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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good but the sound is not as great as touted Oct 11, 2009
I won't comment on the mixes per se since many before me have weighed in with their pros and cons. What I can say is that while the new CD remixes are very clean, they all seem to have a tilted up treble that imparts a somewhat nasal quality to ol blue eyes. Granted I have a very high resolution system,but this tilt seems prevalent on almost all the tracks on this CD. As to the performances, I much prefer Sinatra's live albums because he seems to sing the songs with much more emotion, rather than just performing flawlessly like he does here. In "The Girl from Ipanema" he is singing the song, not singing to the girl, like it was intended. Still a good compilation album but not 5 stars.
 Great CD Aug 28, 2009
I love this CD. Frank is the 2nd best performer, Dean Martin being number 1 and this is a great CD to own. I highly recommend it.
 Alternate takes and good remastering with unissued Body and Soul! May 17, 2009
I bought this to hear the new arrangement of Body and Soul. I have the original Quincy Jones orchestration on a privately circulated limited edition cd. After hearing it, albeit in awful sound quality, one can totally understand why Frank didn't release it. Quincy cooked up an AWFUL chart that goes against Frank's tender reading of the song. The loud big band without strings just didn't allow for the tenderness of the song to come through. So they removed the band and isolated Frank's vocal and had Torrie Zito make a new arrangement. What has happened is nothing short of miraculous. Which goes to show how important it is to have a great arranger in order to make the song work. To my surprise, Come Fly With Me ends with a different tag from the previous issues. The Best is Yet to Come is also differnt, in the bridge, Frank phrases "Come the day your mine" differently. It's not as good as the previously issued version although the difference is slight, it's noticeable. And for hard core Sinatra collectors like me, it's essential. Strangers In The Night fades later than on previous issues. Two alternate takes, one track with a longer ending and an unissued Body and Soul make this a must buy for Sinatra collectors. Now the remastered sound. Overall it's excellent except for a few tunes. Drinking Again is MUCH better than the original issue. You can hear marimbas on this remaster. The older remastering you didn't even know marimbas were used! And you'll notice that the channels are reversed in the previous issues. One must assume that this is the correct set up. That scratchy part of the tape on Strangers In The Night at about 1:04, is FINALLY removed. For some reason, all previous issues had this flaw. My Way sounds much better than any of the previous incarnations. The only track that is "over remastered" is The Girl From Ipanema. For some reason, this remaster is overly dry, and colder sounding. The 1998 20 bit reissue is much better. But on the whole, it's a nice compilation and is a good one to recommend to people who are just getting into Frank.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Misleading to the casual fan May 11, 2009
This is far from Sinatra's best.
It needs to be retitled "The Best of the Reprise Years"
All of these recordings are from his days at Reprise, the company he started after he left Capital in the early 60s.
"Come Fly with Me" has it's original version by Frank on the Capital album by the same name and is much better than this rehash Frank did for Reprise.
Also, many of Frank's best stuff, even if he had redone old Columbia songs due to his more mature vocal are with Capital.
"All the Way", "Young at Heart", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "I get a Kick out of You", "The Tender Trap", "Hey Jealous Lover", "Learnin the Blues", "Chicago", "One For My Baby", "Angel Eyes", "All of Me", "Same Old Saturday Night", "Come Dance With Me", "In the Wee Small Hours", "You Make me Feel so Young", "Autumn in New York", "I've Got the World on A string", "Love and Marriage", "Witchcraft", "Nice and Easy", "South of the Border", "High Hopes", ect.
As you can see the bulk of his most popular recordings are not on Reprise although a few key signature songs are such as the classic Reprise songs, "Strangers in the Night","The Summer Wind", "It Was a Very Good Year", Theme from "New York, New York", "My Kind of Town", "Fly me to the Moon", "The Best is Yet to Come".
If you really want to get the Best of Frank, splurge a little and by two pretty affordable box sets.
Both were released in 1990.
The Capital Years and the Reprise Collection.
You will be set.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Sound Without ....... Passion Apr 25, 2009
Seeing that it is REMASTERED, I have very high expectation of its sound but SAD to say, it misses that mark by a wide margin. Everything is louder, more detailed but there is no soul, the very element of music.
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