Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits! (Vinyl record album review)

Record basics

• Album name: Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits!
• Artist name: Frank Sinatra
• Year: 1968
• Number of discs: one
• Label: Reprise Records
• Collection: Selman
• Buy it on Amazon: $94.95

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I listened to The Best Of Frank Sinatra a few months ago and didn’t really like it; that’s the only time in my life that I ever intentionally listened to his music.

What I expected

Same as before, I guess: smooth, jazzy vocals for my grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ generations. But maybe I’ll find some songs on this one that I enjoy?

What it was actually like

I actually recognized a couple of songs on this Frank Sinatra compilation, starting with Strangers in the Night, which wasn’t terrible.

It Was a Very Good Year was another song that I knew, because it’s indelibly seared into my memory from the opening montage of the fist episode of the second season of The Sopranos, which is available to watch on Youtube^[1].

This Town was all right, but the background vocals on Softly, as I Leave You were horrible and sounded like a choir or something. Forget Domani was probably the worst song and sounded extremely gimmicky.

Grade

3/5: interesting, but not for me