Darin At The Copa - Bobby Darin

 

Love For Sale

Darin At The Copa

Orchestra Conducted By Richard Behrke

Recording Engineers: Tom Dowd & Phil Ieble

Cover Photo: Curt Gunther-Topix

Supervision: Ahmet & Nesebi Ertegun

Recorded by ATCO, New York

Printed in England - St. James Press - London, S.E.I.

London Records HA-K 2291

1960

Richard Behrke arranged You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, By Myself & When Your Lover Has Gone.

Buddy Bregman arranged I Have Dreamed & I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Richard Wess arranged Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Lonesome Road, Some Of These Days, Mack The Knife, Clementine, Dream Lover & That's All

Paul Shelley's Copacabana Orchestra is conducted by Richard Bebrke, who plays piano on this LP. Ronnie Zito is heard on drums.

From the back cover: The biggest entertainment even in New York this season was the spectacular debut opening of Bobby Darin at the world-famous Copacabana. Thousands of fans jostled columnists and celebrities to get a foot inside the glamorous East 60th Street nightclub. Bobby's many hit records and his frequent appearance on the leading TV shows over the previous two years had brought out a vast and curious throng for this first nightclub engagement of Bobby's in New York, his home town.

When Bobby came on that night, he was welcomed by an ovation from the audience, receiving one of the warmest greetings ever accorded a star at the Copa. A good thumb-nail description of Bobby on this occasion is that of Gene Knight, writing in the New York Journal-American: "He is a slim young man with a knowing glance; a syncopated style from head to toe; a large charge of self-assurance; a finger-snapping, shoulder-shrugging beat; and show-wise projection that belies his brief four years as a performer. He has a sense of pace, nan instinct for humor – he is alive."

Bobby put on a great show. He sang, he did a soft-shoe routine, he was all over the room, talking to the customers and trading quips with friends. On this LP you can hear his witty asides to Dot rereading star Keeley Smith and comedian Joe Ross (Private Doberman of the Sgt. Bilko show). Later, as he begins to sing Dream Lover, he talks to an eight-year-old girl sitting at a ringside table between her parents. 

Bobby amazed his admires, who know him only as a singer, by turning to the vies in the orchestra behind him and sealing into a wonderful bluesy solo in Alright, O.K., You Win – and later again when he sat down and coaxed some "down home" piano out of the Steinway when he sang ) Got A Woman. Bobby Darin's versatility and talent seemed limitless.

During all of Bobby's stay, business at the Copa was SRO every night. Attendance records came down, for the Copa had a star in Bob Darin who appealed to everybody. It was evident to all that he is going to be here a long, long time. This LP, recorded in its entirety at the Copa, offers some of the choicest moments of Bobby's unforgettable first appearance there.

Medely: Swing Low Sweet Hariot  / Lonesome Road

Some Of These Days

Mack The Knife

Love For Sale

Clementine

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Dream Lover

Bill Bailey

I Have Dreamed

I Can't Give You Anything But Live

Alright, O.K., You Win

Medley: By Myself / When Your Lover Has Gone

I Got A Woman

That's all