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Topic: What is the best Sinatra mix you can come up with?

What is the best Sinatra mix you can come up with?
posted: June 4, 2008 - 3:24pm

I'm hoping they can put out a career retrospective, compiling the different recordings together from all the different eras. In the meantime, if you were to put a 2 CD collection together (or limit it to 2 1/2 hours) of your favorite recordings, which ones would you go with, even if it meant repeating one or two because you can't decide which one is the better of the two?
There's so much stuff..
It is so difficult to pick a
posted: June 5, 2008 - 1:40pm

It is so difficult to pick a favorit, one day i listen to A Man Alone, next day to Swing Easy, a fact is that his music can make my day, no matter how sad you feel, listen to Sinatra and you feel a lot better already!
Favorit singles are; Empty, younger than springtime, i have dreamed, cycles, i've got you under my skin, in the wee small hours of the morning, and a thousand more,,
He was and always will be the greatest performer of the American songbook.

Jan van den Berg.
Ahh, there's the rub...
posted: June 6, 2008 - 1:40am

I've attempted this many times. I'll try about 45 songs. That should be the length of two CD's, give or take.

It's a whole retrospective, from the James era to the end. And I'm skipping on some truly great stuff.

All Or Nothing At All
I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Never Smile Again
Say It (Over And Over Again)
Blue Skies
Night And Day
If You Are But A Dream
Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)
I Fall In Love Too Easily
All The Things You Are
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
Time After Time
Sweet Lorraine
Body And Soul
It Never Entered my Mind
It All Depends On You
American Beauty Rose
Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest
Hello, Young Lovers
I'm A Fool To Want You
I Could Write A Book
The Birth Of The Blues
Why Try To Change Me Now
Don't Worry About Me
Someone To Watch Over Me (1954)

That's disc 1. I'll try disc two tomorrow.