This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1962.
The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings is a 1995 box set album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. The release coincided with Sinatra's 80th birthday celebration.
The Sounds of '66 is a 1966 live album by Sammy Davis Jr.,accompanied by Buddy Rich and a big band.
The Shirley Bassey Singles Album is a compilation album released in 1975 by British singer Shirley Bassey.
Live at the Meadowlands is a 2009 live album by the American singer Frank Sinatra,of a 1986 concert at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford,New Jersey.
Let's Face the Music is the sixth Shirley Bassey studio album,released in 1962 and arranged by Nelson Riddle. Kenneth Hume,Shirley Bassey's husband and manager,wrote the sleeve notes for this album,in which he gives an insight into how this album came to be:"When Vic Lewis booked Nelson Riddle for a tour with Shirley,we were all very excited;being great fans of Nelson Riddle's from way back...so when someone suggested them doing an LP together,we thought that this would not be possible,remembering that Nelson was under contract with another recording company." Nelson Riddle was under contract to Capitol Records at the time,so Bassey's producer Norman Newell went about to secure his services for an album. While on the tour,Bassey,Riddle,and Bassey's music director Raymond Long,discussed what form the album should take. Shortly after the tour was completed,the recording sessions began.
I Am What I Am was the only studio album recorded by Shirley Bassey for the Towerbell Records label. Several other tracks were also recorded at this label and issued as singles only. The recording sessions took place at Olympic Studios,Barnes,London,in July and August 1984. Following the success of the previous album All by Myself,this album peaked at number 25 in the UK album chart and reached Gold status. This release was the first digitally recorded album made by Shirley Bassey and was issued on vinyl,cassette and CD. Consisting of mainly re-recordings from Shirley Bassey's back catalogue and two new songs,this album was recorded 'live' with The London Symphony Orchestra,conducted by Carl Davies. The album also reunited Shirley Bassey with Norman Newell,who had served successfully as her producer throughout the 1960s.
Live in Japan is a double album by Shirley Bassey,recorded July 8,1974 at Kosei-Nenkin Kaikan Hall in Tokyo,Japan. The album was released in Japan only,and the reverse of the cover listed the songs in English and Japanese. Live at Carnegie Hall had been released just a year prior,with nine of the same songs from Live in Japan,and it is believed that this is at least partly the reason Live in Japan didn't gain a worldwide release. Japan was an important growing market for many artists in the 1970s and many recorded live albums exclusively for release in Japan.
Four Decades of Song is a three-CD compilation from Shirley Bassey issued in 1996. This set features 54 songs recorded between 1959 and 1993. In 2008 EMI repackaged and retitled this boxset as Shirley Bassey The Collection;the new version had six extra tracks.
Bassey –The EMI/UA Years 1959–1979 is a 5-CD boxset compilation from Shirley Bassey issued in 1994,this set features 94 studio recordings on four CDs,recorded for EMI/United Artists between 1959 and 1979. Disc five features a previously unreleased live recording from Carnegie Hall. The boxset was reissued by EMI in 2010 in a standard jewel case set.
I've Got a Song for You is a 1966 album by Shirley Bassey. Bassey had left EMI's Columbia Label,and this was her first album for United Artists,a label she would remain with for approximately 14 years. This album and the following release And We Were Lovers were produced by Bassey's former husband,Kenneth Hume. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at #26,but only remained on the chart for one week,and failed to chart in the US,despite her having received outstanding reviews for live engagements in New York and Las Vegas that same year,and the fact that the album was recorded in New York. It was an inauspicious start for her at UA,as none of her albums would chart either in the UK or the US until 1970. In that year,1970,Bassey would begin to produce more contemporary pop-oriented albums,but here in 1966,despite scoring her biggest hit with "Goldfinger" a year or so earlier,she was still firmly in the traditional pop genre.
Nobody Does It Like Me is a 1974 album by Shirley Bassey. Bassey's recordings had been selling well since 1970,scoring three top ten singles and three ten top albums. Nobody Does It Like Me was recorded with a new producer,George Butler,and brought a partial return to the traditional pop sound of Bassey's pre-1970s career. Here,the title track "Nobody Does It Like Me" and "When You Smile" harken back to the big band era. Bassey's soaring vocals on Paul Anka's "I'm Not Anyone" and the slightly funky "Morning in Your Eyes" contrast with a delicately rendered "Davy". The duet "Davy",recorded with the song's composer Benard Ighner,is one of the rare occasions that Bassey shared the credits with another vocalist;it was also issued as a single and hit #44 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The album closes with Bassey's reading of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". This album failed to chart in the UK and peaked at #142 in the US. Her next two studio albums would be top 15 albums in the UK.
