Frank Sinatra - Live From Las Vegas
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Artist: Frank SinatraEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Intro & Announcement/A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening (instrumental)
- I've Got The World On A String
- What Now My Love
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- My Heart Stood Still
- Luck Be A Lady
- I've Got A Crush On You
- Mack The Knife
- Monologue
- The Girls I've Never Kissed
- For Once In My Life
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Maybe This Time
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- One To A Customer
- I Have Dreamed
- My Way
- New York, New York
- Bows/You Are There (instrumental)
Music reviews of Live From Las Vegas
Music Review: In the palm of his hand
Rating: 5 Stars
18 months after the death of his friend Nelson Riddle, (on-or-about his 71st birthday in 1986) Frank Sinatra found a special way to pay tribute to America's greatest orchestrator: At this live show Sinatra chose to introduce an all-string arrangement by Riddle of the Gershwins' enduring love song, "Someone to Watch Over Me."
It's an exquisitely beautiful `new' arrangement (reminiscent actually of the best work of Robert Farnon --- the Canadian-born `King of Strings' as Quincy Jones dubbed him --- whose death, last month in Britain, went unnoticed in his homeland.).
But no --- it's a `new,' never-before-recorded Nelson Riddle arrangement. As the singer accepts the applause at song's end, he gives credit where it's due, saying: "That's a lovely song! What a marvelous song! The Gershwins! And Nelson Riddle's orchestration! Thank you very much! I love singing it, it's a great song!"
Sinatra immediately launches into a (then) "new song" by Ebb & Kander "Maybe This Time" - expressing hope that this would become "a new standard." (It didn't - disappearing without a trace, through no fault of Frank Sinatra, who gives it a great rendition here.) The song's brassy, bright arrangement by Frank Foster subsides at its end, with a quiet, innovative jazz-combo resolution . . . reminiscent of Sinatra's best band arrangements from Don Costa (whose mid-tempo, `in the groove' swing orchestrations were Sinatra's favorites in his final years of live performances). The singer wistfully speculates that . . .
"Maybe this time I'll be lucky! Maybe this time she'll stay! Maybe this time --- for the FIRST time --- Love won't hurry away! . . . All the odds are in my favor! Something's BOUND to begin . . . it's got to happen sometime! Maybe this time I'll win!"
Now, building from strength-to-strength, The Master segues into the next song, asking conductor Bill Miller: `Whaddya got (next)? Oh! Cole Porter! Cole Porter is so deserving to be one of the members of the club here!"
As the orchestra breaks into Nelson Riddle's famous, swing version of the song most Sinatra fans say is their all-time favorite, the singer announces, "Nelson Riddle's most identifiable orchestration, I believe this would be. It's bigger in Japan than it is here!
"I've got you under my skin . . . "
This performance is surely the best-ever, live version --- the orchestration, the recording-engineering is unsurpassed. (The "At the Sands" rendition of 20 years earlier, pales in comparison.) After a `false ending' (and Sinatra's spoken acknowledgement over the applause, "Cole Porter, Nelson Riddle,") the singer and musicians break into another, 40 second chorus, more enthusiastic than before --- again with Sinatra rising to the occasion with his strongest singing of the night, subsiding to his softest voice - no longer reduced to a croak, as at earlier moments of the `concert.'
And, speaking of concert . . . the singer bestows on this audience the most breathtakingly beautiful renditions (with original Nelson Riddle arrangements) of TWO songs from "The Concert Sinatra" album of 1963, featuring Sinatra's favorites by Broadway composer Richard Rodgers --- "My Heart Stood Still" (lyricist Larry Hart) and "I Have Dreamed" (words by Oscar Hammerstein II).
To hear a large orchestra "live" with a good-sized string section this well recorded, is sheer delight: The singer expresses sentiments many of us share to this day, about "My Heart Stood Still." The audience is teased with choice words of introduction: "Ah! this was written by Rodgers & Hart and orchestrated by the great Nelson Riddle, and it is one of the FINEST love songs ever done and I hope you enjoy the way we do this thing --- if not, I'm gonna cry!" And suddenly the years melt away as a younger sounding Sinatra recalls:
"I laughed at sweethearts I met at schools . . .
All indiscreet hearts --- seemed romantic fools!
A house in Iceland was my heart's domain . . .
I saw your eyes
Now castles rise in Spain . . ..
I took one look at you
That's all I meant to do . . .
And then
My heart stood still . . . .
The master of breath control holds his final note (in loud sustain) for 18 seconds. If that doesn't sound impressive, (for ANY singer, not just someone 71-years-old) . . . try singing along! And try it at full volume.
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Beyond a natural, phenomenal vocal ability -- which enabled Sinatra to perform like this in his 70s -- the singer actually turns weaknesses into strengths. The occasional `croakiness' (on softly-sung passages) is magically transformed into endearing vulnerability . . . an emotional fragility that lesser singers never convey, on their best day.
Listening to this remarkable recording, you can hear for yourself how the `entertainer of the century' blossoms and shines -- casting a warm spell over a loving audience. Performer and listener become as one --- rather like dance partners . . . recalling something Sinatra himself once observed --- that an audience is rather like a woman: If she senses indifference in her suitor, then the party's over! ( "Endsville" as the old swinger would say.)
And that love dance is happening here --- a fascinating moment-in-time, captured for those of us who missed our chance to be there . . . to hear Sinatra "live" in the autumn of his career.
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Late in the program the singer makes a noble attempt to introduce a "sweet new standard" by "Leiber and Stoller who wrote all of Elvis's big hits." The songwriters (who two decades earlier gave Peggy Lee "Is That All There Is?") provided Sinatra with "The Girls I've Never Kissed." One listens and wonders if any male singer, even at the peak of his abilities, could ever rival Sinatra's late-in-life rendition of this lovely ballad: a memorable melody, oh-so-poignant lyrics . . . caressed by an old Master who holds us - his rapt audience - lovingly, in the palm of his hand . . .
"The old wolf sniffs the summer breeze . . . and dreams about his youth . . . .
And the scent of honey in the trees -- whets an old sweet tooth . . .
The pretty girls go strolling by
I smile at them and heave a sigh . . .
And think of all the things I've missed
And all the pretty girls I've never kissed . . .
Description of Live From Las Vegas
One in a series of 8 titles to celebrate May 15th, 2005 when Las Vegas will be 100 years old. 19 tracks. EMI.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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