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Music CD - Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Collection
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Music CD: The Reprise Collection
Artist: Frank Sinatra
List Price: $127.98
Our Price: $68.00
Your Save: $ 59.98 ( 47% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros UK
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Tracks:
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1. Let's Fall In Love
2. You'd Be So Easy To Love
3. The Coffee Song
4. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
5. The Last Dance
6. The Second Time Around
7. Tina
8. Without A Song
9. It Started All Over Again
10. Love Walked In
11. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
12. Don't Take Your Love From Me
13. Come Rain Or Come Shine
14. Night And Day
15. All Alone
16. What'll I Do
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You
18. Don'Cha Go 'Way Mad
19. A Garden In The Rain
20. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
21. Please Be Kind
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992634021
Format: Box set
Label: Warner Bros UK
Manufacturer: Warner Bros UK
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Warner Bros UK
Release Date: 1990-12-08
Studio: Warner Bros UK
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent collection
Comment: This has all the Sinatra favorites. If you need to finish your collection this is one to have.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Without A Song . . . The Day Would Never End"
Comment: "Acting is integral to Sinatra's singing - not histrionics, but skillful, sensitive acting of lyrics and melody, with definite phrasing, economic use of italics, controlled gestures of voice, face and body, and a foundation of understated passion, he turns each song into a one-act play." ~ David McClintick, Liner Notes ~
This four-CD-box-set, "The Reprise Collection" is a great compilation of Frank Sinatra's recordings during his Reprise years and most definitely a worthy addition to any Sinatra buff and collector. The collection producers, Mo Ostin, Joe McEwen and James Isaacs did a great job in this tribute to Frank Sinatra's 75th birthday and his 30th anniversary as a Reprise artist.
Disc One contains 21 songs and the rest of the CDs contain 20 songs each -all remarkable recordings highlighting the illustrious and bright years of the legendary singer at Reprise. Some of the tracks are previously unreleased. Recording engineer Lee Herschberg made sure that the digital mastering and remixes are flawlessly done. The sound quality is excellent. The packaging is quite impressive and comes with an attached booklet with articles, photos and a thumbnail of 98 Sinatra albums. The interesting and informative articles are as follow:
1. "So Frank Is Seventy-Five" by William Kennedy
2. "Questions Without Simple Answers" by David McClintick
3. "The Songs - An Introduction" - list and annotations of all the songs by Jonathan Schwartz
4. Afterword written by James Isaacs
The selection represents the works of the most brilliant and remarkable Sinatra arrangers/conductors/orchestrators such as Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Johnny Mandel, Gordon Jenkins, Don Costa, Claus Ogerman, Robert Farnon, Sy Oliver, Quincy Jones with Count Basie Orchestra, Neal Hefti, Eumir Deodato, Torrie Zito, Marty Paich, Ernie Freeman, Billy Strange, Joe Parnello and Billy Byers, and also features pianist Bill Miller and guitarist Tony Mottola.
My list of favorites includes:
Disc One: "Love Walked In," "The Second Time Around," "Let's Fall In Love," "Night And Day," "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To," "Come Rain Or Come Shine," "What'll I Do?" "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "The Last Dance," "All Alone," "A Garden In The Rain," "A Nightingale Sung In Berkeley Square," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Without A Song," with lyric that ends with . . .
"I'll never know what makes the rain to fall
I'll never know what makes the grass so tall
I only know there ain't no love at all without a song."
Disc Two: "The Way You Look Tonight," "Moonlight Serenade," "This Is All I Ask," "Fly Me To The Moon," "Oh You Crazy Moon," "Pennies From Heaven," "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "I Have Dreamed," and of course "America The Beautiful" and "California."
Disc Three: "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Shadow Of Your Smile," "Wave," "Indian Summer," "How Insensitive," "Once I Loved," "Dindi," "I Concentrate On You," "You Make Me Feel So Young," "Summer Wind," and "Something Stupid."
Disc Four: "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?" "More Than You Know," "Send In The Clowns," "It's Sunday" and "The Song Is You," with beautiful lyric that ends with . . .
"Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing?
The beautiful rhapsody of love and youth and spring,
The music is sweet, the words are true
The song is you."
I could go on and on with all the good things about this set but suffice it to say that this is one of the best-ever compilations of Sinatra recordings and I wholeheartedly recommend it to avid Sinatra fans.
In closing, I share Mr. Isaacs sentiments written on the Afterword . . .
" . . . Most of all, thank you, Mr. Sinatra for a monumental body of work, and for speaking to me when seemingly no one else could. Over the past 50 years perhaps 100 million other human beings have felt the same." ~ James Isaacs, August 1990 ~
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the Four Essential Sinatra Box Sets
Comment: Along with The Columbia Years, The Capitol Singles Collection, and Sinatra in Vegas, this is a must-have for any Sinatraphile. His Reprise years saw some great ballads and some excellent re-makes of older Sinatra classics. Because of the occasional inconsistency of Sinatra's later Reprise releases, this boxed set is an economical way to get the best of his later work without buying the later albums.
Sound is excellent, and the set comes with a good booklet on Sinatra as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Everything you'd want from the Reprise Years
Comment: Few vocalists pack the drama, emotion, and swagger of Frank Sinatra and "The Reprise Collection" compiles Frankie at his best during that era. You couldn't possibly pack EVERYTHING her recorded on Reprise into a box set...it would be enormous! This covers the gravy of his recordings for Reprise from 1960 to 1986 and shows his career trajectory during those many years, going from a middle-aged pro to the twilight of his years. Anything and everything is pretty much here, from "Something Stupid" to pop classics like "New York, New York" all delivered in the inimitable Sinatra style. Reading over the track listing is a trip down memory lane and so many of these tracks were signature songs Sinatra defined and owned. Of course there's the age-old debate about whether his Capitol or Reprise years were his best; I say who cares! Pop these CDs in and you'll see Frankie was still the consummate artist until almost the end.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good collection for a good price
Comment: This is a great value if you are looking for the many highlights of Frank in the Reprise years. This will give you many (not all) of his great recordings. This will save you much time and money vs. trying to find many of these songs individually.
In short: gives you alot of songs for the money. However, there is much more out there during the Reprise years to discover.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The pundits claim that Ol' Blue Eyes did his best work with Columbia in the '50s, but there's more great '60s and '70s stuff here than you can shake a stick at. After all, Sinatra wouldn't start his own label only to sing schlock. This four-CD set was released to celebrate The Chairman's 75th birthday and it traces the mellowing of that tremendous voice like the aging of a fine wine. It also adds eight unreleased tracks to a staggering song list highlighted by biggies like "New York, New York," "My Way," "The Way You Look Tonight," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "The Song Is You." --Michael Ruby
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