Sinatra At the Sands [Original recording remastered, Live]

Frank Sinatra, Count Basie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000006OBQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (137 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,104 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #82 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Classic Vocalists

Track Listings

1. Come Fly With Me

2. I've Got A Crush On You

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. The Shadow Of Your Smile

5. Street Of Dreams

6. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

7. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

8. One O'clock Jump

9. Frank Sinatra Monologue

10. You Make Me Feel So Young

11. All Of Me

12. The September Of My Years

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. Get Me To The Church On Time

15. It Was A Very Good Year

16. Don't Worry 'bout Me

17. Makin' Whoopee

18. Where Or When

19. Angel Eyes

20. My Kind of Town

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Pop this on, close your eyes, and you'll be instantly transported back to the Vegas of 1966. The Sands Hotel was still the "class joint" where Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies partied, held court, and occasionally even performed. This priceless document (Sinatra's first official live album) captures the Chairman of the Board in performance mode, ably supported by conductor-arranger Quincy Jones and Count Basie and his Orchestra. The set list comprises 16 Sinatra classics--including "Come Fly with Me," "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "Angel Eyes"--along with two Basie instrumentals and some seriously un-P.C. stage banter. Essential. --Dan Epstein

Product Description

Out of print in the U.S.! CD reissue of this Franktastic live album featuring Sinatra backed by Count Basie & His Orchestra arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. Originally recorded in 1966, this album remains the definitive Sinatra live experience with the backing of a full orchestra. 21 tracks including 'Come Fly With Me', 'The Shadow Of Your Smile', 'Fly Me To The Moon', 'I've Got You Under My Skin', 'All Of Me' and many more. Universal. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SINATRA CONCERT MASTERPIECE~BRAVO FRANK!!!, September 15, 2004

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Bradly Briggs (TOLUCA LAKE, CALIFORNIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sinatra At the Sands (Audio CD)

Sinatra singing superb in Concert at The Sands with Count Basie And THE Orchestra arranged and conducted by no less than Quincy Jones and it really doesn't get better than this! Opening with a hot sounding Basie band, Frank smoothly launches into a superb "Come Fly With Me", then an engaging and fun "I've Got A Crush On You" and onto a killer version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" that finds Frank at his sophisicated and soulful best!!! Torch time is sublime with a richly sung "The Shadow Of Your Smile" then to a riveting "Street Of Dreams" that shows why Sinatra is King!! Four A.M. in a saloon and the master serves a classic "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) and the audience goes crazy for this masterpiece!!! Sinatra is incredible throughout this legendary event and swings "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) like it was never swung before and you can feel the excitement from the audience and the great time they were having. Mr. Sinatra's fun monologues were thankfully left in and what special moments these are that never grow tired taking us back to another time and space in a very special way...Frank does a routine that is fun and funny about his friends Dean and Sammy that are priceless...Frank had just turned 50 and gives a personal view that is revealing and highly entertaining flowing into the definitive version of "You Make Me Feel So Young" that is so brilliantly sung showing the master at his absolute peak in magnificent voice!!! Basie does a gorgeous "All Of Me" then Frank returns with a hauntingly brilliant "The September Of My Years" that is amazing. A hot cooker "Get Me To The Church On Time" is another amazing vocal as is the stunning "It Was A Very Good Year". Frank Sinatra is so great in this concert making this event the male equilivant of "Judy At Carniege Hall" which is the other legendary concert album from the great musical sixties! "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" is another masterpiece in a remarkable collection which finds Frank so loose and soulful and it is clear that the audience is having a great time and so will you! Basie does a mesmerizing "Makin' Whoopee!" then Sinatra returns and nails classics such as the swinging "Where Or When", a haunting "Angel Eyes", and a soulfully sung "My Kind Of Town" which all show the master at his captivating best! This musical journey is the greatest concert performance released in Frank Sinatra's long and brilliant career..BRAVO Frank and we miss you!!! This masterpiece is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys vocal artistry at its peak in a live concert setting...

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frank Sinatra and Count Basie's Orchestra, circa April 1966, April 16, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sinatra At the Sands (Audio CD)

"Sinatra at the Sands," recorded in April 1966, was the first Frank Sinatra concert to be released commercially. Sinatra is singing with Count Basie and his Orchestra, which was conducted by Quincy Jones. As you would expect, this is classic Sixties Sinatra, putting on a show for the Las Vegas crowd performing the songs you would expect the man to sing, starting big with "Come Fly With Me" and finishing even bigger with "My Kind of Town." The best of these tracks are "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Come Fly With Me," where the arrangements for the Basie Orchestra are arguably an actual improvement over the original recordings. However, when Sinatra goes to his repetoire of saloon songs the results are more mixed; after all, he is singing in a really big room. One of my all time Sinatra favorites, "It Was a Very Good Year" is a bit disappointing for me, but this is offset by his performance of "Angel Eyes."

Sinatra's between song banter displays the expected level of charm, although the mavens of political correctness will wince several times while listening to some of the jokes in his rather long monologue. "Sinatra at the Sands" offers up almost an hour of live singing from Ol' Blue Eyes, once you subtract the talking, and shows that there are a few songs (e.g., "Luck Be a Lady Tonight") that you might actually prefer to hear Sinatra sing live. Final Note on Album Notes: The album notes by Stan Cornyn won the 1966 Grammy for Album Notes, his second year in a row for winning that award for a Sinatra album (See: "September of My Years"). Do they still give out that particular Grammy? Anyhow, I was vasilating between 4 and 5 stars for this review, but those album notes tip the scale up for sure.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Voice and the Count shine, August 23, 2003

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Dave Mock ""...brotherhood is not so wild... (Rockville Centre, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sinatra At the Sands (Audio CD)

In baseball terms, Frank Sinatra was a power pitcher. And "Sinatra At the Sands," now remastered, presents a veteran hurler at the very top of his game, surrounded by Gold Glove teammates -- Count Basie and his Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Basie's protege, a young Quincy Jones.

In fact, the Basie band doesn't accompany Sinatra as much as propels his songs forward -- especially Sonny Payne's incomporable drum work. These are driving, powerful tunes, even the ballads, and Sinatra's strong, confident delivery is matched perfectly by the powerful, swinging "in-the-pocket" tempo of the arrangements.

Both "Fly Me to the Moon" and "My Kind of Town" manage to be even better than the studio recordings. And in "One For My Baby" and "Angel Eyes" Sinatra shows off something in his voice you rarely associate with the Chairman: Heartache.

Knowing that the album was a product of the macho 60s, not the more "enlightened" 21st Century, I still cringe when I hear Sinatra's jibes at Sammy Davis Jr. during Ol' Blue Eyes' "Tea Break" monologue. And in listening to "I've Got You Under My Skin," I admit I miss the strings that build the anticipation up in the bridge to the powerful trumpet-and-trombone interplay in the middle of the song.

But the places where the album shines fare outnumber those that it doesn't. For pure musical enjoyment, "Sinatra At the Sands" is a gem, from the first pitch to the final play.