| My Baby Loves to Swing | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Vic Damone |
| Cover: | My Baby Loves to Swing.jpg |
| Released: | January 1963 |
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| Length: | 29:08 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Jack Marshall |
| Prev Title: | Young and Lively |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| Next Title: | The Liveliest |
| Next Year: | 1963 |
My Baby Loves to Swing is a studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released by Capitol Records in January 1963. 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.
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.
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.[1]
Cashbox stated that "the tunes are rendered in a variety of danceable rhythms including Bossa Nova, cha-cha and waltz"[2]
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.[3]
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