[Castle]

I found this album today at a used record store. I'd never heard it before so I bought it, dusted off the turn table and just listened. One word "masterpiece"

[Nancy]

Amen.

[erniegy]

Originally Posted by David B.

Sound quality most definitely matters, but I have been moved to tears listening to Here's That Rainy Day through my little laptop computer speakers, too. He's that good. And so was GJ and that orchestra.

OK, I am a bit late on this one, it's just come up in the Amazon list of things to buy. Someone tell me please if this version of Here's That Rainy Day is on any other set with Gordon Jenkins.

[Nick_Bradley78]

Here's that Rainy Day is on the 3CD "The Capitol Years" set released for the 75th birthday.

[Bob in Boston]

Besides The Capitol Years, "Here's That Rainy Day" is also in The Platinum Collection. And both of those collections include an extra ten seconds near the end of the song with French horns which were edited out of the album version.

Another disc with (the edited version of) this song is Classic Sinatra II.

Bob in Boston

[erniegy]

Thank you. I don't have any of those.

[Tina...]

I love the live version on " Vegas Live"

[irene soggia]

Sono tanti, tanti anni che ho " No One Cares " ma non smetto mai di ascoltarlo.
Un vero capolavoro di architettura musicale !

There are many, many years that I have "No One Cares" but I never stop listening to it.
A true masterpiece of musical architecture!

[Nancy]

I really wish you would all sign up for Sirius XM so you could enjoy Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71

[sschweiger]

Re: "Here's That Rainy Day"--It was introduced by John Raitt in a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke musical called "Carnival In Flanders." Eunice and I saw Raitt with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, about two years before he died. On that lovely evening, the star of "Carousel" and "Pajama Game," in his 80's, was still matinee idol-handsome, and in fine voice.

A JR quote that evening (from a 3x5 card) -- "this next song is from one of my resounding flops, and if it wasn't for Frank Sinatra's superior version, I wouldn't be singing it at all!" And Raitt proceeded to do a beautiful version of "Here's That Rainy Day!"

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Nancy

I really wish you would all sign up for Sirius XM so you could enjoy Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71

I can highly recommend it

[irene soggia]

Originally Posted by Nancy

I really wish you would all sign up for Sirius XM so you could enjoy Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71

Cara Nancy, sarebbe un mio sogno poter ascoltare "Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71"... ma io sono in Italia.......

Io posso consolarmi solo con i miei " GIOIELLI di FRANK " !!!


Dear Nancy, would be a dream of mine to listen to "Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71"... but I'm in Italy .......

I can only console me with my " FRANK's JEWELS"!

.......ALL THE WAY !!

Happiness to you, !!!

[Keith]

Originally Posted by irene soggia

Dear Nancy, would be a dream of mine to listen to "Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71"... but I'm in Italy .......

You can still connect Irene - I will send you a message with the link!

Marty helped me to get connected so I will pass on the information

[irene soggia]

Originally Posted by Keith

You can still connect Irene - I will send you a message with the link!

Marty helped me to get connected so I will pass on the information

Thanks Keith !!



..... but there is a time zone and I think that when it aired here in Italy .... it's night!

[Mr. White]

Are you guys sure that the blonde on the left of the album cover is Peggy Lee? It doesn't really look like her. I always thought it was Angie Dickenson. Coincidentally she would play Mrs. Ocean in Ocean's 11 about 6 months after the release of this album.

[sschweiger]

This is "Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Jenkins, & Sinatra" rolled into one!" Or, to use one of my favorite apt descriptive phrases -- "How Great Is Great?"

[Nancy]

Dear Nancy, would be a dream of mine to listen to "Siriusly Sinatra, channel 71"... but I'm in Italy .......

Irene, it seems to me if Lourdes can hear us in Brazil you can in Italy too. The show airs at different times of the day and night throughout the week.

Irene, me parece que si Lourdes nos puede escuchar en Brasil se puede también en Italia. El programa se transmite en diferentes momentos del día y de noche durante toda la semana.

This is radio from a satellite! Esta es la radio desde un satélite

[Rich_Silverman]

The first four sung notes on the title song are brilliant. "When no one cares..." It's almost classical/operative. Very dramatic without crossing the line to cheese. God bless Jimmy Van Heusen. I love that man. Wish I could have met him (and let's not forget Sammy Cahn!).

[The Unvoice]

Love them both too.
Jimmy, what a rascal.

[RobMich]

For years after the original LP was released, it was my favorite Sinatra ballad album. I was already totally immersed by those other wonderful collections, such as "Wee Small Hours", "Close to You" and "Only the Lonely", but maybe it was because this particular set of songs somehow seemed especially to touch my inner emotions. I can still remember getting chills at his version of the old chestnut "Stormy Weather" and "Cottage For Sale" is absolutely sublime. Gordon Jenkin's arrangements alternately soared and simmered. It still seems to me that recording sessions like these contained a special type of musical magic. Astounding !! Rob