Voice in Time 1939-1952 (W/Book) (Dlx)

Frank Sinatra - Voice in Time 1939-1952 (W/Book) (Dlx)

Voice in Time 1939-1952 (W/Book) (Dlx)
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Artist: Frank Sinatra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. All Or Nothing At All
  2. From the Bottom Of My Heart
  3. If I Didn't Care
  4. Moon Love
  5. East Of the Sun (And West Of the Moon)
  6. I'll Be Seeing You
  7. Say It
  8. Blue Skies
  9. I'll Never Smile Again
  10. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
  11. This Love Of Mine
  12. Oh, Look At Me Now!
  13. Just As Though You Were Here
  14. How About You?
  15. Imagination
  16. Frenesi
  17. Blue Moon
  18. Be Careful It's My Heart
  19. Night And Day
  20. The Song Is You
Music CD 2
  1. No Love, No Nothin'
  2. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night In the Week)
  3. Oh! What It Seemed To Be
  4. You'll Never Know
  5. I've Got a Crush On You
  6. The Brooklyn Bridge
  7. Five Minutes More
  8. (It Seems To Me) I've Heard That Song Before
  9. The Trolley Song
  10. Time After Time
  11. Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
  12. I Fall In Love Too Easily
  13. (I Got a Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way
  14. It's Been a Long, Long Time
  15. Dancing In the Dark
  16. Medley: I've Got You Under My Skin/Easy To Love
  17. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
  18. Lover Come Back To Me
  19. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
  20. Again
Music CD 3
  1. All Of Me
  2. Sweet Lorraine
  3. Body And Soul
  4. All the Things You Are
  5. Embraceable You
  6. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
  7. Stormy Weather
  8. Begin the Beguine
  9. There Will Never Be Another You
  10. As Time Goes By
  11. The Nearness Of You
  12. Stella By Starlight
  13. I Get a Kick Out Of You
  14. That Old Black Magic
  15. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
  16. It Had To Be You
  17. What'll I Do?
  18. Laura
  19. September Song
  20. Ol' Man River
Music CD 4
  1. The Birth Of the Blues
  2. April In Paris
  3. American Beauty Rose
  4. Lover
  5. The Continental
  6. Should I (Reveal)
  7. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
  8. It All Depends On You
  9. Bye Bye Baby
  10. I Could Write a Book
  11. Autumn In New York
  12. If Only She'd Looked My Way
  13. Hello, Young Lovers
  14. We Kiss In a Shadow
  15. My Girl
  16. Love Me
  17. Farewell, Farewell To Love
  18. Walking In the Sunshine
  19. Why Try To Change Me Now
  20. I'm a Fool To Want You

Free Music Notes for Voice in Time 1939-1952 (W/Book) (Dlx)

Free Music Review: If this doesn't win some awards...
Hit: 5 Stars

...then I don't know what will. So let me be the first to declare - "A Voice in Time" should win on several accounts.

First, the packaging...it's exquisite. Among the very, very best I've ever seen - and never have I seen it in this price range. A+++. The dark and silver pin striping is very classy and beautiful...wonderfully understated and it sets a tone of elegance and class. Inside the two books are beautiful - one housing the four disks the other the reading material...perfect. Functional. Again...very, very classy, and very, very well made. No dated, plastic jewel cases or digipaks that fall apart - no, none of that, it's just delicious. Both are extremely hefty, and well-made, and knock-out, flat-out gorgeous. The silver and black motif is luxuriously carried through to these two pieces...very befitting of the old B&W feel of the music - very stylish and hints of the old deco design styles of the 1920s/30s/40s, but not "ultra-retro-y"...not at all. Just class. The printing and production of these books is well beyond the price range, filled with beautifully done photographs, high quality paper and prints...and wonderful materials to look at and read and enjoy. Amazing...and absolutely Grammy worthy.

Second, the music....or I should say "program." I have to tell you, I have some early Sinatra and I love it, but I really wasn't interested in a four CD retrospective. Maybe a "Complete...yada, whatever" (after all aren't we all collectors now?) So I didn't think a set like this would be of any great interest to me or to "collectors." Sure...there's something to be said for owning EVERYTHING - alternates and all - but forget about everything. There's still something to be said for a story...a set designed to be a wonderful consistent listen. It's still about enjoying music, right?

A stunning and brilliant and magical program of listening is what this is. Wonderfully laid out and presented. Perfectly chosen material that frames the music, the time, and the voice. It is refreshingly not limited to the "Complete, something-something sessions" or the recordings made with the "something orchestra." That fact allowed them to create nothing less than a perfect album, a perfect program of music - just the way Sinatra liked to do it. That's what blew me away (after the packaging of course) - this is such a remarkably well thought out set. It covers the best music that introduced the world to the Voice - and it's free to explore how and why it all happened. And that's the impact you feel. It ultimately creates a giant, amazing concept album, where the concept is how early Frank Sinatra landed on Earth and reinvented singing and threw pop music into high art. It presents the most authentic and POWERFUL portrayal of early Sinatra I've ever heard.

Yes...the material is all aces, too. There's nothing to mull through. It's a knock-out, free-flowing mega-album. Somehow it manages to create a very living and deeply moving personal message, like all of Sinatra's best concept albums. As if he knew one day these recordings would be assembled here, at this time, and in this fashion...it does make you wonder. It deserves whatever awards they got.

Third, the sound...it is nothing short of miraculous. The restoration is absolutely stunning. You will be speechless listening to it, I promise. It's not just icing on the cake either -- it goes much deeper than that. It manages to cohesively revive everything, by putting a brilliant, magical light on it all. You feel it, you damn-near see it. Every detail shimmers. You are movingly reminded that he was the greatest singer of all time who happened to be in possession of the greatest vocal instrument of all time. A living Stradivarius. The sound quality really lets you hear and appreciate that. How he holds and fades a perfect, velvety note into the sky is right there to fully appreciate - there's no mistaking his brilliance. Honestly, these pieces just don't "sound good" they sound utterly amazing.

Well, lastly there's the subject matter. You get the sense that it really gets its due here. What better subject matter could you have? The greatest singer of all time, captured as he was changing the world, just as it all happened. Given the brilliant programming of the material and its sonic restoration - it's happening all over again.

Not just another box set covering the familiar. Nor is it a "complete-anything" to feed our "I want it all" appetite. This set is a revelation to be cherished - on all accounts; sound quality, subject matter, programming, and packaging. And I believe it is very capable of winning awards on all those accounts mentioned. It's that good. And together, the sum of all those accounts, adds up to be one of the best sets I've ever owned. Fittingly it was released to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his passing. Fitting indeed...it's a very special program.
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