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  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Reprise Catalog: Music Release date: 2006-11-07 Media: Audio CD discs number: 5 Format: Box set, Live Ean: 0081227407520 Upc: 081227407520  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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 Written on January 14, 2008 Summary: Sinatra with too much chatter The Sinatra Vegas boxed set is a gorgeous product, including two flyers reproducing early '60's billboards advertising Sinatra's Vegas acts. The accompanying booklet is well done and the cds and dvd are well packaged; the graphics are great. The not so good news, if you like your music straight, is that as advertised, these are recordings of Sinatra's Vegas acts over the years. You get extensive commentary from Sinatra, ad lib, together with alterations of many of the standards he sings, which are not always either interesting or funny, at least not now, anyways. This is in fact, the Sinatra that a lot of people love to hate. The superbly talented vocal stylist, a performer with magnificent breath control and an almost uncanny knack at teasing the heart out of a song, is subordinated to the Rat Pack Frank, the not particularly charming side of one of the premier vocalists of the 20th century. If you don't mind Sinatra without apologies, the crude, not particularly funny and often boorish Sinatra, this is a fine set. For my money, however, the Capitol Years set of Sinatra is much better value for the money - it's just the music, no funny biz, just Sinatra singing at the peak of his form with the skill and vocal control that just about no one but Sinatra could manage.  Written on January 10, 2008 Summary: Didn't He Give Them His All? I see just about everyone has given this a five star review. And how couldn't you? For starters Sinatra at the Sands circa 1961 is absolutely vintage. The musical arrangements by Neil Hefti are positively brilliant. Not only is the Chairman of the Board in great voice, he's also obviously in a great place in life. And why not, he's comming off three great movie triumphs Neil Simon's "Come Blow Your Horn", "Hole In The Head" and the difinitive Rat-Pack flick, the classic "Ocean's Eleven". Next up we get the wonderful paring of Frank and The Count Basie Orchestra, live at The Sands 1966. Most are familar with their terrific live recording that has become essential listening for all Sinatraphiles. Here we get a different show from the same engagement that is every bit as perfect and equally entertaining. Disc three, Live at Caesars Palace 1982 finds Frank beginning to stretch to hit the right notes. It's obvious he's "on the back nine" but he's Sinatra and he virtually wills himself to do things that came effortlessly twenty years earlier. Admittedly the final CD, Live at The Golden Nugget 1985 is the weakest of the lot. But even here Frank demonstrates his ability to win over an audience with his wit, his charm and his inimitable personality. Finally we have this fabulous DVD performance live at Caesars Palace May 1978. What a show!!! I guess at this point in life Frank felt that he had done it all. Like Caesar himself, Frank had conquered all that was within his reach....He had recorded an unparaelled cannon of albums and was the undisputed heavey-weight champion of the great American songbook. He made some great movies and had an Oscar to prove it. He even dabbled in politics and rubbed elbows with Chamelot. So it was in 1978 that Frank had nothing to loose and like a high stakes gambler he had the unmittigated confidence to lay it all on the line. There's no denying, the voice was not what it once was. But who was going to tell that to Frank? Sure he knew it, but he also knew that no one was in his league when it came to interpreting a great lyric. Sinatra had a fondness for Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Khan & Jimmy Van Huessen. And why not? These lyrics were custom fit for him just like his tuxedo was. Saloon songs, torch songs, comming apart at the seams songs, drunk songs, unrequited love songs....Show tunes, slow tunes....Blues, rhythm & blues and jazz...All these and more were his and his alone. For on-stage he truely was an Emperor.... And his legions...they simply could see no wrong in him. And why not? Didn't he gave them his all? Frank often quoted Bogart, "a great performance is all you owe the audience, nothing more, nothing less. And no one can deny, Frank gave it his all every time he stepped onto the stage. OF INTEREST: The DVD Sinatra At Ceaser's Palace 1978. The opening 10-15 minutes is backstage footage of Frank warming up in his dressing room. The opening comedy act is Jackie Yale, a third-rate comic, whose political incorrectness goes as far as Idie Amean doing Louis Armstrong. The stage monitors are turned up high so you really don't get any audio from Frank. As he leaves his dressing room various handlers and hotel employees interact with him. He's handed drinks and a towel