Ray Stevens - Sings Sinatra, Say What?
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Artist: Ray StevensEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-08-12
Music Label: Curb
Soundtracks:
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Night & Day
- I Get a Kick out of You
- All the Way
- High Hopes
- Witchcraft
- The Tender Trap
- Young at Heart
- Strangers in the Night
- That's Life
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Music Review: Stevens sings Sinatra...That's Right!!
Rating: 5 Stars
This 10 song collection of Sinatra songs are delivered in Ray's own unique way...as mentioned in other reviews, gone are the big band arrangements and in their place are smaller arrangements but by no means does it mean the songs are delivered unplugged as the phrase goes...Ray's musical roots lay in classic R&B of the 1950's...he was a teenager during that decade and in his own words he gravitated toward the R&B acts, both local and nationally known as his main influence musically but he also had fondness for comedy...and country music...so all of these interests were to show up on hundreds of Ray Stevens songs through the decades.
I personally like the way he covered these Sinatra classics...those longing to hear side-splitting comedy and country humor from Ray, look elsewhere...but for those like myself who like hearing the many sides of Ray Stevens, this collection will get 'under your skin', to partially quote the kick-off song on the collection, "I've Got You Under My Skin". That song is delivered straight-forward, wanting to state loud and clear that this CD is meant to be taken seriously...in spite of the arrangements not associated with these songs. This is where I feel Ray's creative genius unfolds...taking songs whose melodies and arrangements are well-defined over decades upon decades of exposure and re-arranging them with a different setting...the CD comes off like an intimate night at a club.
"I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Night And Day" are the second and third of the Cole Porter songs...the CD's lead-off, "I've Got You Under My Skin" was written by Cole Porter as well. In the second and third songs on the CD Ray continues the high energy but the tempo slows way down on track four, "All The Way", which incorporates an echo chamber as I call it when he's singing the title phrase.
Afterward the mood gets more light with "High Hopes".
Tracks 5 through 10 may be what casual fans would consider Sinatra's signature songs...they are: "High Hopes", "Witchcraft", "The Tender Trap", "Young at Heart", "Strangers in the Night", and "That's Life".
As mentioned earlier, there is no comedy on here...although some of the lines in "High Hopes" may strike some as being comical...I assume when Sinatra recorded it originally, the critics may have had issues with the lyrics...and some listeners today will giggle at the lyrics.
Anyway, this Sinatra CD had been in the talking/planning stages for several years before Ray's own label, Clyde, finally released the material last year. The CD was being sold at his concerts...it wasn't until a few months ago that the CD was released to the wider audience on Curb Records. The only song that isn't on here that a lot of people associate with Sinatra is "New York, New York" but how can you re-arrange that song???
I bet if Ray ever attempts to, he'd find a way...say what?? You read that right!
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