Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
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Artist: Frank SinatraEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Come Fly With Me
- Around The World
- Isle Of Capri
- Moonlight In Vermont
- Autumn In New York
- On The Road To Mandalay
- Let's Get Away From It All
- April In Paris
- London By Night
- Brazil
- Blue Hawaii
- It's Nice To Go Trav'ling
- Chicago - (mono, bonus track)
- South Of The Border - (mono, bonus track)
- I Love Paris - (bonus track)
Music reviews of Come Fly With Me
Music Review: Sinatra in Orbit
Rating: 5 Stars
Frequently, the Master Storyteller is singled out for his ballad albums ("suicide songs," he called them), indisputable masterworks like "Only the Lonely," "No One Cares," "Where Are You," "September of My Years," "Close to You"). Although it's certainly true that Sinatra elevated the ballad to the level of "art song," living out for each of us the angst of, say, Harold Arlen's "Last Night When We Were Young," it's equally indisputable that Ole Blue was also the "Swing Master," learning his craft when a bandmate with Buddy Rich in the Tommy Dorsey band and eventually provoking Basie's foremost latter-day drummer (before Jo Jones), Sonny Payne, to proclaim: "Sinatra is the only singer who could make me swing."
Given Sinatra's versatility (as a ballad singer, and even as an interpreter of the "big" show tunes like "If I Loved You," "I Have Dreamed," "When You Walk Through A Storm," and "Soliloquy" from Carousel), it's easy to emphasize that dimension of his titanic talent at the expense of his ability to swing. But even before his first Reprise album with Count Basie, Sinatra was practically the vocal equivalent of a Basie or Oscar Peterson, swinging harder than any other vocalist to have come out of the so-called "big band," or "swing" era. He was winning "Downbeat" polls in the 1950s because musicians were already recognizing him as the most swinging musician on the planet.
In the tradition of most of his Capitol albums, this is a "concept" date, but with a difference. Sinatra rarely put out a Capitol date with a mix of tempos. It was either a swing album or a ballad album. Gordon Jenkins was often the favored arranger-conductor for the ballad sessions; Billy May for the swing dates; Nelson Riddle the all-purpose conductor-arranger, responsible for Sinatra's best swing albums ("Songs for Swinging Lovers") as well as the most poignant ballad sessions ("Only the Lonely"). "Come Fly with Me" is unique among the Capitol sessions in its mix of tempos--alternating between swingers ("Come Fly," "Road to Mandalay") and ballads ("Moonlight in Vermont," "Autumn in New York").
Although Billy May (nor any other American arranger, for that matter) doesn't come up with a Riddle miracle like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Come Fly With Me," beginning with the title song, is one of Sinatra's most essential Capitol albums, catching the singer in good voice and equally high spirits. The stories about Billy May are legendary--scribbling arrangements in the cab on the way to the studio, taking quick but plainly visible swigs from a bottle of vodka with his non-conducting hand to loosen up the band, being invited to follow Ole Blue to Reprise but declining simply because he sensed nothing could be as much fun as Capitol sessions such as this one--and that spirit shines through with every note--played and sung--on this album..
"Come Fly with Me" is practically mandatory Sinatra for the title track alone, though most of the other songs are equally essential. You haven't heard "Road to Mandalay" unless you've heard Ole Blue's version. "South of the Border" receives the solid swinging work-out that it deserves. "Chicago" is a joyous complement to the singer's even more popular "My Kind of Town." "Brazil" is a tune he did when I caught him in concert at least 20 years after its appearance here. "Blue Hawaii," I'll confess, is a tune I could have left to Bing, but Sinatra's is a nice contrast. Of my 80-90 (and counting) Sinatra albums (not counting downloads and anthologies), this one ranks in my personal top 20% only to leave room for a "desert island" collection, should it be necessary to downsize for that purpose (I've selected my 5 desert-island Sinatra discs--representing the 3 major periods and 3 labels--Columbia, Capitol, Reprise--in the Listmania section to which all Amazon visitors are invited to contribute).
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More from Ole Blue Eyes
 Classic Sinatra |  In the Wee Small Hours |  Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely |
 The Capitol Years |  Songs for Swingin? Lovers |  Come Dance with Me! |
When critics refer to Sinatra's Capitol albums, their highest praise is usually reserved for the dark melancholy of Wee Small Hours or Only the Lonely. But the upbeat "Swinging" records should not be ignored. Probably the finest of these albums is Come Fly with Me. The first of Sinatra's albums with arranger Billy May (whose arrangements have been overshadowed by Nelson Riddle's), Fly is the conceptual equal of Lonely-a carefree, romantic musical travelogue. From the opening invitation--one of Sinatra's most rollicking vocals--to the tender invocations of "Autumn in New York" and "April in Paris," and the serene seductiveness of "Moonlight in Vermont," Sinatra personified the modern traveler--jaunty, cosmopolitan, irrefutably cool. --Steven Mirkin
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