Of course, this period also saw Sinatra establish the long-playing album as a viable format with his concept pieces, such as In The Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swinging Lovers and No-One Cares, but this is just the hits, through and through.Īnd those hits are, simply, a textbook of popular music. But there is no George Michael or Robbie Williams-style 'look at me, I'm grown up now' posturing here.įrom the exuberance of ''I've Got The World On A String'' to the wistfulness of ''September Song'', this 48-track collection is all the big hitters, refined, distilled, presented directly for your delectation. In this sense, his Capitol years presented the model for all future teen stars who have subsequently striven to be taken seriously, shedding their initial public image. Especially coming after his bobbysoxer period at Columbia, this success confounded many who had written him off as the previous decade's flash in the pan. It's like a time capsule beautiful, discrete songs and moods that are quite unlike anything else. And given the sheer volume of classics he recorded at this time, the collection runs to a satisfying three-disc overview. The songs Frank Sinatra recorded for Capitol between 19 stand as one of the most significant catalogues in music although bearing no acknowledgement whatsoever to the nascent rock and roll phenomenon, it represented a musical causeway between the austerity of the 50s and the Technicolor of the 60s an age that incorporated Sputnik, Civil Rights and Elvis Presley.Ĭompiled with the approval and cooperation of the Frank Sinatra estate, this compilation seeks to do a Beatles 1 and ELV1S by putting the very cream of his recordings from the era together. Since then, his work has been emulated by scores of singers, and on the verge of the release of Ocean's Twelve actors. And then, in the 90s, when Rat Pack Confidential was published, Sinatra became an icon all over again for the Loaded generation tales of his cool, his shadiness and his style became as eagerly regurgitated by writers as they were readily accepted by readers. Then, suddenly, in the mid 80s, Sinatra's Capitol recordings were reissued and it slowly dawned on NME readers that he was indeed the man who all the Costellos, McCullochs and Bonos had spent their formative years listening to. There was a vague notion that he had once been young and cool, but that was several lifetimes away. He was a white-haired man, who seemed to spend his days endlessly retiring and singing ''My Way''. Growing up in the 70s, unless you were a musical aristocrat, Frank Sinatra was simply old.
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