Episode 1814
It Might as Well Be Swing
Fri, 2022-Apr-22 00:19 UTC
Length - 1:38
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Friday, 22 April 2022 is It Might as Well Be Swing.
It Might as Well Be Swing is a 1964 studio album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra. It was Sinatra's first studio recording arranged by Quincy Jones.
The recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" which appears on this album has become one of Sinatra's most popular. This was Sinatra and Basie's second collaboration after 1962's Sinatra-Basie.
Sinatra's cover version of "Hello Dolly" on the album features a new second verse improvised by Sinatra, which pays tribute to Louis Armstrong, who had topped the Billboard charts with his own version of the song earlier in 1964.
It Might as Well Be Swing is a reference to the title of the well known jazz standard "It Might as Well Be Spring".
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:19 UTC on Friday, 22 April 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see It Might as Well Be Swing on Wikipedia.
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