[C.R.E.]

Hey, am I missing this one on this sub-forum? I didn't see it listed...

the 1966 album? If this is a dupe..you can delete this...but I didn't see this one up here yet.

(Reprise Records, 1966)
With Count Basie & the Orchestra
Arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones
Produced by Sonny Burke
Recorded January 26-February 1, 1966,
at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas
22 tracks / running time: 75.52 / Stereo

1. Come Fly With Me
(Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)
2. I've Got a Crush on You
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)

3. I've Got You Under My Skin
(Cole Porter)

4. The Shadow of Your Smile
(Johnny Mandel/Paul Webster)

5. Street of Dreams
(Sam M. Lewis/Victor Young)

6. One For My Baby
(And One More For the Road)
(Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)

7. Fly Me to the Moon
(In Other Words)
(Bart Howard)

8. One O'Clock Jump (Basie instrumental)
(Count Basie)

9. "The Tea Break" (monologue: 11.48)

10. You Make Me Feel So Young
(Mack Gordon/Josef Myrow)

11. All of Me
(Seymour Simons/Gerald Marks)

12. The September of My Years
(Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn)

13. Luck Be a Lady*
(Frank Loesser)

14. Get Me to the Church on Time
(Alan Lerner/Frederick Loewe)

15. It Was a Very Good Year
(Ervin Drake)

16. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
(Ted Koehler/Rube Bloom)

17. Makin' Whoopee!
(Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson)

18. Where or When?
(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)

19. Angel Eyes
(Earl Brent/Matt Dennis)

20. My Kind of Town
(Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)

21. "A Few Last Words" (monologue: 3.04)
(R. Rodgers/L. Hart)

21. My Kind of Town (Reprise)
(Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)

*appears on 1998 CD edition and the 2003 DVD-A edition.

This is just such an exciting album. When you listen to it, you can really feel the electricity in the air. His voice was wonderful; selection of material was wonderful; the arrangements were wonderful. The song that particular gets to me is Don't Worry About Me. That is so beautiful. I just wish I had 100 more live albums like this from Sinatra. I can dream.

Dennis

[C.R.E.]

I agree with you Dennis. This album is the consummate Sinatra Live album of the late 60's. I wish there were more material out ther

(It's one of those threads that does a disappearing act!)

SINATRA AT THE SANDS will be re-released August 12 in DVD-Audio format 5.1 Surround Sound. Prepare your Sub-Woofers!!!

[Rich K]

Don't you need more than the standard dvd player to play a dvd-a? How much of the equipment already out there is capable to reproducing this?

[C.R.E.]

This will be great.

Wait?! Do you mean my regular DVD won't play this? Why?


(Thank goodness I have patient neighbors...I will be cranking this come August )

We have quite a large discussion about this album BTC (before the crash). It was arranged & conducted by Q, 1966, Francis being 51 years old, and in great humor and voice.

"During the wailing of the Basic band, those jammed, perched, squoze to the sides of the room can see an anxious figure peering out at the band from the stage wings. Catching the mood of the crowd-Frank Sinatra! Looking not unlike a young man calculating his audience for his first talent night appearance. The suave is dropped. The performer is getting himself up for one swinging night's sing.

Again, the amplified voice lets them all know. "And now....A Man and his Music!" The band ups to the occasion. And he walks on. Doesn't gallop on, doesn't wave or jump or hoopla. Just he walks on. His pocket handkerchief folded in there nice. A bit of a vest peerking out from under his tux coat. He pulls the hand mike out of the stand, glances up at the light booth where a thousand pounds of spotlight bear down on him. His shoulders hunch once, like they're absorbing the beat of Basie. He turns back to Quincy, Count & Co., smiling, extending the vamp. GO! Sonny Payne whacks his drums to stir up more groove". --Stan Cormyn

Personally, I love the "tea break". I can sit for hours and listen to him talk, and of course, sing! The Count and his Orchestra does a set of "One O'Clock Jump" that is far out!

My fav, if you can select one of these 22 cuts, is "Where or When", Rogers and Hart.

"Yeah.... .That Sinatra....he really puts on a show."

Which may not be the best sum-up in the world, but then you can't expect much more from someone who's just been through 90 minutes with the best singing man in town!"

you

[C.R.E.]

I enjoy this album en todo. Nice reflection from luxunehaus.....it really is an exciting album.