This Is My Life is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey. The mid to late sixties was a period of declining popularity for traditional pop. How much the changing tastes in popular music directly affected Bassey's record sales is difficult to quantify;but her record sales had been faltering since the latter part of the mid 1960s,and the album failed to chart.
Does Anybody Miss Me is a 1969 album by Shirley Bassey. In 1969 Bassey moved her home to Lugano,Switzerland,with her second husband Sergio Novak,whom she had married in Las Vegas in August 1968. Remaining as a tax exile prevented her from performing and recording in the UK. In this period she continued to perform and record in Italy and the US. This album was recorded in the US and produced by the American producer Dave Pell,with arrangements by Artie Butler. The tracks on this album are a selection of standards and show tunes. The title track Does Anybody Miss Me was issued as a single in the UK,backed with the non album track Fa Fa Fa,but this failed to make any impression on the chart. Does Anybody Miss Me has remained part of her live show and was recorded as the opening track of the album Live At Talk Of The Town in 1970. This album saw Bassey re-record her 1958 UK #1 hit single As I Love You which she had previously released on the Philips label.
Johnny Mathis Sings is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on March 10,1967,and was the last of his 11 studio projects for the label. Eight of the twelve tracks were recorded after the completion of his previous LP,So Nice,while four of the tracks were leftovers from the recording sessions for previous Mercury albums. The finished product included a number from Broadway's The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd,a cover of the Beatles hit "Eleanor Rigby",two offerings from songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David,and three cuts that originated in film scores but had lyrics added later:the melody for "Strangers in the Night" was written for A Man Could Get Killed;"Somewhere My Love" began as "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago;and "Lovers in New York" started out as the instrumental title track from Breakfast at Tiffany's.[A]
Those Were the Days is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on November 6,1968,by Columbia Records. It followed the formula of including covers of recent hit songs,the oldest,in this case,being "The End of the World",which hadn't been on the charts since 1963. Two of the 10 tracks,however,had not been released as singles by other artists:"Every Time I Dream of You",which had appeared as an instrumental on Bert Kaempfert's 1967 album Love That Bert Kaempfert,and "You Make Me Think About You",which was first heard in the 1968 film With Six You Get Eggroll.
Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach &Kaempfert is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records. While one half of the two-record set was a compilation of tracks from his previous albums that were composed by Burt Bacharach,the other consisted of new recordings of songs composed by Bert Kaempfert,including a new version of "Strangers in the Night",which Mathis had already recorded in 1966 for his LP Johnny Mathis Sings. Although the Kaempfert tribute was similar to recent Mathis albums in that he was mainly covering songs made popular by other singers,it was absent of hits from the 12 months previous to its release that had become the pattern of his output at this point. The latest US chartings of any of the Kaempfert compositions as of this album's debut came from 1967 recordings of "Lady" by Jack Jones and "The Lady Smiles" by Matt Monro.
Ultimate Sinatra is a 2015 compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra released specifically to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of his birth. The collection consists of songs recorded from 1939 to 1979 during his sessions for Columbia Records,Capitol Records,and Reprise Records. The 4-CD set consists of 100 songs,plus a never before released bonus track of a rehearsal recording of "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from the musical Oklahoma! This edition also features an 80-page booklet with a new essay by Sinatra historian and author Charles Pignone,as well as rare photos and quotes from Sinatra,his family members and key collaborators.
New Look! is a 1967 album by George Shearing accompanied by his quintet and a string orchestra.
25th Anniversary Album is a compilation album by Shirley Bassey. Released in 1978 to mark her 25th year in show business,the album was a double set,comprising 40 tracks. The songs included span just 20 of the 25 years from 1957 to 1976,however,her first professional contract is dated 1953. Bassey had toured extensively throughout 1978 to mark her 25 years. This collection,including her biggest hits and some lesser-known recordings,became one of her biggest in the UK,where it reached No.3 and spent 12 weeks on the album chart.
