Swingin the Standards

Bobby Darin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 11, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Fontana
• ASIN: B00000IP9S
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't Rain on My Parade

2. Breaking Point

3. It's Today

4. After You've Gone

5. The Shadow of Your Smile

6. The Other Half of Me

7. It's Only a Paper Moon

8. Talk to the Animals

9. I Believe in You

10. Lover, Come Back to Me

11. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

12. Silver Dollar

13. Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong

14. Try to Remember

15. I Will Wait for You

16. After Today

17. Cute

18. Mame

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bobby Darin: A Great Collection From A True Legend, July 10, 2004

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bix lang "pastafagiole" (Davenport, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swingin the Standards (Audio CD)

What more can be said of the late, great Bobby Darin? If you like classic pop ballad singers, listen to Bobby sing "Try To Remember" or "After You've Gone." If you like swing, well, any uptempo tune from this collection is sufficient proof that had Darin lived he would have blown by Tony Bennett and saddled right up next to Sinatra. He possessed enormous and genuine talent, charisma, and a magical touch with every genre of music. This collection is one of the all-time great compilations of popular song. What a shame the man died so young.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Darin Channels Jolson, August 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Swingin the Standards (Audio CD)

This album is a very generous sampling of the Bobby Darin treatment of some Tin Pan Alley standards. I think "Liza" by the Gershwins is the very best reason to buy the recording: Bobby sounds as if he's captured an updated spirit of Al Jolson. Admittedly, you have to be a Darin fan to want this album--if you're a Darin novice, start with "That's All," "This is Darin," and "Great Gentlemen of Song" first--then this one. It's terrible that Darin died at 37, or he'd be out-Bennetting Tony Bennett today, and duetting with Ray Charles too.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Bobby Darin Fans Only, October 8, 2005

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Joseph T. Higgins (Bronx, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swingin the Standards (Audio CD)

Bobby Darin sings balads on this CD, and sang it like no other singer in his day. He was unique and an original, and ALL the songs on this album proove this. Get this album and you will enjoy every song as I did. I still can not believe that this great talent died so young. We only have his songs with his incredible singing ability to remember him by, and I am thankful for this.