Customer Reviews

Cash Landing

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This man captures the spirit of the current lounge-music craze perfectly, and sends it up rotten.

The woman who introduced me to him is the head of the public radio station in Adelaide, South Australia, and their playlist seldom includes anything so smooth. The character Frank Bennett (not his real name, alas) skewers both 50's lounge and shallow eighties New Romantics.

Australians reading this will be delighted to read the fine print on the CD sleeve. Frank maintains that the album is made possible "with the kind assistance of Bond University, the Edelston chain of Family Medical Centres, and Quintex Corporation". Frankie...if this is true, I doff my fedora to you! Pour yourself a gin sling at my expense!

If you've not encounter'd Franks previous offering, Five O'clock shadow, here is a rare pleasure. Most of the songs that get the treatment, well, I honestly find it hard to remember how the original artists performed them. I certainly don't in any way think the original to be better.Another artist who is in a similar line is the sublime Jimmy Little. Wouldn't I love to catch the pair of them in a concert.

A triumph. The follow up album to "Five O'clock Shadow". A lounge / swing style and a themed album to boot. Full of surprises like the cover of Madonna's "Material Girl". What more could you ask for. My personal favourites are "Opportunities" and the lyrical masterpiece "Beautiful People".

Break out a glass of old mash, light your favorite cigar, put the lights down low, bring the volume to a very comfortable smoky lounge setting. Sit back and be MOST pleasantly surprised by an artist with something not seen in years,,,,,true artistic originality!

If you like lounge and alternative music, then this is how it should be sung

The boy from Birrong has played strong with this most recent effort. Frank has hit the advantage line superbly whilst treating the touchline like a precipous. Sounds and groves that remind me of an XPT going through Fassifern. Overall, a simply super effort that.

This is a must get album. Frank Bennett a play on Frank (Sinatra) and (Tony) Bennett sings his version of great songs like Material Girl and my favourite "Beautiful People"

The Album and the music are inappropriate for any occassion and with due defference to South Park is unsuitable to be heard by anyone.