DateDecember 22, 2010
Miracler
Kelly Niland
Location
San Francisco
Now just exactly what is going on here?
Looks like Christmas came (3 days) early: two mixes of someone you've either dug but didn't have enough of, don't think you dig but are about to, or already have plenty of but are curious to see what someone else digs. Frank Sinatra, an original crooner of Miracles, celebrated his birthday (from Heaven) earlier this month, and in his memory, witness: What The Pottery Barn CD Left Out. This is Your Hostess' desert island Sinatra collection.*
Two mixes? Is that necessary?
Indeed, since this fella can’t begin to be captured in one, we’ve got two short mixes here (the swingy and the mellow) which begin to touch on the many facets of Frank.
A very merry Christmas/holiday to you/yours
See you back here next week,
XOK
* Doug Patterson-approved
13 comments:
Never can get enough Sinatra.
I'm most diggin' the Mellow Frank mix, Kelly. Maybe its' a seasonal thing?
My favorite Sinatra album of all time is "Stranger's In The Night," his big comeback album from 1966. Nelson Riddle deserves double billing for that masterpiece-- the arrangements are all crazy perfect. That organ in "Summer Wind"... the bongos and bennied-up horn line on "The Most Beautiful Girl"... "Downtown" and its tooty-tooty into....
Funny to think of Frank being an artist of the highest order in the post-Dylan/Beatles world. Sinatra wrote almost none of his own songs.
Weird imagining Frank and Mia Farrow as a Hippy Era couple.
I think this settles that silly Sinatra vs. Mel Torme debate. I have many of these songs on other CDs but the ordering and split between Mellow and Swingy makes these must-listens. Molto grazie, Ms. Niland!
I've never been a big Sinatra fan. But I'm really liking this mix. It's nice, with a tinge of sadness. My exposure to Sinatra has been mainly the "hits" - I should have explored much further than that.
No Sinatra retrospective would be complete without this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/3531/saturday-night-live-the-sinatra-group
RIP, Phil Hartman.
-- kellen
That's good stuff. So's this—Joe Piscopo's Frank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3-2Z2rmG0w
It's 30 years old at least, but I still appear to know it by heart.
THUMB!
Kelly, my darling,
Great idea, and just in time for Christmas. The family loves it. Listening now.
big hug,
Gioia
I made a copy for some family friendlies. Bangles and baubles etc, had not heard that one.
ps Kelly I left the bribe candy in your mailslot. cvs
impressed by the subtly of these mixes, and you know subtle and Sinatra don't usually sync. very nice KSN.
the mellow mix was good & mellow but I prefer Swingy, which swings. Thanks for sharing.
:)
Finally got home from an extended holiday vacation to download the mix. It was perfect (somehow) for taking down the tree. First the swingy mix, which made it seem very festive. Then the mellow part which cast a layer of melancholy on the whole event. Just like Christmas. Perfect.
What a valuable resource, and I love the split. It's amazing how Sinatra is appropriate for both the peaks and the valleys in life. My Dad would have loved this mix.
Thanks KSN for such a great walk down memory lane; a good chunk of these are some of the first songs I learned (along with the Lerner, Loewe, Rodgers, Hart and Hammerstein canon). A perfect antidote to too many playings of "Wonderful Christmastime".
Where did the version of "How Little We Know" (with the studio chatter) come from?
Steven, it's kind of mysterious—I'm not sure where I got it, but the album art (bad painting of Frank sneaking a smoke behind a sculpture in a town square at dusk) appears to be called 'Point of No Return,' though the album cover for the same song file comes up as 'The Capitol Collectors Series.' And getting weirder, there also seems to be a tag related to the song that links it to a cheesy-looking album called 'Sinatra 80: All the Best.'
Not much help at all, but I'm glad you like the mixes.
XOK
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