The Reprise Collection Music Cd

Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Collection

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The Reprise Collection      Artist : Frank Sinatra      List Price : $108.98 USD        Your Price : $108.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-12-08      Studio : Warner Bros UK      Label : Warner Bros UK      Avg. Customer Rating : (37 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Reprise Collection      Excellent collection      Rating:      This has all the Sinatra favorites. If you need to finish your collection this is one to have.     Customer Reviews for The Reprise Collection Cd      "Without A Song . . . The Day Would Never End"      Rating:      "Acting is integral to Sinatra's singing - not histrionics, but skillful, sensitive acting of lyrics and melody, with definite phrasing, economic use of italics, controlled gestures of voice, face and body, and a foundation of understated passion, he turns each song into a one-act play." ~ David McClintick, Liner Notes ~ This four-CD-box-set, "The Reprise Collection" is a great compilation of Frank Sinatra's recordings during his Reprise years and most definitely a worthy addition to any Sinatra buff and collector. The collection producers, Mo Ostin, Joe McEwen and James Isaacs did a great job in this tribute to Frank Sinatra's 75th birthday and his 30th anniversary as a Reprise artist. Disc One contains 21 songs and the rest of the CDs contain 20 songs each -all remarkable recordings highlighting the illustrious and bright years of the legendary singer at Reprise. Some of the tracks are previously unreleased. Recording engineer Lee Herschberg made sure that the digital mastering and remixes are flawlessly done. The sound quality is excellent. The packaging is quite impressive and comes with an attached booklet with articles, photos and a thumbnail of 98 Sinatra albums. The interesting and informative articles are as follow: 1. "So Frank Is Seventy-Five" by William Kennedy 2. "Questions Without Simple Answers" by David McClintick 3. "The Songs - An Introduction" - list and annotations of all the songs by Jonathan Schwartz 4. Afterword written by James Isaacs The selection represents the works of the most brilliant and remarkable Sinatra arrangers/conductors/orchestrators such as Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Johnny Mandel, Gordon Jenkins, Don Costa, Claus Ogerman, Robert Farnon, Sy Oliver, Quincy Jones with Count Basie Orchestra, Neal Hefti, Eumir Deodato, Torrie Zito, Marty Paich, Ernie Freeman, Billy Strange, Joe Parnello and Billy Byers, and also features pianist Bill Miller and guitarist Tony Mottola. My list of favorites includes: Disc One: "Love Walked In," "The Second Time Around," "Let's Fall In Love," "Night And Day," "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To," "Come Rain Or Come Shine," "What'll I Do?" "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "The Last Dance," "All Alone," "A Garden In The Rain," "A Nightingale Sung In Berkeley Square," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Without A Song," with lyric that ends with . . . "I'll never know what makes the rain to fall I'll never know what makes the grass so tall I only know there ain't no love at all without a song." Disc Two: "The Way You Look Tonight," "Moonlight Serenade," "This Is All I Ask," "Fly Me To The Moon," "Oh You Crazy Moon," "Pennies From Heaven," "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "I Have Dreamed," and of course "America The Beautiful" and "California." Disc Three: "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Shadow Of Your Smile," "Wave," "Indian Summer," "How Insensitive," "Once I Loved," "Dindi," "I Concentrate On You," "You Make Me Feel So Young," "Summer Wind," and "Something Stupid." Disc Four: "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?" "More Than You Know," "Send In The Clowns," "It's Sunday" and "The Song Is You," with beautiful lyric that ends with . . . "Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing? The beautiful rhapsody of love and youth and spring, The music is sweet, the words are true The song is you." I could go on and on with all the good things about this set but suffice it to say that this is one of the best-ever compilations of Sinatra recordings and I wholeheartedly recommend it to avid Sinatra fans. In closing, I share Mr. Isaacs sentiments written on the Afterword . . . " . . . Most of all, thank you, Mr. Sinatra for a monumental body of work, and for speaking to me when seemingly no one else could. Over the past 50 years perhaps 100 million other human beings have felt the same." ~ James Isaacs, August 1990 ~ Editorial Reviews for The Reprise Collection Audio Cd      Amazon.com      The pundits claim that Ol' Blue Eyes did his best work with Columbia in the '50s, but there's more great '60s and '70s stuff here than you can shake a stick at. After all, Sinatra wouldn't start his own label only to sing schlock. This four-CD set was released to celebrate The Chairman's 75th birthday and it traces the mellowing of that tremendous voice like the aging of a fine wine. It also adds eight unreleased tracks to a staggering song list highlighted by biggies like "New York, New York," "My Way," "The Way You Look Tonight," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "The Song Is You." --Michael Ruby