Sinatra & Company

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Sinatra & Company
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Studio album by
Released1971
RecordedFebruary 11, 1969 –
October 29, 1970
Hollywood
Genre Traditional pop, bossa nova, [1] soft rock
Length40:03
Label Reprise
FS 1033
Producer Don Costa (tracks: B1 to B7), Sonny Burke (tracks: A1 to A7)
Frank Sinatra chronology
Watertown
(1970)
Sinatra & Company
(1971)
Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1972)
SinatraJobim
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The original artwork
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Sinatra & Company is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra released in 1971.

Contents

The first side of this album is in the bossa nova style, and the second side is influenced by soft rock, featuring two songs from John Denver.

The bossa nova recordings were originally cut for a follow-up to the widely acclaimed Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim . Arranged by Eumir Deodato, the recordings had been completed, the artwork finalized, and an 8-track tape release of the planned album, titled Sinatra–Jobim, briefly made available when the decision was made to retrench. Some of Sinatra's less mainstream albums hadn't performed well, and anxieties drove the creation of this hybrid.

Three songs recorded at the Sinatra-Jobim session "Bonita", "Sabiá", and "Off Key (Desafinado)" were omitted from Sinatra & Company. "Sabiá" was released in the US as the flip side of the 45 rpm single "Lady Day" (Reprise 0970) in 1970, and was included on the 1970 Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders sampler Schlagers!, as well as being issued along with "Bonita" on the 1977 compilation Portrait of Sinatra and the 1979 compilation, Sinatra–Jobim Sessions . "Off Key (Desafinado)" was unreleased until its inclusion on the box set The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings in 1995. In 2010 the Concord Records label issued Sinatra–Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings, a comprehensive collection of all the tracks recorded by Sinatra and Jobim.

A few 8 track versions of Sinatra–Jobim did survive, and are now eagerly sought after by collectors. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Drinking Water" (Vinicius de Moraes, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 2:35
  2. "Someone to Light Up My Life" (de Moraes, Jobim, Gene Lees) – 2:37
  3. "Triste" (Jobim) – 2:40
  4. "Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa de Você) (Ray Gilbert, Dolores Durán, Jobim) – 2:28
  5. "This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca) (de Moraes, Jobim, Lees) – 2:57
  6. "Wave" (Jobim) – 3:25
  7. "One Note Samba (Samba de uma Nota Só)" (Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Jon Hendricks) – 2:20
  8. "I Will Drink the Wine" (Paul Ryan) – 3:30
  9. "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:34
  10. "Sunrise in the Morning" (Ryan) – 2:50
  11. "Bein' Green" (Joe Raposo) – 3:00
  12. "My Sweet Lady" (John Denver) – 3:01
  13. "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (John Denver) – 2:25
  14. "Lady Day" (Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes) – 3:41

Charts

Chart (1971)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] 23

Personnel

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References

  1. Sinatra & Company on AllMusic "Taken on its own terms, the second half of Sinatra & Company ranks as some of his best soft rock-influenced material of the late '60s, even if it doesn't sit comfortably with the excellent bossa nova that comprises the first side of the record."
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Andrew Male Mojo, January 2010, Issue 194.
  4. "Frank Sinatra with Antonio Carlos Jobim".
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 275,276. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.