any ideas........bought a couple of compilations......frankly the quality of the recording is crap.
If you have a record deck buy some original LPs - they are surprisingly easy to find in decent condition and can usually be had for a fiver or so. I'd recomend Songs for Swinging Lovers first, but make sure its an original 50s or 60s pressing - look for a flip-back sleeve and a black Capitol label with a 'rainbow' surround. A great album and sounds so much better than the CDs! Any original Capitol or Reprise pressings are worth having, I've got about 12 now! Tony.
I have 'My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra', which is a double CD best of compilation and has always sounded great to me. It has 46 songs and, for the most part IMO, they are all top notch: My Way Strangers In The Night Theme From New York New York I Get A Kick Out Of You Somethin' Stupid Moon River What Now My Love? Summer Wind For Once In My Life Love And Marriage They Can't Take That Away From Me My Kind Of Town Fly Me To The Moon I've Got You Under My Skin Best Is Yet To Come It Was A Very Good Year Come Fly With Me That's Life Girl From Ipanema Lady Is A Tramp Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Mack The Knife Love's Been Good To Me L.A. Is My Lady Lets Face The Music And Dance Come Rain Or Come Shine Night And Day The Very Thought Of You Pennies From Heaven Bewitched America The Beautiful All The Way In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning The Way You Look Tonight Three Coins In The Fountain Softly As I Leave You All Or Nothing At All Yesterday Moonlight Serenade Somewhere My Love Mrs Robinson Something You Are The Sunshine Of My Life Send In The Clowns It Had To Be You The Best Of Everything Hope that's of use, Chris (who didn't do it his way but bought a best of album instead because it was easier and cheaper)
Goomer, Not a big fan of old blue eyes at all, but I do possess a 180g reissue (simply vinyl I think) of "Come Fly With Me" - one of his late fifties albums I think - recording quality is excellent. I imagine your best bet may be to find some of the vinyl originals - I don't think they are outrageously priced and a quick flick on ebay suggest this is so.
Cheers for that, Uncle Ants. I do have a couple of bits of Frank on vinyl but have the CD for, well, sheer laziness really, and so that my girlfriend can play it when she wants to (she's too scared of touching the t/t). How's the camper project coming on?
Ahh. The Camper project. Well the interiors done (just a few snagging issues to sort out), complete with a customised cabinet for the Dansette, BUT she's been at the menders with a duff alternator - should pick her up this afternoon. I'll post pics when I have some. Looking forward to a week out in her at the end of May and hoping to have some al fresco vinyl sessions in a field
Top stuff - I'd love to see the pics of the finished article, as the 'in progress' ones you've posted look excellent. By the way, I think there's a combined Bug Jam/Music festival happening again this year somewhere in Norfolk, so if you're looking for a location for a holiday in July/August(can't remember when it is) then let me know and I'll send you details. Chris.
Just got her back I'll get onto the guys and see what they have - they said they were taking some pics as they went along.
Goomer, Checked the Sinatra album I have last night and its an EMI pressing (they did some 180g pressings back in 97 to celebrate their 100th anniversary). Like TonyL says, your best bet is probably some original releases if found in good nick.
Cheers, Uncle Ants - I think my Dad has most of the Reprise releases along with a box set of the Columbia years, so I shall probably just wait until his back is turned..... Chris.
Nancy not Frank Sounds like a plan. On a slightly off topic but Sinatra related subject I have to say I'm a much bigger fan of Nancy than Frank and having dug out my one and only old blue eyes album after yesterdays conversation I just had to put on the Nancy album sitting next to it - Boots. Boots is an old favourite of mine - if you ever see it, jump at the chance - a truly cool record with some excellent cover versions. As Tears Go By, It Ain't Me Babe and Day Tripper (especially Day Tripper) - all done in a fantastic Austin Powers stylee. Plus a great picture of Nancy looking saucy on the front Actually one where the CD has bonus tracks which make it mebbe worth while to get the silver spinner rather than the vinyl as it has The City Never Sleeps at Night on it, which is a great track. Its not on the original album but was the b side to the Day Tripper 45.
It's the tights, isn't it? I've been looking for this (cheap) for a while now but hadn't realised there was a bonus track on the cd - I might just have to splurge again.... Cheers, Chris
Yup, its the tights ... or maybe the boots, or the miniskirt ... or possibly that "Come and get it if you dare" look in her eye :JPS: Mind you, I just checked on Amazon UK and they haven't got it. US Amazon seem to have a few copies though. I got my vinyl one off ebay for a fiver - not mint, but not far off.
Everyone needs a copy of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's 'Nancy and Lee'. it is essential. Life is somehow empty without it. I need a stereo copy, it would be, well, just more stereo than my mono copy. A mad album, more country and bizarre than country and western... Tony.
Is that the one where Lee Hazlewood sounds like a tape running at half speed singing We've Lost That Loving Feeling ? I got it a few months back at a record fair but so far only listened once. Will give it a whirl tonight I think. PS. Goomer - a factual error above - The City Never Sleeps at Night was the b side to These Boots Were Made for Walking, not Day Tripper.
I have a stereo copy and, no, you can't have it. How can you possibly have "Some velvet morning" without stereo? And I can't imagine that version of "Elusive dreams" ever being bettered. Billy Strange's arrangements are central to the whole enterprise and are truly marvellous. Back to the subject of Sinatra, Francis Albert, "In the wee small hours" is also a great album. Before he became an institution to which all felt obliged to pay due homage regardless of actual worth, Frank could caress a song lyric better than anyone.
That'd explain it. I bought it at a record fair and chucked it on for a spin - Lee Hazlewood and the "HAL losing his mind" effect probably made me take this record a little less seriously than perhaps I ought. I'm definitely going to give it another whirl tonight then. PS. Dunno if its a stereo copy though.
I saw that Nancy Sinatra is playing at the Festival Hall in June as part of Morrissey's Meltdown Festival: http://www.nme.com/news/108317.htm PS. Tones, Had a listen to Nancy and Lee - a mix of loveliness and downright oddness in fairly equal measure. That first track still throws me though - I still expect Lee Hazlewood to say "Don't do that Dave, I'm losing my mind Dave, I can feel it" before bursting into Daisy Daisy. Very different from Boots in style much more easy/lounge to Boots' pure pop.
