Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra & Friends | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Reprise Records
• ASIN: B000002KCZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This features TWO GREAT HARD TO FIND tunes!, December 7, 2001

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S. Henkels (Devon, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

And most of the other reviewers seem to agree. "Cycles" is again Frank as "everyman", though it's hard to think he "got fired" from any job. "Love's Been Good to Me" is the other,a wistful look at a man who is probably alone,but looking back at past loves and travels.Both belong in the ultra Sinatra collection."My Way" ,okay maybe it helps sell the album. "A Man Alone" also very fine,but on the big Reprise collection. "Star" reasonable enough,and hard to find elsewhere. "Sept of my Years" an all-time misty eyed nostalgic beauty,available on many Reprise collections. The rest is mainly forgettable,especially "Going Out of My Head",another big hit of the time (Was it Dionne Warwick?),which seems embarrassing today. But yes,a treasure, if only for the first two terrific rarities.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A real bummer-and I mean that in a good way!, July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Some critics say that "She Shot Me Down" or "Only the Lonely" or "No One Cares" are Sinatra's really "sad" albums. However, I beg to differ. Listen to this album if you want to hear sad. Maybe not sad in the traditional sort of way. I think some of Sinatra's other blue albums become bogged down in technique or trying too hard to be sad. With this album, the compilers have unwittingly gathered a collection that my girlfriend says is too sad to listen to. Is it the age? the maturity? the knowledge and pain Sinatra brings to these songs? I don't know, but the one Sinatra song guaranteed to bring tears to my eyes is "Cycles". Add this one to your collection and see if you can find your life in these lyrics.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected Gems Where You' d Actually Expect Them, September 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

This album covered the short period from the release of Frank Sinatra's first Reprise Greatest Hits album to his short-lived 1971 retirement. There's much to muddle through here: the revered version of "My Way," the lesser version of "Something" (which he did much better w/Nelson Riddle on "Trilogy") some movie songs and his strange but lovely version of Joe Raposo's "Bein' Green." But then you get to "Cycles," originally the title track of an album of 60s covers. This song, featuring a piano fill which recalls Floyd Cramer, sports the sad, resilient elegance of his 50s blue concept masterpieces like "Only The Lonely." When Sinatra sang, "So I'll keep on trying to sing, but please...just don't ask...me now." it carried a bit more resonance in light of what had occurred but months before.