This anthology of late-period Reprise Records Sinatra (meaning 1961 onwards) is available in both a one-disc and deluxe two-disc package. Its main appeal to collectors should be the previously unreleased alternative version of “My Funny Valentine,” available on the standard one-disc edition. The release draws on the period where Sinatra was relying on the orchestrations of a variety of arrangers such as Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and Don Costa (that’s Nikka Costa’s dad to you). Some of the albums this set draws from include “Sinatra and Strings,” “Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,” and “Sinatra & Company.” Not bad for casual listening, or seduction, if that’s your thing. But Sinatra was more convincing doing saloon songs in his later years (as on the brilliant, underrated “She Shot Me Down”) and was at his most seductive during his more innocent Columbia days in the 1940s, long before most of these tracks were cut.
Frank Sinatra rules and is the best crooner of all times! He's the best! The only even close is dino!
JOE
Every young person should take one night and listen to Sinatra - his phrasing, his arrangements and enunciation.
The Babe Ruth of Male Singers and king of crooners.
Norm