America, I Hear You Singing(album)

America, I Hear You Singing

General information

Artist

Frank Sinatra

Arranger

Release date(s)

1964

Recorded

January 2–February 4, 1964

Record Label

Reprise

Producer

Sonny Burke

Product code

Track information

Discs

1

Total tracks

10

Length

32:29

Singles

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Reception

Allmusic

2½ / 5^[1]

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America, I Hear You Singing is an album released in 1964 that featured not only Frank Sinatra, but also Bing Crosby and Fred Waring and his Singers. It is Sinatra's forty-first studio album.

The album's production was started due to Sinatra's friend and political associate John F. Kennedy being assassinated during his years in the Presidency. The album follows a theme of talking about the beauty of the United States of America.

Track listing Edit

All tracks feature Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

1. "America, I Hear You Singing (arr Tom Scott)"
2. "This Is A Great Country" (Bing Crosby, arr. Dick Reynolds / Jack Halloran)
3. "The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Frank Sinatra, arr. Nelson Riddle; Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 3:39
4. "The Hills of Home" (arr. Roy Ringwald)
5. "This Land is Your Land" (Bing Crosby, arr. Dick Reynolds/ Jack Halloran)
6. "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor (arr. Roy Ringwald)"
7. "You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith" (Frank Sinatra, arr. Dick Reynolds / Jack Halloran; Francis Burke, Hughie Prince, Don Raye) - 3:46
8. "A Home In the Meadow" (Bing Crosby, arr. Hawley Ades)
9. "Early American" (Frank Sinatra, arr. Nelson Riddle; Burke, Van Heusen) - 3:34
10. "You Never Had It So Good" (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, arr. Dick Reynolds / Jack Halloran; Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:01
11. "Let Us Break Bread Together" (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, arr. Roy Ringwald) - 3:39
12. "The Stars And Stripes Forever" (arr. Harry Simeone)

Reception Edit

Allmusic gave the album a low score of only two and a half stars out of five. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic claimed that "the album isn't an engaging, suffering from hackneyed arrangements and dull songs."^[1]

America, I Hear You Singing peaked at #116 on the Billboard 200 charts in 1964.^[2]

Personnel Edit

References Edit

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Allmusic review
2. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/america-i-hear-you-singing-r66453/charts-awards