Sinatra ’65 – FRANK SINATRA***

Tell Her(You Love Her Each Day)/Any Time At All/Stay With Me/I Like To Lead When I Dance/You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me/My Kind Of Town/When Somebody Loves You/Somewhere In Your Heart/I’ve Never Been In Love Again/When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love/Luck Be A Lady

Frank Sinatra trawled the vaults a little for this, by his standards, uneven collection of songs. Unusually Sinatra '65 appears never to have been released in the UK. (US:5)

"An uneven, pop-oriented record, Sinatra '65 is an odds-and-ends collection of various singles and sessions."

"Some might say the sublime on this album sits next to the subpar. But it's all Frank. Just hearing that voice, with any arrangement behind it, corny choirs and all, just to be taken back to 1965, back to Frank's world when it was only September."

"I am here to tell you that this is a big, bold and beautiful Sinatra album. Sinatra is at his zenith. The voice is in super top form on every selection in this album. The tracks have a fresh, new (in 1965) driving beat and chorus behind Sinatra and although some fans don't particularly care for the Ernie Freeman treatment, I love it."

"It showed that Sinatra could indeed swing with the times by putting his golden voice to a new sound, while remaining distinctively Sinatra." "Since it is a compilation album, it lacks the cohesiveness found on Sinatra's theme albums and does not compare with his earlier compilation albums, such as This Is Sinatra. Though there are some shortcomings, overall this is a good album."

"Any Sinatra release requires a good listen and this one is no exception. It consists of several single releases from 1964/65, featuring choirs and heavy backbeats, in an attempt to emulate Dean Martin's huge commercial successes for Sinatra's Reprise label. These are not as good and you can sense Frank tossing them off with the minimum of fuss and effort."

"Sinatra 65 is a compilation of various songs largely unreleased by Sinatra on studio albums in the 60s. Some people don't like these songs but a lot of them were actually very good. This gets a four star rating because of the diversity of material here. It hardly qualifies as a concept album like those that have a unifying theme."