Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

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

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.

Description of Frank Sinatra's Robin & The Seven Hoods

Broadway & Vocalists CDs

• Music > Styles
• Jazz
• Pop
• Soundtracks