Come Fly with Me
A travel album with Billy May, whose arrangement of Mandalay offended Kipling's daughter.
Frank Sinatra, 1958
- Released
- 6 January 1958
- Recorded
- 1, 3 and 8 October 1957
- Studio
- Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
- Label
- Capitol
- Producer
- Voyle Gilmore
- Length
- 38:47
This was Sinatra's first collaboration with the arranger Billy May. Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the title song at Sinatra's request. May's arrangement of On the Road to Mandalay offended Kipling's daughter Elsie Bambridge, and it was banned in the UK for years until 1984. The New York Times called the alteration of Kipling's poem a form of sacrilege.
The album spent five weeks at number one on Billboard and was nominated for Album of the Year at the first Grammys. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004, and AllMusic gave it five stars.
Track listing
- Come Fly with Me3:19
- Around the World3:20
- Isle of Capri2:29
- Moonlight in Vermont3:32
- Autumn in New York4:37
- On the Road to Mandalay3:28
- Let's Get Away from It All2:11
- April in Paris2:50
- London by Night3:30
- Brazil2:55
- Blue Hawaii2:44
- It's Nice to Go Trav'ling3:52
Personnel
- Frank Sinatra vocals
- Billy May arranger
- Voyle Gilmore producer
More from Frank Sinatra
Songs for Young Lovers (1954), In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Only the Lonely (1958), Nice 'n' Easy (1960), Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962), September of My Years (1965), Sinatra at the Sands (1966), Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967), Francis A. & Edward K. (1967), Watertown (1970), Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980), Duets (1993)
Sources
- Come Fly with Me (Frank Sinatra album), Wikipedia