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Rare Bobby Darin Audio, Video Comes to Light
07/28/2004 9:02 PM, Reuters
Barry A. Jeckell
A host of rare Bobby Darin
recordings and performance footage make up the CD/DVD package
"Aces Back To Back." Assembled with the help of the late
artist's estate, the set is due Sept. 14 from Hyena Records.
Both discs feature songs from the early 1970s television
variety series "The Bobby Darin Show," marking the first time
the performances are being made commercially available. Along
with several of his own songs, including "Beyond the Sea,"
highlights include covers of "Alone Again Naturally" and
"Dream," the latter a duet with Petula Clark .
The audio disc features the fabled "Milk Recordings,"
collected from a daily, five-minute jazz vocal radio broadcast
series sponsored by the American Dairy Association. Listeners
will be able to hear Darin's renditions of "Blue Skies," "Moon
River" and "All the Way" for the first time since those
broadcasts.
Also included are renditions of Bob Dylan 's "I'll Be Your
Baby Tonight" and Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter," from an
out-of-print live album. A pair of songs -- "Jive" and "Long
Time Movin"' -- stem from out of print studio recordings
released on Darin's own Direction record label. A demo of the
song "Dream Lover" is also included.
The DVD is rounded out by black-and-white footage from a
documentary that Darin was making about his own life that has
never been seen outside of his estate. The clips are narrated
by the late actor/comedian George Burns.
The set comes at a time of tremendous interest in Darin,
who died of a heart ailment in 1973, aged 37. Last week, the
Warner Strategic Marketing compilation "Beyond the Sea -- The
Very Best of Bobby Darin" entered the U.K. album chart at No.
26, the artist's highest placing on the tally since "That's
All" reached No. 15 in 1960.
Kevin Spacey will star as Darin in "Beyond the Sea: The
Bobby Darin Story." Produced and directed by Spacey, the Lions
Gate Films feature is scheduled to open Nov. 26 in U.S.
theaters.
Reuters/Billboard
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