Sings His Greatest Hits

Frank Sinatra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1997)
• Original Release Date: June 26, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia/Legacy
• ASIN: B000002AIM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The House We Live In, November 1, 2001

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Readin' and Rockin' "M" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sings His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

For that one song alone, the album is worth it. You can go for the big box, or just this collection. They both contain his great, lovely, young Columbia voice. But on "House," he howls with all the force of a rock singer. It truly should be our national anthem.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL BOBBYSOX IDOL, April 8, 2001

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MOVIE MAVEN (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sings His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I cannot believe that I am the first person to review this superb album.

This Columbia "Legacy" CD has terrific artwork: a few pretty pics of Frankie at his skinniest-a real bobbysox idol, a new appreciation of Sinatra by Will Friedwald, an explanation by Charles Granata of how and why these specific songs were chosen (when it is obvious that a true Greatest Hits of Sinatra might be at least TEN CD's long). The original graphics & liner notes look great and the CD, itself, is painted to look like a long playing vinyl disc of the post WW2 years.

Then there are the songs, the interpretations, the arrangements. All impeccable. Sure, I could do without hearing "Nancy With the Laughing Face" or "The House I Live In" ever again but Sinatra is at his torchiest in "I'm a Fool To Want You," his most tender in "I've Got A Crush On You," his coolest in "Body and Soul" and his swingingest in "Sweet Lorraine." And if I've read the enclosed booklet correctly, that song has Nat King Cole on piano and Buddy Rich on drums!!!!!!!

Recorded from 1944 to 1952,the sound is remastered monaural and it is fine.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD OVERVIEW OF THE COLUMBIA YEARS, February 23, 2002

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ALAIN ROBERT (ST-HUBERT,QUÉBEC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sings His Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Four songs make this disc a treasure to cherish:ALL OF ME,SATURDAY NIGHT,BODY AND SOUL and TIME AFTER TIME are all incredibly nostalgic because in the case of the two SAMMY CAHN songs,these are the originals versions.The way the orchestra cooks on SATURDAY NIGHT is so representative of the forties it makes you wish to go back in that era.Many other songs are dated by today's standards,but the overall overview of the COLUMBIA years is perfectly realized.Many of these songs were recorded again in FRANK's CAPITOL years.It is fascinating to cite an example to compare I'M A FOOL TO WANT YOU with the one recorded in 1957 on the WHERE ARE YOU album.Fortunately for his fans,FRANK did not record THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE again.This is the SINATRA that women were crazy about to the point of even neglecting their husbands.Luckily for us,those days are over.