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Greatest Hits
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All Time
Greatest Hits |
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Greatest Songs
Sammy Davis Jr. |
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The Summit In
Concert [Gold Disc] Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr |
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Volume 1: Hot
Fives Louis Armstrong |
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Dreams Come True Ella
Fitzgerald |
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The Greatest Hits Nat King
Cole |
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Gene Kelly At
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: 'S Wonderful Gene |
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Judy Garland,
Vol. 2: Ziegfeld Girl (1941 Film) / For Me And My Gal (1942 Film) [SOUNDTRACK]
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25th
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The
Unforgettable Nat King Cole Nat |
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Frank Sinatra A master of pop forms, Francis Albert
Sinatra went from a teen idol to a brooding melancholic with a song in his
heart to an elder statesman of song. His career, while long and varied, stayed
focused on swinging, hip music--stuff that sounds timelessly germane. Here are
Sinatra's essential recordings.
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In the Wee Small Hours [ORIGINAL RECORDING
REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording The
first of many artistic milestones in the long and illustrious collaboration of
Frank Sinatra and arranger Nelson Riddle that began at Capitol Records, In
the Wee Small Hours is a first in other notable ways as well: It was the
pair's first 12-inch LP; their first album devoted entirely to ballads; the
first "concept album," a program of songs designed to be heard in a particular
sequence that sustains a mood and suggests a story; the introduction of
Sinatra's definitive "saloon singer"...
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The Best Of The Capitol Years |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording This is
a flawless single-disc condensation of the three-CD
Capitol
Years box featuring many of Sinatra's most famous songs of the '50s and
early-'60s period he spent making masterpieces for the label. Sinatra displays
at least as many emotional shadings here as there are songs on the disc; not
only is there the unfettered ebullience of "I've Got the World on a String" or
the desolation of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" but a riotously insouciant
reading of the ostensibly heartbroken "South...
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Songs for Swingin' Lovers! [ORIGINAL
RECORDING REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording Sinatra
already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for
Swingin' Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner
from Hoboken--the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon--but from the first notes
of the opening track ("You Make Me Feel So Young"), he seems to have discovered
a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation point in the
album title. There's a buoyant new spring in his step, accented by Nelson
Riddle's lighter-than-air...
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The Best of the Rest...
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Sings For Only The Lonely
[Remaster] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording Look
past the tacky, sad-clown velvet painting on the cover (a Grammy winner for
album design in 1959!); there's nothing cheap or sentimental about this
record--the bleakest and blackest album of popular songs ever recorded, so
quietly powerful, it can leave you slumped in your chair with the ice cubes
still rattling in your glass. Every single "suicide song" (as Sinatra liked to
call them) on Only the Lonely is a stunner that will take your breath
away. Nelson Riddle's arrangements are like...
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A Swingin' Affair! [ORIGINAL
RECORDING REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording A
Swingin' Affair! is as perfect as records get. Sinatra sounds near to
bursting with self-assurance on this 1957 release; even on the laments "I Guess
I'll Have to Change My Plans" and "No One Ever Tells You," this is a Frank
who's at the top of his game and isn't shy about letting you know he knows it.
Nelson
Riddle's upbeat arrangements are among his smoothest, and the varied
program (which also includes "Night and Day," the wiseacre "I Wish I Were in
Love Again," and "I Won't Dance") makes...
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September of My Years
[ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra
Amazon.com essential recording From
the evocative cover painting to the impeccably chosen songs within, this 1965
album harks back to Sinatra's great Capitol-era concept albums like In the
Wee Small Hours and Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. The
theme revolves around a man approaching his 50s, looking back with a mixture of
nostalgia, regret, and uncertainty; given Sinatra's age at the time (he was 49
when this was recorded) and the way he invests himself in the material, it's
impossible to interpret the record as...
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Francis Albert Sinatra &
Antonio Carlos Jobim [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] |
by Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos
Jobim Amazon.com essential recording
The talent of Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Jobim was revealed to
a larger world in 1959 by his and Luis Bonfa's score for the film Orfeo
Negro (Black Orpheus) in 1959. Songs such as "A Felicidade" and
"Desafinado" generated the bossa nova movement of the early '60s that inspired
the likes of Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd, and Miles Davis. This 1967 album features
Jobim sharing vocals with Sinatra on "The Girl from Ipanema" and "How
Insensitive." Three standards--"Change Partners" by Irving...
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