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For the Linda Ronstadt album, see Frenesí (album).

1940 single by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra

"Frenesí"

Single by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
A-side	"Adiós Mariquita Linda"
Published	December 28, 1939 (1939-12-28) by Southern Music Pub. Co., Inc., New York
Released	March 29, 1940 (1940-03-29)
Recorded	March 3, 1940 (1940-03-03)
Studio	Victor Studios, Hollywood
Genre	Swing
Length	3:01
Label	Victor 26542
Composer(s)	Alberto Domínguez Borrás
Lyricist(s)	Leonard Whitcup

"Frenesí" is a musical piece originally composed by Alberto Domínguez Borrás for the marimba, and adapted as a jazz standard by Leonard Whitcup and others.

Background

The word frenesí is Spanish for "frenzy".

A hit version recorded by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (with an arrangement by William Grant Still) reached number one on the Billboard pop chart on December 21, 1940, staying for 13 weeks, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982.

Other performers who have recorded the song include:

World War II flying ace Major (later Brigadier General) Thomas L. Hayes named his P-51 Frenesi after the song. He said it was a tribute to his wife Louise, for the song they listened to; he believed the song's name translated as "Love Me Tenderly".
The Artie Shaw recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1980 film Raging Bull.
Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland features a character named Frenesi Gates, "her name celebrating the record by Artie Shaw that was all over the jukeboxes and airwaves in the last days of the war".

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v t e Artie Shaw
Compilation albums	Four Star Favorites Up Swing
Singles	"Begin the Beguine" "Indian Love Call" "Deep Purple" "All the Things You Are" "Stranger in Paradise" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Alone Together" "Frenesi" "Gloomy Sunday" "Stardust" "Moonglow" "Dancing in the Dark" "Blues in the Night" "Love Walked In" "It Had to Be You" "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" "They Can't Take That Away from Me" "How Deep Is the Ocean?"
Films	Second Chorus Dancing Co-Ed
Related	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got "Smug Alert!"

v t e Woody Herman
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	How Hi the Fi (with Buck Clayton, 1954) Woody Herman–1963 (1962) My Buddy (with Rosemary Clooney, 1983)
Live albums	Encore Woody Herman–1963 (1963)
Singles	"Woodchopper's Ball" (1939) "Frenesi" (1941) "The Golden Wedding" (1941) "Blues in the Night" (1942) "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (1944) "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (1945) "Laura" (1945) "Caldonia" (1945) "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (1946) "Surrender" (1946) "Sabre Dance" (1948) "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955)

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