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Accompanying the 2013 Deluxe Edition reissue of Frank Sinatra's Duets is The Best of Duets, a 14-track compilation that rounds up highlights from that 1993 album and its 1994 sequel, adding his duet with Luciano Pavarotti on "My Way," a cut previously unreleased in the U.S. (but available on various international editions of the first Duets). As these two albums are cut from the same cloth -- they were assembled from the same long-distance sessions helmed by Phil Ramone -- they compile nicely, and this collection also benefits by emphasizing vocalists familiar with the Great American Songbook over pop/rock novelties. To be sure, such attention-grabbers as Bono and Chrissie Hynde are here (the latter providing one of the liveliest cuts), but this focuses on Barbra Streisand, Luther Vandross, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, and Frank Sinatra, Jr, which does mean this music doesn't seem quite as desperate to please all demographics as it did on the original album. Nothing changes how the Duets project remains a not-entirely essential coda to Sinatra's career, but anybody wanting to sample this swan song would do as well listening to this compilation as they would listening to the actual albums.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Phil Ramone, Producer - Kiko Cibrián, Producer - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Billy May, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Luis Miguel, MainArtist - José Quintana, Producer - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Aretha Franklin, MainArtist - Gilbert Becaud, ComposerLyricist - PIERRE DELANOE, ComposerLyricist - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Sigman, ComposerLyricist - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - DON COSTA, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Gloria Estefan, MainArtist - Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - DON COSTA, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Jay Landers, Producer, Executive Producer - DAVID FOSTER, Producer - George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Doug Sax, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - NELSON RIDDLE, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Conductor, Musical Director, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Barbra Streisand, MainArtist
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Luther Vandross, MainArtist - Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Byers, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Linda Ronstadt, MainArtist - Ed Rak, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Conductor, Musical Director - Al Schmitt, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Karl Suessdorf, ComposerLyricist - John Blackburn, ComposerLyricist - Charles Koppelman, Producer, Executive Producer - Don Rubin, Producer, Executive Producer - Charlie Pollard, Participant - Sean Chambers, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eliot Weisman, Producer, Executive Producer - Dennis Cordero, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Ed Rak, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Conductor, Musical Director - Al Schmitt, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Charles Koppelman, Producer, Executive Producer - Don Rubin, Producer, Executive Producer - Frank Sinatra Junior, MainArtist - Charlie Pollard, Participant - Sean Chambers, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eliot Weisman, Producer, Executive Producer - Dennis Cordero, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ed Rak, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Conductor, Musical Director - Lena Horne, MainArtist - Al Schmitt, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Schilling, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Gregory Stone, Translator - Charles Koppelman, Producer, Executive Producer - Don Rubin, Producer, Executive Producer - Charlie Pollard, Participant - Sean Chambers, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eliot Weisman, Producer, Executive Producer - Dennis Cordero, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Chrissie Hynde, MainArtist - Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - FRANK LOESSER, ComposerLyricist - Eric Schilling, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Arturo Sandoval, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - NELSON RIDDLE, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bono, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Adam Clayton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Edge, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Mullen, Jr., Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Island Records Limited
Phil Ramone, Producer - Johnny Mercer, Author - Harold Arlen, Composer - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - NELSON RIDDLE, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - PATRICK WILLIAMS, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kenny G, MainArtist - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Al Schmitt, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - John Kander, ComposerLyricist - Fred Ebb, ComposerLyricist - DON COSTA, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - CARL GLANVILLE, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Bennett, MainArtist - Hank Cattaneo, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1993 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Ramone, Producer - Paul Anka, ComposerLyricist - Luciano Pavarotti, MainArtist - Claude François, ComposerLyricist - Jacques Revaux, ComposerLyricist - Frank Sinatra, MainArtist - DON COSTA, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - GILLES THIBAULT, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1995 Capitol Records, LLC
Albumbeschreibung
Accompanying the 2013 Deluxe Edition reissue of Frank Sinatra's Duets is The Best of Duets, a 14-track compilation that rounds up highlights from that 1993 album and its 1994 sequel, adding his duet with Luciano Pavarotti on "My Way," a cut previously unreleased in the U.S. (but available on various international editions of the first Duets). As these two albums are cut from the same cloth -- they were assembled from the same long-distance sessions helmed by Phil Ramone -- they compile nicely, and this collection also benefits by emphasizing vocalists familiar with the Great American Songbook over pop/rock novelties. To be sure, such attention-grabbers as Bono and Chrissie Hynde are here (the latter providing one of the liveliest cuts), but this focuses on Barbra Streisand, Luther Vandross, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, and Frank Sinatra, Jr, which does mean this music doesn't seem quite as desperate to please all demographics as it did on the original album. Nothing changes how the Duets project remains a not-entirely essential coda to Sinatra's career, but anybody wanting to sample this swan song would do as well listening to this compilation as they would listening to the actual albums.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:52:48
- Main artists: Frank Sinatra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: FRANK SINATRA HYBRID
- Genre: Electronic Lounge
© 2013 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2013 Capitol Records, LLC
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