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Frank Sinatra: The House I Live In (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 14, 09

There's more to this than meets the ear … "A certain word, democracy." That's one answer to the big question "...

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Tommy Dorsey (featuring Frank Sinatra): How Do You Do Without Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Virtually all of Sinatra’s 83 studio sides recoded with Tommy Dorsey for RCA from February 1940 to June 1942 are towe...

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Frank Sinatra: From Here to Eternity (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Sinatra’s Capitol Records era began in April 1953 and lasted until March 1962. When he joined Capitol, Sinatra was co...

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Frank Sinatra: Jingle Bells (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 01, 08

What could be better than listening to Sinatra sing a swinging "Jingle Bells" every Christmas season? Nothing. For ye...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

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Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Frank Sinatra: September in the Rain (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 29, 08

One of the best things the jazz community ever did was to claim Sinatra as one of its own. We should be doing more of...

Frank Sinatra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

Frank Sinatra always seemed to have one foot planted in jazz and the other in pop, and there are few better examples ...

Frank Sinatra: How Little it Matters (How Little We Know) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

First recorded by Sinatra in 1956 for Capitol, this Carolyn Leigh-Phillip Springer tune was brought back for a retool...

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Frank Sinatra: Heart of Mine (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

This touching ballad is considered by many to be the Sinatra song that never was. Absent from even the most comprehen...

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Frank Sinatra: Change Partners (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Recorded six months after the Strangers In the Night LP, this bossa nova album is Sinatra’s best- produced package si...

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Frank Sinatra: How About You? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

"I like New York in June," sings Frank Sinatra. "How about you?" Obviously a trick question. Who, after all, is ...

Frank Sinatra: Love and Marriage (Rating: 78/100) posted in Music January 14, 09

Thanks to FOX, the first thing listeners will think of when hearing Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage" is not the Ch...

Frank Sinatra: We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

When Sinatra left Dorsey in mid-1942, he was seeking solo stardom. After signing with Columbia Records in 1943, he re...

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Frank Sinatra (with Count Basie): I Believe in You (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

This may be the best Sinatra swinger on Reprise from the early '60s. Count Basie’s band is in peak form and perfectly...

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Frank Sinatra: Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Most of Sinatra’s sides for Columbia are notable for their dramatic string arrangements and double-thick romantic moo...

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Frank Sinatra (with the Duke Ellington Orchestra): Follow Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Lerner & Loewe’s show tune from Camelot opens with Duke Ellington’s piano, followed by the band slinking along in str...

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Frank Sinatra: I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

A Swingin’ Affair! was Sinatra third 12-inch LP for Capitol and possibly his finest for the label. Nelson Riddle’s tr...

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Frank Sinatra: Here's to the Losers (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

This is Sinatra at his underdog best, a tribute to those who can’t seem to land right-side up. Like a Coleman Hawkins...

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Frank Sinatra: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

This update of a Fred Astaire number from the 1936 film Swing Time doesn’t glide across the ballroom floor—it struts....

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Frank Sinatra: Summer Wind (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 15, 08

For some reason, every time I hear this song I think of Chicago and the winds blowing off Lake Michigan. I can f...

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