Swinging All The Way With Frances Faye (Remastered) Frances Faye

• 1 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 03:15
• 2 It's All Right With Me 03:43
• 3 Love For Sale 03:15
• 4 So In Love 03:11
• 5 Should I 02:30
• 6 Them Who Has Gets 02:42
• 7 There Will Never Be Another You 02:17
• 8 Miss Otis Regrets 02:30
• 9 Everything Happens To Me 03:55
• 10 More Than You Know 03:55
• 11 That's All 03:52
• 12 Don't Worry 'bout Me 03:06
• Total Runtime 38:11

Info zu Swinging All The Way With Frances Faye (Remastered)

Swinging All the Way with Frances Faye is a 1962 jazz vocal album by American singer and pianist Frances Faye. Known for her bold and theatrical style, Faye delivers a dynamic performance on this record, blending elements of jazz, swing, and vocal pop. The album features arrangements and conducting by Marty Paich, who leads three distinct orchestras, providing a rich and varied musical backdrop to Faye's expressive vocals.

Unfairly compartmentalised with the many “easy listening” female artists of the 1950’s, Frances Faye had in fact started her singing career at the age of 15 way back in the 1930’s. She had spent many years singing and playing piano on stage and in night clubs, writing much of her own material and even composing a song for the Andrews Sisters! She is perhaps best remembered for her outrageous night club routines which contained large slices of sexual innuendo which was to influence the likes of Bette Midler many years later. Moving from Capitol Records to Bethlehem her material became less commercial but more interesting to the jazz listener! She made her last significant album in 1964 but continued her stage work until way into the 1980’s.

Frances Faye, vocals
Russell Garcia, conductor, arrangements
Marty Paich(arr, conductor
Cappy Lewis, trumpet
Frank Rosolino, trombone
Tommy Pederson, trombone
Lloyd Ulyate, trombone
Tommy Shepard, trombone
Kenny Shroyer, baritone trombone
Chuck Gentry, baritone saxophone
Paul Smith, piano
Tony Rizzi, guitar
Tony Reyes, double bass
Milt Holland, drums
Mike Pacheco, bongos
Frank Guerrero, congas
Dick Nash, trumpet
Harry Betts, trombone
James Henderson, trombone
Gail Martin, baritone saxophone
Plas Johnson, tenor saxophone
Irv Cottler, drums
Jack Costanzo, bongos
Ralph Hansell, percussion

Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, December 12, 14 ,15 & 16, 1960 and November 20, 21 & 24, 1961.

Digitally remastered

Frances Faye
(November 4, 1912 – November 8, 1991) was an American cabaret and show tune singer and pianist. Born to a working-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, she was a second cousin of actor Danny Kaye. From 1940–1951 Spivy ran her own nightclub, Spivy's Roof, on New York's East 57th Street. The club was noted for its tolerance of gay performers and patrons; Spivy herself was a lesbian in private life. Among the artists who performed there were Frances Faye, Mabel Mercer, Moms Mabley, Thelma Carpenter, Paul Lynde, Martha Raye, Bea Arthur, Liberace, and actor-magician Fred Keating.

Born as Frances Cohen, Faye's showbiz career began at the age of 15 in nightclubs where she first became a star. She appeared in one Bing Crosby film; Double or Nothing singing "After You". She wrote the song "Well All Right" recorded by the Andrews Sisters. Faye made her solo recording debut in 1936. Her act became famous for including double entendres and references to homosexuality and lesbianism. Faye herself was bisexual and hinted at this frequently in her act; she would often playfully alter pronouns in love songs or weave her girlfriend's name into lyrics of song. For instance, she inserted "it's a Teri, Teri day" into "The Man I Love" and on national television sang "why do all the boys treat Teri so right" in "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate."

She recorded about a dozen albums for many different record labels, including Capitol Records and Imperial Records and jazz labels Verve Records and Bethlehem Records.

Faye was married twice in the 1940s. In the late 1950s, a woman named Teri Shepherd became her manager and lifelong partner. Shepherd discussed her relationship with Faye in Bruce Weber's 2001 film Chop Suey.

Faye was arrested in 1955 on a narcotics charge in Los Angeles; police asserted that she and the three men arrested at the same time possessed marijuana.

During in the 1960s, Faye suffered a number of health related problems brought on by a hip accident in 1958. She nevertheless continued to tour into the early 1980s. Peter Allen credited her as a major influence and had Faye sing the vocals on the track "Just a Gigolo (Schoner Gigolo)" on his 1974 album, Continental American.

She returned to film in 1978, playing an elderly cocaine-sniffing madam in the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. She retired shortly afterwards. At the time of her death in 1991, aged 79, she was living with Shepherd.

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