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| Artist: Frank Sinatra
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 136
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: 438652
UPC: 081227993689
EAN: 0081227993689
ASIN: B0013L5M08
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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 Missing Quite a Lot May 13, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This collection is rather far from definitive. True, the Reprise label could not choose tracks that Frankie recorded for Capitol, but there are still missing his signature songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin", then Henry Mancini's "Moon River" or the enchanting faster songs like Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick Out Of You".
Good, but not absolutely comprehensive (That is pretty impossible). The fact is that Frank had his artistic peak in the 1950s under Nelson Riddle collaborations - it was before Reprise years. If this album is marketed as the best-of compilation to topple them all, it's simply not true. However, you can't go wrong with it, of course. It has much of the real best, including "Girl From Ipanema" featuring A.C. Jobim.
 BODY AND SOUL'S SUPERB VOCAL!!!! May 13, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a great compilation!!!!!!!!The highlight of the CD is the previously unreleased version of "Body And Soul" and so - after about 25 years - we can finally listen to this wonderful track. Frank is in good voice and the arrangement is very slow, with a great string section and a melancholy violin appearing once in a while. Some time ago I heard the original 1984 recording - deleted from 'LA Is My Lady' - and in my opinion the orchestration was not good at all - one of the worst I have ever heard in a Sinatra recording - but this new arrangement by Torrie Zito is better and the sound of the orchestra is moving and tender.
Besides this CD has been carefully remastered and the sound results very powerful on all tracks apart from 'That's Life'. At last we can hear 'New York New York' or 'My Way' in all their splendour!!!
Finally this CD contains some alternate takes as 'Come Fly With Me' which ends in a different way or 'The Best Is Yet To Come' which is slighty different from the original version. Even 'Strangers In The Night' is a few seconds longer so we can hear more ad-libs by Frank.
The only flaw is the booklet because it does not give any informations about the tracks, their recording date or their master number, except for 'Body And Soul'.
OLD BLUE EYES SINGING 'MANY' OF HIS VERY BEST! May 13, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Five HUGE Stars!!! The magnificent, multi-Grammy-winning Frank Sinatra is caught singing some of the FINEST popular music and jazz performances of his legendary career, many of which are the DEFINITIVE versions of these songs. Unquestionably one of the GREATEST pop and jazz singers of all time. Jazz? Yes, Sinatra started with swing bands, won many jazz polls over the years, and Count Basie's jazz band (found here twice) was one of his favorites, but he never altered his style: it just fit both categories perfectly, forcing fans in each genre to bend to his singing mastery. And by no means are these tunes ALL of "the best" Sinatra, but it contains 'many' and it arrives, remixed and remastered, on the tenth anniversary of his passing from the new Frank Sinatra Enterprises. In addition, the CD contains a previously unreleased bonus version of the classic "Body and Soul". Some versions of this CD contain a collectable postage stamp and a bonus track on the US Postal Service CD of "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (available through your post office), and yet another contains a DVD of a live concert, so read the CD technical descriptions carefully.
Some of the 'best of the best' include a stunning, classic "Come Fly With Me", under Nelson Riddle's musical glow and Billy May's baton, with that signature string and brass intro. "The Best Is Yet to Come" is top-drawer Sinatra with Count Basie's Orchestra and his inimitable swinging piano coloring the proceedings. The seldom heard "All My Tomorrows" is pure vocal poetry in a poignant version that is somewhat different from another faster one that I heard years ago. Beyond this "Luck Be a Lady","It Was A Very Good Year" (Grammy), "That's Life", "My Kind of Town", "My Way", the "Theme from New York, New York" and "Strangers in the Night" (double Grammy) are all as some of us will remember them, some with extended endings: outstanding performances with "Ol' Blues Eyes" coming up BIG, over and over. Yes, "Young at Heart", "Nice N' Easy", "Witchcraft", "All the Way", "The Lady Is A Tramp", "I Get A Kick Out of You", and many others are missing which immediately challenges the nebulous title "Nothing But The Best". To those new to Sinatra, the depth of the Sinatra treasure trove from his Capitol Records years await you! Still, this CD captures a cross-section of the legendary Chairman of the Board's greatest performances which are absolutely not to be missed. Remixed and remastered with outstanding sound. My Highest Recommendation. Five CLASSIC Stars!!!!!
(This review is based on an iTunes download.)
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