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It Was a Very Good Year

You got 'em,I might be able to post em in real audio.

1 posted on 06/03/2004 1:50:35 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar
While they may not be counted among the BEST Sinatra songs, a couple of my favorites are:

"Luck Be a Lady"
"Fly Me to The Moon"

I also like the one that you posted, "It Was a Very Good Year."
2 posted on 06/03/2004 2:14:03 PM PDT by Jaysun (If a person says that he enjoys the opera, that person is a liar.)
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To: mdittmar
I also think "It Was a Very Good Year" is my favorite. The tempo changes & orchestration are excellent.

I also like "Girl From Ipanema" with Antonio Carlos Jobim.

And of course, Sinatra's version of "Fly Me To the Moon" is the best.
3 posted on 06/03/2004 2:32:11 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: mdittmar
Are You Lonesome Tonight

Change Partners

Come Rain Or Come Shine

To name just a few..I love then all.

8 posted on 06/03/2004 3:18:55 PM PDT by lysie (Accumulating FRequent FReeper miles.)
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To: mdittmar
Day By Day
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
9 posted on 06/03/2004 3:22:30 PM PDT by lysie (Accumulating FRequent FReeper miles.)
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To: mdittmar

Embraceable You


10 posted on 06/03/2004 3:26:25 PM PDT by lysie (Accumulating FRequent FReeper miles.)
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To: mdittmar

As a life long Sinatraphile; it's so very difficult to choose just ONE "best" Sinatra song...because there are so many ~ I'd have to say that every song in the "Sinatra-Jobim" album (released 3-1967) is a gem, the same is true for "The September Of My Years" album as well. (released 8-1965)

That said; in my own opinion, it'd probably come down to a choice between the recording of "You Make Me Feel So Young" (released 3-1956)and the recording of
"What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life";(released 7-1974) but, that's like comparing apples to oranges.

"Young" is a swingin' tune,(arranged by Nelson Riddle, from "Songs For Swingin' Lovers") while "What Are You Doing" is a serious ballad.(Arranged by Gordon Jenkins, from "Some Nice Things I've Missed".)

Buddy; chooseing a favorite or best Sinatra song is like chooseing which of your children you love the most... it's impossible !


12 posted on 06/03/2004 3:55:48 PM PDT by Biblical Calvinist (Soli Deo Gloria !)
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To: mdittmar

When I read your header, the first song that zinged into my mind was "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning". I can still remember my dad playing it over and over and Sinatra's smoky, boozy, poignant loneliness must have really touched something in me since he recorded it in 1954 and I was only five.

"When the sun is high
In the afternoon sky
You can always find something to do
But from dusk til dawn
As the clock ticks on
Something happens to you

In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never even think of counting sheep

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You'd be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You'd be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all."


16 posted on 06/03/2004 5:21:51 PM PDT by ironmaidenPR2717 (True friends laugh when your jokes aren't that funny&sympathize when yr problems aren't that serious)
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To: mdittmar
My favorite:

Fairy Tales can come true

It can happen to you

If you're 'Young At Heart'.

17 posted on 06/03/2004 5:59:26 PM PDT by uvular (I'm uvular, and I have approved this tagline)
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To: mdittmar

These songs come to mind:

The Girl Next Door

The Way You Look Tonight

Fly Me to the Moon

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Come Fly with Me

My Kind of Town

Young at Heart

Strangers in the Night


20 posted on 06/03/2004 6:18:44 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Communism failed because people like to own stuff.)
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To: mdittmar

I don't know the best but I would have to rank the Disco version he did of "Night and Day" among his worst.


25 posted on 06/03/2004 9:23:38 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: mdittmar; All

FYI

This syndicated radio show (on in Houston on 790AM KBME Friday 6:30PM-8:30PM) is good. It offers different records of Frank's songs throughout his career.

According to the website, there are even links to the stations that stream the program.

What Is Frank & Friends?
http://www.jimraposa.com/sys-tmpl/door/


26 posted on 06/03/2004 9:37:33 PM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: mdittmar

I agree with "That's Life" and several others but you forgot "Witchcraft". And one called "I Believe in You"
and please, if you do Strangers in the Night, leave out the dooby-dooby-doo. It's been dooby-dooby-done already.


32 posted on 06/04/2004 9:43:27 PM PDT by mean lunch lady (A picture is worth a thousand words but it uses up three thousand times more memory...)
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