Another vote for Sinatra and the GREAT Tom Waits.
“Small Change” is a masterpiece and easily the best album of the 70s. The cover included an up & coming actress (Cassandra Peterson) posing as a stripper who later became “Elvira”.
Frank...is simply the best of the best. A friend is a LA-based mastering engineer who has made CDR dupes of the studio master tapes for me including all of Frank’s hits...Nat King Cole albums, too. Many are “dry” before the dreaded reverb was added for the commercial release.
I wouldn’t be throwing your buddy under the bus for making bootleg copies. That is a big no no.