Some Nice Things I've Missed [Import]

Frank Sinatra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B000006L3Z
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,488 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Turned My World Around

2. Sweet Caroline

3. The Summer Knows

4. I'm Gonna Make It All the Way

5. Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree

6. Satisfy Me One More Time

7. If

8. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

9. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

10. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sinatra's Greatest Contemporary LP, March 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Some Nice Things I've Missed (Audio CD)

This album, recorded a mere 5 days after his nation-wide tour that celebrated his coming out of retirement, shows a middle aged Sinatra singing songs of the day, 1974 to be exact. With the exception of 'You Turned My World Around', 'The Summer Knows', 'If', and 'What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?', this album is all upbeat. This is an album that is actually fun to listen to. In my opinion, the best songs include Satisfy Me One More Time (his most sexually explicit song), I'm Gonna Make It All The Way (semi-country), If (much better than the original), and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. While the songs on this album are not the best choices for him to sing, he sounds like he is having a blast singing them. And, to me anyway, if the singer sounds like he is enjoying himself, it makes the album a pleasure to listen to. This is a must for anyone who likes Sinatra's later material.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much Don Costa and not enough Gordon Jenkins, September 21, 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: Some Nice Things I've Missed (Audio CD)

The initial excitement over Frank Sinatra's return caused by "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back" dissipates somewhat with his next effort, "Some Nice Things I've Missed." As the title indicates, most of the tracks on this album are songs that were popular during the period of Sinatra's retirement such as Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," David Gates' "If," and Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." However, there are some bad choices in terms of how some of these songs are produced. Apparently in keeping with the idea of Sinatra doing things his way, most of these songs are turned into big band efforts. I suppose "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" can work as a big band number, but "Sweet Caroline" does not. The end result is that the better tracks are those that are slowed down and scored simply, such as "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" The other decent tracks are "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," "If," "The Summer Knows," and "You Turned My World Around," only the two of which actually fit the motif of the album. On both albums there are two arrangers, Don Costa and Gordon Jenkins, and the results are the same both times. Jenkins provides the 5 star material and Costa the 3 star; the balance tips up on the first album but down on this one, resulting in a 3.5 album where we have to round down. Put all the Jenkins tracks together and you would have the last great album of Frank Sinatra's career. Instead you have one above average and one below average effort.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Was A Very Good Year, June 25, 2008

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Bicycle Day - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Some Nice Things I've Missed (Audio CD)

When Frank Sinatra decided to build upon the momentum from the critically-acclaimed October 1973 comeback album - Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back - he did it with a style that was truly befitting of the Chairman of the Board.

In 1974, Sinatra undertook a tour, which included opening the Richfield (OH) Coliseum and a televised extravaganza from Madison Square Garden, chronicled in the release, The Main Event: Live.

And with arranger/conductor Don Costa, Sinatra tackled 10 contemporary numbers that were adopted for big bands, but had a cool swing to the musical vibe from the early 1970s.

Sinatra is too hip with the hop he puts into Jim Croce's Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, and is the leader of the pack with his interpretation of Stevie Wonder's bittersweet, You Are the Sunshine of My Life. Both numbers were mainstays in his concert play-list.

The nearly 29 minutes of music also features solid vocal interpretations of Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline, Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree and You Turned My World Around.

This is a relaxed Sinatra, having fun in the studio and with renewed confidence. That this CD is out-of-print and only available on import just shows how the music industry works in mysterious ways.

With 1974 being a banner year for this American entertainment icon, it seems fitting that at some point this studio release and the live CD are issued together in a package that celebrates the return of Sinatra to the bright spotlight of center stage.