Frank Sinatra - That's Life
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Artist: Frank SinatraEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-05-17
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
- That's Life
- I Will Wait for You
- Somewhere My Love (Laura's Theme) [From Doctor Zhivago]
- Sand and Sea
- What Now, My Love?
- Winchester Cathedral
- Give Her Love
- Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)
- Impossible Dream
- You're Gonna Hear from Me
Free Music Notes for That's Life
Free Music Review: Frank's Weakest Efforrt As A Recording Artist.
Hit: 3 Stars
This 1967 effort is widely considered by many Frank fans to be one of his worst effort, if not his worst, and to an extent it's not hard to see why. It's blatantly obvious on this record that Frank is trying to keep up with the times, and the result is a very mixed affair.
The problems are many. It's his first album of completely contemporary material, and not much of it is suited for Frank. It doesn't help that Ernie Freeman is the worst arranger Frank ever associated with. His arrangements are bland and inspired and don't fit Frank's style at all. To make matters worse, Frank puts no soul into the tracks like he so often did on previous records. He's definitely phoning it in here, and he makes no connection whatsoever with most of the material, with the exception of the title track, as top-notch a Sinatra recording as any other. There are about two other salvagable numbes on this collection, a swing version of the "Dr. Zhivago" love theme "Somewhere, My Love" and the previously released "Tell Her (You Love He Each Day)."
The rest of the album is a hodge podge of missed opportunities and entirely unsalvagable numbers Frank that should've never recorded. In the former category, there's "What Now My Love," a wonderful ballad that disappoints to great extremes here thanks to Freeman's overdependanc on organ and go-go girl choruses. To prove how disconnected Frank sounds throughout most of the material, he actually sounds happy when he sings it. Listen to any of the live performances of the songs Frank did in the 1980s' and 1990s', and the difference is clear. On the later version, Frank really bares his soul and nails the emotional depth of the song, one of the most powerful ballads ever written. On this studio version, he may well as be singing "My Kind Of Town" or even the title track. He sings it in "Ring-A-Ding Ding" style rather than "Only The Lonely," which is how it should be done.
Similarly, Frank could've made "The Impossible Dream" his own, but the arrangement is far too understated to score any real emotional drama or grandness. Had Nelson Riddle been on the hand to give the song a towering, "Concert Sinatra" type arrangement, the results would've been significantly different.
The remaining tracks are the most abysmal set of the songs ever to grace a Sinatra album. "Sand And Sea," "I Will Wait For You," "Give Her Love," (which would've worked in Dean Martin's hand) and the corny "Don't Rain On My Parade" rip-off "You're Gonna Hear From Me" are the blandest, most uninspired and thus interesting tracks in Frank's catalogue, and the cover of "Winchester Cathedral" is dull and embarassing.
I only give this album three stars becaue of the five star title track and the fact that it's Frank. Other than it's, a pretty dark effort, and by far my least favorite Sinatra record.
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