Duets & Duets 2 [Box set, Limited Edition]

Frank Sinatra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Box set, Limited Edition
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000DG1S
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,715 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lady Is a Tramp

2. What Now, My Love?

3. I've Got a Crush on You

4. Summer Wind

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. For Once in My Life

2. Come Fly with Me

3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

4. The Best Is Yet to Come

5. Moonlight in Vermont

6. Fly Me to the Moon

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Bonus CD [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please stay away from the Duets releases - they're awful, October 2, 1999

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Jon Warshawsky "Sinatra Guru" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Duets & Duets 2 (Audio CD)

Sinatra is the single best voice of American song, and the Duets albums are the absolute worst Sinatra albums available. I own more than 50 Sinatra albums, and I can unequivocally say that the Duets I & II albums are the only ones I NEVER LISTEN TO. The version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" may be the single worst piece of noise that has ever emerged with Frank's voice on it. You absolutely MUST listen to the REAL albums, such as Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Only the Lonely, Come Fly with Me and others. SAVE YOUR MONEY!! There are so many perfect Sinatra albums that I would feel terrible if you bought this mass-market rubbish instead of the others.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent example of the Chairman's versatility, December 18, 1999

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David Reynolds (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duets & Duets 2 (Audio CD)

The Man..No, the ChairMAN of the Board, has no equal. These albums, both 1 & 2, at his age when they were done, are demonstrations of style, technique, versatility, phrasing and admittedly some technology. No Sinatra fan should be without them.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Change Partners..., March 2, 2001

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svf - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duets & Duets 2 (Audio CD)

For rabid completists only...which would include myself. However, of all the Sinatra CDs in the universe to add to your collection, these should be the last. For the same money you can buy 3 or 4 classic Capitol or Reprise albums that are among the finest records ever made. If you already have Duets I or II and are considering buying this for the extra interview tracks, stay away... it's not interesting stuff at all and not worth the extra money. Many of these Sinatra performances would actually be worth hearing without the overdubbed "duets" by this strange cast of characters that only a marketing & PR committee could have ever dreamed up (Jimmy Buffet? Gloria Estefan? Luther Vandross? Bono????). In fact, "One For My Baby" is a beautiful, twilight reading tainted only by the thakfully minimal overdubbed soprano sax noodlings of the nauseating Kenny G. There are a few other near misses here: duets with Lorrie Morgan, Natalie Cole, Lena Horne, and Linda Ronstadt are okay... Still, this set will leave you cold and wanting to hear more of The Man and less of his phoned-in guests. (rumor has it that you can find a "black-market" CD of Sinatra's vocals from these sessions without the overdubbed duets [it's titled "Solos"]. Too bad Capitol Records hasn't released those tracks as a "Limited Edition" instead of this set.)