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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724349475625
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Item Dimensions: 21
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
MPN: 94756
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: May 26, 1998
Studio: Capitol
Disc 1:- Only the Lonely
- Angel Eyes
- What's New?
- It's a Lonesome Old Town
- Willow Weep for Me
- Goodbye
- Blues in the Night
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- Ebb Tide
- Spring Is Here
- Gone With the Wind
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
- Sleep Warm [*]
- Where or When [*]
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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
Average Rating: 
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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 ... Read More
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I did not know that Frank Sinitra's record.
Even if I know perfectly the Sinatra's repertoire, I am, for ever, captivated by his charm and his personality
An unforgettable record...
Buy it without hesitating
It's Sinatra at his best.
Pierre BESSON from PARIS (France)
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I absolutely loved this album, I recently picked it up because I'm looking to broaden my interest in music. And, yeah, I'm so happy I listened to it. First off I'm a teenager, so don't think I grew up with Sinatra. His sad baritone is a testament to not only American music as a whole, but also the feeling of loneliness that has surrounded us at one time or another. "Angel Eyes" is my absolute favorite song on the album, but that doesn't mean that I don't like the other songs whatsoever. The haunting ... Read More
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Make sure you aren't going to slide into sadness if these songs remind you of love lost or mistakes in love, or if you do go there that you can come out of it quickly! As far as the art of it goes, five stars.
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