Chicago Tribune (MCT) -- For those who believed that every note Frank Sinatra ever sang already has been released, reissued and repackaged, brace yourselves: There's new material to come. The man recorded and performed so prolifically for nearly six decades that the vaults keep yielding more music. The latest release, "Sinatra: New York" (Reprise Records), comprises four CDs spanning 1955 to 19...
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Frank Sinatra My Way 40th Anniversary Edition & Live at the Meadowlands Arena Frank Sinatra Enterprises announced an agreement today with the Concord Music Group to release select titles from Sinatra's Reprise Records catalog, including an unreleased live recording. The agreement commences on May 5 with the first two titles: My Way 40th Anniversary Edition, which [...]
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So someone thought of a crazy idea of getting the young popular people of today to do Frank Sinatra covers. I am really up in the air about this. While some people I bet will absolutely do amazing covers, I bet some will ruin some of the songs. This is the first I've heard from the album and I am wondering who else will be on it. Definately Michael Buble and if not your freggin stupid times 100...
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MUSIC NEWS- On June 2, Capitol/EMI Records and Frank Sinatra Enterprises will release Classic Sinatra II, the long-awaited follow-up to the double platinum 2000 release, Classic Sinatra. Featuring 20 classic recordings spanning from 1954 to 1961, the new CD also offers a previously unreleased recording. Released in 2000, Capitol/EMI’s Classic Sinatrahas sold over two million
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Martin Scorcese, long known for not only his film work but also for his music documentaries, has been brought on by Universal and Mandalay Pictures to produce and direct Sinatra.According to a Variety article, the project has been in development for two years with Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman who have successfully negotiated a deal with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, which controls all rights to ...
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The one rule about popular music is that everything changes. That doesn’t mean music gets better. Even mid-level Sinatra ranks higher than most other performers’ best stuff.
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Artist: Frank SinatraAlbum: Nothing But The BestClick here to downloaddownload Come Fly With me mp3download The Best Is Yet To Come mp3download The Way You Look Tonight mp3download Luck Be A Lady mp3download Bewitched mp3download The Good Life mp3download The Girl From Ipanema mp3download Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) mp3download Summer Wind mp3download Stranger In The Night mp3download C...
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My Friends, Mike and Piyada, are great coulple. They just married and had two weddings: traditional Thai and a beach wedding. This photo is from the Thai wedding. And this is from Farang wedding. Actually they have a ton of photos (1,645 photos, do you buy that?!). After i went thru all that photos, i question what song is perfect for perfect couple? Here is the song that pop up in my head:
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Sooner or later, you're bound to be disappointed.You'll eagerly await the release date of a new album by one of your favorite artists, only to discover that it's just...not so hot. Oh, you'll give it a chance, because you've already made a financial investment in the music and an emotional investment in being a fan of the artist, but ultimately you'll file it away and pretend not to notice. With s
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Well, here it is. The official start of the most expensive task of my life. One hundred CD's. All bought. All listened. Here's the first. Number one hundred on Rolling Stone's hallowed (if a bit hapless) list is the very excellent In the Wee Small Hours, by Mr. Sinatra. I'm not gonna lie, this is an amazing album. It was released in 1955, only a few years after the introduction of the LP ...
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According to Will Friedwald in his book "Sinatra! The Song Is You," Friedwald writes most poignantly about the "POint of No Return" recording sessions. "He [Axel Stordahl] must have been proud of his final project with his greatest collaborator and of its wonderful twilight feeling, so appropriate for a fareweel album. Stordahl's presence allowed Sinatra to say good-bye to both the Columbia and...
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NOTE: I am not too terribly pleased with the graphics on this and the preceding musical offering. But then again, beggars can't be choosers!"September Song" was written in 1938 by playwright and lyricist Maxwell Anderson with music by the then recent German refugee Kurt Weill for their stage musical "Knickerbocker Holiday" in which actor Walter Huston sang this memorable song about a May/Decemb...
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The recording sessions for "Point of No Return" had an overt tension that had an under current of care and understanding. The overtly callousness at these sessions were a method to hide the fact that Frank Sinatra was deeply concerned about his old music director's health which was deteriorating slowly from the ravages of cancer. Outwardly, Sinatra would do only one or two takes of each song. T...
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To understand the popularity of Frank Sinatra during the 1940's, you would have to go to his recordings with both the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and those he made as a solo act for Columbia Records. The young many had, by this time, and under Dorsey's guidance, became one of the most popular artists with people of all musical tastes. The beautifully tender legato style with ballads were his calling...
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The Capitol Years of the Sinatra legend were magical years when music wasn't segmented into so many categories as we have now and Ol' Blue Eyes was recording one magical album after another, always exploring to its depths his emotional, colorful way with a song. In 1957, he recorded his first stereo album "Come Fly With Me" with Billy May writing the charts and leading the orchestra in his own ...
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