Capitol then you'll like this. The arrangements are slightly brasher, the scope of songs more eclectic (Coffee Song) and the recording quality slightly inferior to that offered by the later Capitol records (is it me or do some of those late-era Capitol recordings sound better - in pure hi-fi terms - than most of the music recorded today?)
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Ring a Ding Ding" was Frank Sinatra's first album for Reprise, his own label. The album, made during the heyday of the Rat Pack (hence the title, one of Sinatra's favorite pet phrases during this period), is different from Sinatra's Columbia records in that there is no attempt at thematic unity. The main arranger is Johnny Mandel, the former trombonist for not only Jimmy Dorsey but also Count Basie, who was a hot young jazz-based arranger and conductor. Mandel does most of the arrangements (Skip Martin, Nelson Riddle, and Dick Reynolds do the rest). What is being sold here are not saloon songs or swing music but rather pure and simply Sinatra at the top of the heap. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the title track just for Sinatra and it sets the brassy, swaggering (okay, outright arrogant) tone of the album. For me the quintessential Sinatra song on the album is the Gershwin tune "A Foggy Day." I also like both of the Cole Porter covers, "In the Still of the Night" and "You'd Be So Easy to Love," which display the same cool assurance. This explains why the man would even try singing "When I Take My Sugar To Tea." "Ring a Ding Ding" made it to #4 on the Billboard Pop Charts. All things considered this ends up being an above average Sinatra album from the Reprise years when he was in his prime, although it falls short of being a true classic (i.e., good but not on my list of 10 essential Sinatra albums). Be aware that there is also a reissue version of this album with three bonus tracks.
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