Michael Bolton - "Bolton Swings Sinatra"

BOLTON SWINGS SINATRA TRACKLISTING

01. You Go To My Head
02. For Once In My Life
03. My Funny Valentine
04. The Summer Wind
05. Fly Me To The Moon
06. That’s Life
07. Under My Skin
08. New York, New York
09. Girl From Ipanema
10. Night and Day
11. Can’t Take That Away From Me
12. The 2nd Time Around (duet with Nicolette Sheridan)

“Under My Skin” Streaming Audio:

Listen to "I've got you under my skin" with allowness by Tracie Galinski from Special Ops Media for Passion Music/Concord Records.

“For Once In My Life” Streaming Audio:

Listen to "For Once In My Life" with allowness by Tracie Galinski from Special Ops Media for Passion Music/Concord Records.

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BOLTON SWINGS SINATRA

MICHAEL BOLTON COMES OUT SWINGING WITH SET OF SINATRA CLASSICS;
BOLTON SWINGS SINATRA DUE MAY 23 FROM PASSION MUSIC CO./CONCORD RECORDS

Stunning New Album Pairs Singing Superstar With Big Band, Classic Songs;
Nicollette Sheridan Joins Him for Duet on Song “The Second Time Around”
International superstar Michael Bolton has taken on another extraordinary challenge with Bolton Swings Sinatra (slated for release May 23 from PASSION MUSIC CO./Concord Records). The collection finds him singing classics like “New York, New York,” “Night and Day,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Girl From Ipanema” and “That’s Life,” and bringing in special guest Nicollette Sheridan for a duet on “The Second Time Around.”

“For years I’ve kept a list of dream projects,” Bolton notes. “At the top of that list was an album of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra.”

Supervising the arrangements and orchestrations down to the last note, he’s created an affectionate, dynamic tribute to some of the greatest recordings of the 20th century. The result will be a revelation even for longtime fans – passionate, playful, boisterous, intimate and everything in between; Bolton Swings Sinatra is a dazzling pairing of singer and material.

“It’s such an honor to have an opportunity to work with Michael Bolton,” said Glen Barros, president of Concord Music Group. “Like all of his great recordings, it’s clear that he’s put his heart and soul into this incredible project. I’m sure it will resonate with his millions of fans and, in addition, attract an enormous group of new ones.”

Fired up by a spectacular big band of what he calls “A-plus musicians,” including 17 horns and 35 string players, and working with top-flight arrangments and audio technicians in the legendary Capitol studios where the Chairman of the Board and countless other icons have put down tracks, Bolton went to work on a batch of songs he’d loved since childhood.

He was strongly aided in this endeavor by co-producer Alex Christensen, arranger Chris Walden and engineer-mixer Al Schmitt, the latter a veteran of many Sinatra sessions, among other famed recordings. “They’re brilliant,” Bolton asserts of these aural architects. “They helped make everyone feel happy – the players loved the creative environment. Al’s like the doctor who’s delivered 200 of the most famous babies in the world,” he adds, referring to Schmitt’s extraordinary track record in the studio, which has earned him 15 Grammy™ trophies.

The process went so smoothly, Bolton reveals, that they finished the musicians’ parts with time to spare. “I’ve never sent string players home early,” he insists. “The album just came together so beautifully – like it was meant to be.”

Having already sold 53 million albums, scaled the Pop, R&B and Classical charts, performed at sold-out venues worldwide, sung with Luciano Pavarotti and Ray Charles, written songs with Bob Dylan, traded guitar licks with B.B. King and penned hits for Barbra Streisand and KISS, anyone but Bolton might have been tempted to rest on his laurels. Instead, true to form, the vocalist threw himself into researching Sinatra’s life and work and preparing to put his own mark on a selection of material that the Chairman of the Board had made his own.

“Frank = SINATRA sang with such power and such vulnerability,” marvels Bolton. “He was a great storyteller. I just tried to tell some of these stories in my own way. He is one of the very few singers with such a dynamic vocal and personal range that he could sing with complete authority, strength and conviction one moment and in another stir us to our core with a tenderness and a sense of vulnerability that would deliver the pure emotion and meaning the composer intended.”

So completely did he immerse himself in Sinatra’s aura, Bolton confides, that his collaborators thought he might be undergoing some kind of transformation. “They were worrying about me, that I was becoming him,” he says with a laugh. “I started walking into the studio and calling everybody ‘kid.’”

Of his duet with Sheridan, he relates, “Nicollette always sang around me until she thought I was listening – then she’d get self-conscious. But I always told her she had wonderful pitch and beautiful tone. I played her “The Second Time Around” and suggested she sing it with me, and she just lit up. The song just captured what we’ve been feeling – that love really is better further down the road, like the song says, with both feet on the ground.”

Still, considering Sheridan had never presented herself as a singer, the experience was a bit overwhelming. “She had to walk past the photo of Judy Garland on her way to the vocal booth,” says Bolton, laughing. “But she was just fine.” And as you can hear she did a beautiful job.

Bolton Swings Sinatra is being released jointly by the singer’s PASSION MUSIC CO. and Concord Records. Concord Music Group is one of the largest independent record companies in the world – and keeper of an extraordinarily rich and, in many cases, historically significant catalog of recordings, including titles from some of the most admired and enduring names in music, such as Rosemary Clooney, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard and Thelonious Monk, to name a few. 2004 saw the release of Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company, winner of 8 GRAMMY Awards including Album and Record of the Year. The group's current roster of world-class artists includes Karrin Allyson, Regina Belle, Peter Cincotti, Michael Feinstein, Nnenna Freelon, John Fogerty, LaToya London, Sergio Mendes, Ozomatli, Eddie Palmieri, The Rippingtons and Sonny Rollins, among many others.

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