The Essential Frank Sinatra The Columbia Years

I specifically bought this CD for one song in particular, "Oh What It Seemed to Be".....a personal and heart-warming song that takes me back to the early days with my late wife. But the more I listen to this era in Sinatra's career, the more I begin to appreciate his smooth style of singing, which I adore.

This is a superb collection of songs from when Sinatra recorded for Columbia. Best of all, they are presented here in their original sound with none of the reverb and echo many engineers added to them later on. If you like Frank Sinatra this is for you. Frank and what he sounded like then.

I wanted an affordable collection of some of Sinatra's most popular songs from his nine years at Columbia (1943-1952) and this fit the bill.

Wow! This is a bargain CD of fantastic tranfers from 78s of early Sinatra. These recordings are marvelous.

excellent

it came before they said it would. it came in good condistion i am very happy with this company

Actually This is for a birthday gift for a friend of mine who loves his music. I am gathering as many CD's as I can find as well a photo's of Frank Sinatra to present to him.

Yet another Columbia compilation, albeit with sterling remastered sound. The twist here is that nearly all of these tracks are alternate versions instead of the familiar versions, all of which were substantial hits. There isn't a hair's breadth of difference, though, between the officially-released versions and these alternates, and in most cases the better version, however subtly so, was indeed the one chosen for contemporary release. This makes for a less-than-essential collection, despite the title and however great the performances and the material. For Sinatraphiles : 4 stars. For everyone else : 5 stars.

sent this cd to my son. he wanted a digitally remastered one. he said it is worst quality than the other one I sent that was remastered. Waste of money.

帝王シナトラのColumbia時代の録音を15曲収めたアルバム。だが、ただのベスト盤ではない。 15曲中、なんと8曲がこのＣＤで初リリースの未発表テイクなのだ。 関心のない人や知らない人にはただのベストものでしかないが、熱心なファンやマニアには 見過ごせないＣＤである。もちろん、虚心坦懐にシナトラの歌にのみ没頭するには申し分ない のではあるが。 余談だが、1993年に出た12枚組のＣＤＢＯＸ(全285曲)はそれなりに豪華だったが、このような 後から出た未発表テイクも含めて、新たな装丁でリリースしなおして欲しいところである。もう ずいぶん年月が経っていることもあるし…。