Sinatra - A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen [Import]

Frank Sinatra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B000006L3X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,584 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Man Alone

2. Night

3. I've Been to Town

4. From Promise to Promise

5. The Single Man

6. The Beautiful Strangers

7. Lonesome Cities

8. Love's Been Good to Me

9. Empty Is

10. Out Beyond the Window

11. Some Traveling Music

12. A Man Alone (Reprise)

Editorial Reviews

Ol' Blue Eyes' 1969 album for his Reprise label sees Francis Albert covering the songs of Rod McKuen. 12 tracks total.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Man Alone is the Real Frank, March 2, 2005

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R. P. Storch "Storchfamily" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This is one of my favorite Sinatra records. The Only time Frank does an entire album of one composer songs and he pick Rod McKuen. To quote Mckuen from his "Frank Sinatra An Appreciation" "Running Jumping Standing Still, Frank Sinatra is the tallest man I know. The story goes, Rod ask Frank to do one of his songs. Frank took a look at the stuff and said "Rod I'll cut an entire album of your stuff". A Man Alone was made during March of 1969 and we find Frank in great voice, singing about being alone with a honesty that only Frank can express I believe this may be as close to the real Frank as we'll find again for the rest of his recording career. This is one of the last times that Frank goes out a limb and does something different and his hits a home run

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A deep and emotional album., July 1, 2000

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Stephan Mayer (sacramento, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sinatra - A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen (Audio CD)

This album was not a great commercial success but the songs, arranging and the overall theme are superb.

If you are down and alone and think life has done u in, you MUST have this one.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Man, March 7, 2006

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Natashia Flynn (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sinatra - A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen (Audio CD)

For a long time, I admit, I was a little afraid of this album; its bad reviews and general lack of prestige do not quite suggest greatness. But here's a case just like ''Moonlight Sinatra,'' ''All Alone,'' ''She Shot Me Down,''and a number of other Sinatra records - overlooked brilliance.This is a flawed album, certainly, but I'm sure that somewhere there's an akward brush stroke on ''The Mona Lisa.'' Since I first heard the title track I've listened to it over and over and over again. There was an article by music critic,ect. Gene Lees, written around this time for Sinatra's album ''Cycles''- and in it was the perfect definition for ''A Man Alone.'' He wrote that this remarkable performer sounded like he was becoming a remarkable man. Where ''Only the Lonely'' and ''All Alone'' ached with a suicidal desperateness, this album is sadly wistful. The pain is still there, but with it is wisdom, and the near-tears depression of the earlier albums has evolved into a sad smile. It's obvious that Sinatra, along with Billie Holliday, was THE autobiographical singer; for me, that's the source of his brilliance. Where Sinatra ends and acting begins is impossible to measure. Ingrid Bergman said flatly of her luminous role in ''Casablanca,'' ''There was nothing in my eyes.'' But this is without a doubt - Sinatra. He supposedly told the composer Rod McKuen,''Man, you really got inside me.'' Listening to ''Love's Been Good to Me,'' and ''A Man Alone'' is more than listening to a singer sing a song - it's listening to Sinatra sing Sinatra. Frank Sinatra the man does not appeal to all tastes. But if you take the time to dig through all the trash and filth it's very likely you'll change your mind. The Sinatra in ''A Man Alone'' does justice to Lees' comment. He sounds like a remarkable man, all right. (Incidentally, I am fourteen years old and have read over two hundred books on Sinatra, watched thirty of the movies, and heard every record I could lay my hands on. I've been at it since I was eleven. You don't have to have been a bobby-soxer at the Paramount to appreciate Sinatra. He was the only entertainer who transcends all boundaries.)