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Track:Mercer-Arlen: One for the Road (And One More For My Baby)
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Frank Sinatra
Only the Lonely
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AMG Review of Only the Lonely
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideOriginally, Frank Sinatra had planned to record Only the Lonely with Gordon Jenkins, who had arranged his previous all-allads album, Where Are You. Jenkins was unavailable at the time of the sessions, which led Sinatra back to his original arranger at Capitol, Nelson Riddle. The result is arguably his greatest allads album. Only the Lonely follows the same formula as his previous down albums, but the tone is considerably bleaker and more desperate. Riddle used a larger orchestra for the album than he had in the past, which lent the album a stately, nearly classical atmosphere. At its core, however, the album is a set of brooding saloon songs, highlighted by two of Sinatra's tour de forces -- "Angel Eyes" and "One for My Baby." Sinatra never forces emotion out of the lyric, he lets everything flow naturally, with grace. It's a heartbreaking record, the ideal late-night album.
Frank Sinatra Sings “One for the Road (And One More For My Baby)”
Frank Sinatra Sings “Ebb Tide”
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Track:Maxwell: Ebb Tide
"Ebb Tide" was one of the most recorded song of the 1950's. It was written in 1953 by Carl Sigman and English born harpist Robert Maxwell. Of all of the versions that are out there, this is the most gripping performance. Nelson Riddle wrote an arrangement that resembles the rising tide engulfing the singer like a buoy on turbulent seas. The lyrics would normally portray a growing tide of passio...
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