Girl In Love - Bud Shank

Strangers In The Night

Girl In Love
Bud Shank
Orchestra Arranged & Conducted by Oliver Nelson
Producer: Richard Bock
Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Art Direction: Woody Woodward
Cover Photo: Ken Kim
World Pacific WP-1853
A Division of Liberty Records
1966

Oliver Nelson is heard through the courtesy of Impulse Records

From the back cover: A glance through the past achievements of Clifford Everett Shank Jr. on the World Pacific / Pacific Jazz labels gives a striking picture of the man's range of musical interests. He has not only recorded on alto sax, but also on tenor, baritone and flute. He has worked in a hard-bop setting, with a string ensemble and teamed with Bob Cooper's oboe; with musicians from Brazil, India and Japan. He has recorded popular songs, jazz standards and his own originals, including the score for a motion picture. Then, of course, in 1965 Michelle brought him to the attention of an unprecedentedly large audience. The end justified the means, for there are Shank fans who, having been attracted to his work by the Michelle single or album, are now digging back into his prior history as a recording artist. The present album, like the California Dreaming' set which followed Michelle, was patterned along lines that will maintain Bud's new reputation. A new element has been added, in the person of Oliver Nelson, the St. Louis born composer arranger-conductor who for some years was better known as a saxophonist like Bud. Nelson shows a unique faculty for taking the essence of a hit of the day and orchestrating in a manner that displays Shank's instrumental personality to optimum effect. The somewhat unconventional instrumentation was a challenge to Oliver: six strings (on some tracks, though technical ingenuity, they are doubled to a dozen); four trombones and a large rhythm section; Bob Florence at the piano, Herb Ellis, Dennis Budimir and John Pisano on guitars, Bob West on bass, Frank Capp on drums, Victor Feldman on miscellaneous percussion. Frank Rosolino's trombone is woven into Bud's lines on Strangers In The Night. This song and Summer Wind are both hits associated with Frank Sinatra. Most of the tunes will be readily identified in connection with another popular version – Lady Jane with the Rolling Stones, Solitary Man with Neil Diamond and so forth.

From Billboard - October 1, 1966: Featuring jazz treatments of recent hits such as "Strangers In The Night" and "Summer Wind," Shank has a topper for his past two album successes. The well-planned program, combined with the arrangements of Oliver Nelson and spotlighting the haunting sax of Shank at its best, should hit the LP chart rapidly. Outstanding programming material.

Lady Jane
Summer Wind
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
Strangers In The Night
When A Man Loves A Woman
Girl In Love
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
Time
The Shining Sea
Lara's Theme From "Doctor Zhivago"
Solitary Man