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Music : A Voice in Time: 1939-1952
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A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 by: Frank Sinatra List Price: $49.98 CD-Charts Price: $26.97 You Save: $23.01 (46%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886970966924 Format: Box set, Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: Sony Release Date: September 25, 2007 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 2301 MPN: 709669 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - A Sinatra TreasureSome years ago I purchased "Frank Sinatra: The Capital Years." "Frank Sinatra: A Voice in Time (1939-1952)" is the perfect companion to The Capital Years. Covering his recordings on the Bluebird and Colombia labels, the listener hears a Sinatra quite different from the swinging Sinatra of the 50's. This is the balladeer par excellence. Many recordings include the arrangements of Alex Stordahl which fit in so well with Sinatra's smooth delivery. The Box Set is comprised of 4 discs entitled "The Big Band Years (1939-1942)," "Teen Idol (1943-1952)," "The Great American Songbook (1943-1947)" and "The Sound of Things to Come (1949-1952). Several of his recordings from from the 1940s feature his backup group, the Pied Pipers with ... Read More: Rating: - What the Fuss Was All AboutI am a huge Sinatra fan. I have dozens of his CDs and LPs. I have read a number of books about him. To me, he is the greatest American male singer. (Ella Fitzgerald is the greatest American female singer.) I purposely overlooked his early career. To me, his career was his recordings on Capitol and Reprise. I had no interest in his early stuff. Big mistake, and this set of recordings on Columbia proves it. From the first disc, when he is the "boy singer" with the band, it is apparent that he was a force. That man could sing his rear end off! He shifted the attention from the band to himself. The rest of the CDs trace his career from band singer to "rock star" to his ascension to "Chairman of the Board". The recording quality is excellent. ... Read More: Rating: - From an Old Blue Eyes fan...The book and pictures brought back a lot of memories as I was one of those"bobby soxers" that cut school to go see him in San Francisco. I have listen to to CD's non stop since receiving them.. Rating: - COLUMBIA'S STUPIDITY MORE OBVIOUS THAN EVER!Just having listened to the samples proves to me more than ever that towards the end of his Columbia years, Frank was already the more mature singer he would be at Capital. It's easy to ask 'How could Mitch Miller have been so dumb?' More to the point, how could the bosses at Columbia have been so dumb when they fired Manny Sachs his predecessor and hired Miller away from Mercury? It was because he had such success with Frankie Laine. It was a change in popular taste which had something to do with WWII and a loss of innocence, a sense of dislocation, whatever. Miller's trend-catching gimmicks worked for a while. But if Frank had been allowed to stay at Columbia and record whatever he wanted no matter how it sold, he likely would have come upon the idea ... Read More: Rating: - RemasteringThis set is the best Sinatra remastering jobs that I have heard. It is fantastic. The tune selection was obviously done with love by his family. The Dorsey disc was not only outstanding but had solos by Bunny Berigan,Ziggy Elman and Babe Russin to name a few. |
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