My Baby Loves to Swing

My Baby Loves to Swing
My Baby Loves to Swing
Studio album by Vic Damone
Released	January 1963
Genre	Traditional pop; vocal pop;
Length	29:08
Label	Capitol
Producer	Jack Marshall
Vic Damone chronology

My Baby Loves to Swing is the seventeenth studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released by Capitol Records in January 1963.^[1] It was produced by Jack Marshall.

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by EMI Music Distribution in 1997 as a double album pairing it with Damone's 1962 debut with Capitol, Linger Awhile with Vic Damone.^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]

AllMusic's Nick Dedina thought the album finds a middle ground between the ones Nelson Riddle and Billy May crafted for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, and Damone's smooth delivery contrasts nicely with Marshall's charts^[1]

Billboard praised Damone for using a variety of stylings (smooth ballads, bossa nova, blues) serenades with "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "My Melancholy Baby", and other strong oldies.^[4]

Cashbox stated that the tunes are rendered in a variety of danceable rhythms including Bossa Nova, cha-cha and waltz^[5]

In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald describes as it gets an odd (but not unappealing) military press roll and lots of modulations, ending with Damone socking in to a real high note. There are also two Cahn and Van Heusen originals, which sound like leftover from a Sinatra concept album.^[6]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'm Nobody's Baby"	Milton Ager, Benny Davis, Lester Santly	2:15
2.	"Everybody Loves My Baby"	Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams	2:30
3.	"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (From Warner Bros. Pictures Hard to Get)"	Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren	1:46
4.	"Alright, Okay, You Win"	Sid Wyche, Sidney Wyche	2:24
5.	"My Melancholy Baby"	William Frawley, George A. Norton	2:22
6.	"Let's Sit This One Out"	Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen	3:05

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Baby Loves to Swing"	Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen	2:48
2.	"My Baby Just Cares for Me (From the United Artists film Whoopee!}"	Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn	2:09
3.	"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"	Louis Jordan, Billy Austin	2:13
4.	"Baby, Baby All the Time"	Bobby Troup	2:31
5.	"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"	Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams	1:56
6.	"Make This a Slow Goodbye"	Frank J. Myers, Jack Sher, Joe Sher	2:51

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Vic Damone – My Baby Loves to Swing: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
^ Vic Damone – Linger Awhile with Vic Damone/My Baby Loves to Swing at AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 392. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
^ "Pop Spotlight: My Baby Loves to Swing". Billboard. Vol. 75, no. 1. January 5, 1963. p. 25.
^ "Cashbox Album Popular Picks Of The Week Review: My Baby Loves to Swing". Cash Box. Vol. 24, no. 15. January 5, 1963. p. 22.
^ Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 133. ISBN 9780375421495.

[AMG-1] Vic Damone – My Baby Loves to Swing: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-10-01.

[2] Vic Damone – Linger Awhile with Vic Damone/My Baby Loves to Swing at AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2023.

[3] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 392. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 31 August 2024.

[:0-4] "Pop Spotlight: My Baby Loves to Swing". Billboard. Vol. 75, no. 1. January 5, 1963. p. 25.

[:132-5] "Cashbox Album Popular Picks Of The Week Review: My Baby Loves to Swing". Cash Box. Vol. 24, no. 15. January 5, 1963. p. 22.

[WF-6] Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 133. ISBN 9780375421495.

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