Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Gold CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Music Label: Artanis Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture - Nelson Riddle
  2. My Kind Of Town - Frank Sinatra
  3. All For One And One For All - Peter Falk & Chorus
  4. Don't Be A Do-Badder - Bing Crosby & Kids
  5. Studio Chatter - Dean Martin/Sonny Burke/Frank Sinatra
  6. Any Man Who Loves His Mother - Dean Martin & Male Quartet
  7. Studio Chatter - Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Bing Crosby/Sammy Cahn/Sonny Burke
  8. Style - Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin
  9. Mister Booze - Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr.
  10. I Like To Lead When I Dance - Frank Sinatra
  11. Bang! Bang! - Sammy Davis Jr.
  12. Charlotte Couldn't Charleston - Ladies Of The Ensemble
  13. Give Praise! Give Praise! Give Praise! - Robin And The Seven Hoods ST
  14. Don't Be A Do-Badder (Finale) - Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr.
  15. Studio Chatter - Frank Sinatra/Lowell Frank
  16. My Kind Of Town - Frank Sinatra

Music reviews of Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

Music Review: this is my kind of cd
Rating: 5 Stars

this is the only cd available of this movie soundtrack of what has become sort of a cult-following flick (up there with ocean's eleven among sinatra's best films), so if you want it, you will have to shell out twice the going rate, to get the overpriced, hokey gold cd, but it is worth it to get this music (and the gold cd sure is shiny...)

the sound quality on this digitally remastered cd is really as good as advertised, but perhaps, to rationalize for overpaying for this cd, i imagined hearing nuances and tones that were no different than on a normal cd. nelson riddle's orchestrations are the usual great, swinging 60's sound, and everyone's voices are in top form.

the cd liner notes interestingly point out that sinatra was distracted twice during the final wrap up of the movie, in fall of 1963, once when president kennedy was assassinated and then when sinatra's son was kidnapped, and shooting was held up for several days in each instance, but while frank may have worn a graver expression during the last bit of filming, his singing voice was fine to the last.

there are four really good songs in this movie -- "my kind of town", "don't be a do badder", "style" and "mister booze."

"style" has the most pizzazz, what with its vaudeville straw hat and cane schtick, key changes and build up to a finale, and has frank, dean, sammy and bing each taking a turn out front and is as much a visual treat on dvd as an audio one here.

"mr. booze" is a "sit down you're rockin' the boat" kind of "testifyin'" song, and "do badder" is a "high hopes" kind of semi-cutsey kids' song, complete with a little hispanic boy shooting a rubber tipped arrow at bing, singing to all the mini-archers in an orphanage.

"my kind of town" is of course now a sinatra trademark, a la "my way" and has become the windy city's unofficial anthem and a comiskey/wrigley pipe organ song, but is nevertheless a great cahn/van heusen song, and again, if you have the dvd, is a visual treat to watch frank interact with the cast as he works the crowd and builds the song to its finale.

the other songs are not bad, being by cahn and van heusen, but are basically fluff, inserted in the score to give rat pack a stage to perform, but it is a treat to hear them sing (as it would be to listen to them read the phone book...)

if you are a frankophile, a ratpacker or collector of 60's movie soundtracks or just want a movie cd with a few good songs, get this one. even at its high price, it is well worth the money.

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Description of Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

By 1964, with the Beatles' fame exploding all around them, the heyday of Frank Sinatra's fabled Rat Pack was just about over. But if they were daunted by middle age, the rapid encroachment of rock & roll, or simply the volatile presence of each other, there's no trace of it in their rollicking musical spoof of Robin Hood, the Warner Bros. gangster flicks of the 30's and 40's, and--crucially--themselves. Perhaps inspired by their irreverent, recently recorded Broadway romps for Sinatra's Reprise label (Guys and Dolls, Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me, Kate, and South Pacific), the Pack (including, as it did on Guys and Dolls, guest Rat Bing Crosby) took the freewheeling nature of those records to the big screen and to this original score for the motion picture. The seven musical "hoods" here are Sinatra, Crosby, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, and composer/conductor Nelson Riddle. All showcase their resumés well, from Sinatra's rendition of the familiar "My Kind of Town" (also included as a bonus track is a previously unreleased alternate version) to Davis's show-stopping ode to cold-blooded murder, "Bang! Bang!" And lest anyone take the proceedings too seriously, they hand off "All for One and One for All" to that somewhat less than noted crooner Peter Falk and let Crosby preach the Gospel of "Don't Be a Do-Badder" and "Mr. Booze" as--wait for it--a temperance lecturer! With the original album long out of print and here making its debut on CD, this edition restores the Rat Pack's lively film swan song to its full sonic glory. --Jerry McCulley

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