I enjoy the Monologue....stand up is not Frank's fortay, but he is pretty clever on this one.

I like when someone salutes him with a toast and he says "Cento Anni"

Most standard DVD players & PCs (with DVD player software) WILL play the DVD-Audio format. (There are super-advanced DVD-A players which further support the format.) CD players do not play DVD-Audio discs.

If your current DVD player is hooked up for 5.1 Surround Sound, then you'll hear SINATRA AT THE SANDS that way - it's very similar to a regular DVD with no picture. If your player is hooked up for Stereo then that's the way you'll hear it. (Like all sound systems, you'll hear as good as your amplifier & speakers also permit.)

Why DVD-Audio? Simply because the format is able to hold much more sonic information than a regular CD is able to.

[Rich K]

Thanks Rick. So I guess (guess...I KNOW) I'll be buying this version too, with the DVD-A alongside the two cd versions (the first didn't have "Luck Be a Lady" and doesn't sound as full) and the lp. At least I never bought an 8-track version.

[C.R.E.]

Thanks for the heads-up! Sounds good

[alan.murrie]

I can't wait for this album to be re-released in DVD-Audio format! I have it already on CD, albeit the version without "Luck Be A Lady", so this release means I get both the 5.1 sound and the missing track.

Although I have a full 5.1 system and have been buying DVDs for some years now, I have yet to hear the quality of a DVD-A disc. The improved sound will score all the higher with Frank's voice testing it out.

[C.R.E.]

I am ready for this baby to hit the shelves.

[Rich K]

I was listening to this album the other day and for the first time it occured to me that the voice of the announcer's at the very beginning of the album might be Martin Gable's. (He and wife Arlene Francis were friends of Frank's and Martin appeared in two Sinatra films....as a gangster in one of the Tony Rome movies and as a museum curator in The First Deadly Sin.
The more I listen to that voice, the more it sounds like Martin Gable (sp?).
Nancy, do you know if this is the case?

***Why DVD-Audio? Simply because the format is able to hold much more sonic information than a regular CD is able to.***

And of course, also because Warner is pushing the DVD-A format against the SACD competition by Sony. The race is not decided yet but so far SACD has huge advantages over DVD-A.

Overall I can still see no reason why we should be buying all the same stuff all-over again, and even buy new equipment to listen to it. But then, that's what the companies want us to do. Only a few years back we were tempted by "24 bit remasters" on CD even when we already had the stuff on CD, now it's DVD-A, and next year they will find something else. Whenever it includes bonus material, ok. Whenever not, it's just market, not preserving music. Let's not forget Reprise has a whole WEEK of Sinatra performances from the 1966 Sands engagement they compiled the album from. How about a NEW album made from these recordings?

Bernhard.

This album is by far my favourite, it captures Mr Sinatra in his element. Im looking forward to hearing it again this time in surround sound, however I don't quite know how it can be reproduced in surround if it was never recorded in surround.
I assume with todays digital technology the engineers can chop
it up and reassemble the recording in this new sound, we'll have
to wait and hear I guess.

In response to your question Rich K about the identity of the opening announcer, I believe it is William Conrad, he sure has
a Cannon of a voice anyway.

Do we know how it was recorded?

Even a True Stereo 3-track analog master can be processed for a most respectable 5.1 Surround Sound.

Maybe Warners are planning to knock the socks off every picky audiophile in the world with this release!

If not, we can always get some old FS 78s from eBay, crank up the Victrolas and listen as true purists.

[alan.murrie]

<<Even a True Stereo 3-track analog master can be processed for a most respectable 5.1 Surround Sound.>>

Very true. If 1950s movies like 'Some Like It Hot' and 'North By Northwest' can be remixed well enough into 5.1 sound formats, then there's no reason why "Our Man Frank" can't be.

I'm hopeful for this release...

[C.R.E.]

Ok...what about the section of the monologue where FS says "Welcome to Jilly's West....where the elite meet, to eat..."

what does he mean when he says;
"and if I rhyme that, this'll be a BARN in the morning"


I don't get it...what is the double entendre there? meet and sleep? Meet and get some action? ?

I don't usually fall for this kind of marketing stuff, but I think the DVD-Audio of "Sands" could be quite impressive. I hope it is.

To borrow a bit of Nick Hornby "Its one of my Top 5" live albums, ever. And if it makes me feel like I'm in the room more than it already does on normal CD, then I'm there (with whisky in hand).