to mop his brow. He stops and talks with several individuals, a waiter and his old "pally" Jilly Rizzo. He poses with a boxer. I'm not certain, but I think he's Carlos Monzon, the great Argentinean middle-weight champ. We all know how much Frank loved boxing. So he's sparring with Carlos, posing for photos with him and embracing him, even kissing him. Carlos or whoever he is looks like he's just been blessed by the Pope. His eyes are all teary, his lower lip is quivering. He looks like he doesn't know wheather to climb onto Frank's leg and hang on or run to the men's room to change his underwear. It's all too funny. Finally Frank approaches the stage and proceeds to give Jackie Yale "the hook"....Yea I mean it...He gives him the old heave-hoe from backstage. Watch all this leadup closely. It's interesting to observe Frank in a rare, relaxed and candid moment. In fact this was indeed the only occasion where Frank agreed to be filmed behind the scenes. I only wish they had an open microphone, so that we could hear what was being said. Then again I don't think Frank would have allowed us to evesdrop on his conversations. He'd probably have our lights put out. But that's OK.....As Dean often said "It's Frank's world, we're just happy to be part of it". Written on January 2, 2008 Summary: LAUREN BACALL WAS RIGHT....... .....she said that Sinatra should just shut up and sing. Couldn't agree more. Love Frank - LOVE THE VOICE!. Ever since a friend brought some old gray label Capitol lps up to college in the 70s telling me that I had to hear this guy (this guy who I only knew through the execrable Strangers In The Night.) Mind blowing - Riddle's 15-bar intro, silence, then solo "Night and Day (BAM!!) you are the one....." I was hooked. Had the previlage of seeing Mr. S. three times, one in particular was an outstanding 50s swingin' type of night in a rare appearance in San Francisco. Many have already written about the excellence of the singing on the earlier discs. The song that always does it for me is Moonlight In Vermont - an extremely beautiful, though difficult song to sing. The middle has a difficult transition - the notes have to slide into each other, from bridge to verse. Mr. S nails it, I mean NAILS IT. Even Frank (as opposed to Mr. S) can't resist commenting on it (chuckling "goddamn!") Unfortunately, "Frank" gains the upper hand over Mr. S as the years go by. It's not that the pipes are gone by the 80s - they're not, by a long shot, even though there is lots of growl and bark in The Voice. But it's "Frank" as opposed to "Sinatra" who is in charge. No more so than on the DVD. Even in this "cleaned up" version (see review #1) Frank is a loud-mouthed, pugnacious alcoholic in the classic sense. Drinks in hand before the show, during the show, and after the show, Frank barks and roars about Hearst being a schmuck ("It doesn't matter if he's dead...he's still a shmuck") gets confused (Tom Bradley becomes the "best mayor in the city") and mean spirited (re: My Way "I hate that song. HATE IT. You sing it for 8 years and see how you feel about it). And then there's the opening comics dated racist humor ("where are the jews in this southern town? Hangin' from that tree ovah there-ah" and how about his imitation of dictator Idi Amin AS LOUIS ARMSTRONG??!!??) Even with the editted stuff, it's pretty horrific. Still there's the singing. That timeless, beautiful singing. No question though why CBS never aired this show. The crudity overshadows the singing when it is both seen and heard. The alcohol continued to be poured into the body, and Sinatra eventually made his sad, mute, immobile television exit in a TV special with Olympia Dukakis several years later - an empty, silent, shadow of his former glory. Bottom line - buy the set and LISTEN to it. Watch the DVD and cringe once, but LISTEN TO IT! Written on December 24, 2007 Summary: My Mom's Christmas Present My mom loved her present.She has wanted it since last year and we couldn't find it for her. She will get many hours of enjoyment out of this CD set. Written on December 20, 2007 Summary: This is why he was Sinatra This demonstrates Frank Sinatra in his 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. Shows how he learned to adjust to the loss of his vocal control. No wasted tracks on any of the cds or dvd. I only hope there will be more of Sinatra live released SOON! The live with Basie is superior to the popular released version. And the 1987 concert is remarkable. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2006-11-07 | 2007-09-25 | 2008-05-13 | 2006-09-26 | 2007-01-16 | 1990-12-13 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Format | Box set, Live | Box set, Original recording remastered | Original recording remastered | - | - | Box set |
| Ean | 0081227407520 | 0886970966924 | 0081227993689 | 0828768097922 | 0094636337722 | 0077779431724 |
| Upc | 081227407520 | 886970966924 | 081227993689 | 828768097922 | 946363377222 | 077779431724 |
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