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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724349475625
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Item Dimensions: 21
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: May 26, 1998
Studio: Capitol
Disc 1:- Only the Lonely - Frank Sinatra, Cahn, Sammy
- Angel Eyes - Frank Sinatra, Brent, Earl
- What's New? - Frank Sinatra, Burke, Johnny [Lyri
- It's a Lonesome Old Town - Frank Sinatra, Kisco, C.
- Willow Weep for Me - Frank Sinatra, Ronell, Ann
- Goodbye - Frank Sinatra, Jenkins, Gordon [1]
- Blues in the Night - Frank Sinatra, Arlen, Harold
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry - Frank Sinatra, Cahn, Sammy
- Ebb Tide - Frank Sinatra, Maxwell, Robert
- Spring Is Here - Frank Sinatra, Hart, Lorenz
- Gone With the Wind - Frank Sinatra, Magidson, Herbert
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - Frank Sinatra, Arlen, Harold
- Sleep Warm [*] - Frank Sinatra, Bergman, Alan
- Where or When [*] - Frank Sinatra, Hart, Lorenz
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
Look past the tacky, sad-clown velvet painting on the cover (a Grammy-winner for album design in 1959!), there's nothing cheap or sentimental about this record--the bleakest and blackest album of popular songs ever recorded, so quietly powerful it can leave you slumped in your chair with the ice cubes still rattling in your glass. Every single "suicide song" (as Sinatra liked to call 'em) on Only the Lonely is a stunner that will take your breath away. Nelson Riddle's arrangements are like shadows, almost colorless and motionless, so that all you hear is the ache in the singer's voice. "Angel Eyes" and "One for My Baby" each deserve an album to themselves-- so exquisitely moving that at the end of three minutes you feel like you've just heard a lifetime of loneliness. My only regret--and it's a big one--is that this flawless masterpiece doesn't include Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," which truly belongs here; Sinatra put it into an already overcrowded recording schedule and, when fatigue and the difficulty of the song defeated him after a couple takes, he gave up and never attempted it again. We got the chillingly lovely "Willow Weep For Me" instead, so I'm really not complaining--but that just adds to the pang of loss that this album expresses so vividly. Drink up! --Jim Emerson
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Another review notes that this is Frank's son's favorite album (he is not really "Frank, Jr.," by the way)-- I would have to agree. According to John Rockwell's book, Sinatra: An American Classic, when asked at a party in the mid-1970s if he had a favorite album among his recordings, Sinatra unhesitatingly chose this one. The album would be worth the price just for "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)."
I began to appreciate Frank as I started to college-- and then it quickly ... Read More
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A true masterpiece, "The Suicide Album". Sinatra and Riddle...great singing, great arrangements, and SAD songs. Unfortunately, the idiots at Capitol decided to mess with perfection. The original LP ended perfectly, with the classic One For My Baby, but the morons at Capitol needlessly added two songs, Sleep Warm and Where or When, and it makes absolutely no sense. Nothing wrong with either of these songs, except they have no business being added to this already perfect album. And these fools get ... Read More
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This was one of his best-selling albums. He won an award for designing the cover art. Did you know that? GREAT album too - many songs on here I don't have anywhere else. Classic Sinatra at his very best!!!
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It's all there in Sinatra's voice: The isolation. The loneliness. The desperation. The ultimate futility. The human predicament in a minor key.
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Prior to listening to this album I had heard a few of the other songs on compilations and youtube and because I adored them I decided I needed to own Only the Lonely.
I listened to it early evening yesterday for the first time, sitting alone on my couch. My drapes were pulled open but I had the lights off so that there was a gloomy and pale winter light in my livingroom which darkened more with each song.
One by one, listened to together uninterrupted in sequence, Frank takes ... Read More
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