You Will Be My Music/You're So Right (For What's Wrong In My Life)/Winners/Nobody Wins/Send In The Clowns/Dream Away/Let Me Try Again/There Used To Be A Ballpark/Noah
Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to release Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back, his final chart album of original material. By this time his style of music was regarded as seriously unfashionable. (US:13 UK:12)
“This is a great Sinatra album. Do not pay attention to critics who describe it as a mixed bag or denigrate Sinatra's vocals. No, this is not the prime Sinatra of the Capitol years and, yes, his voice is a little rough around the edges, but so what? An aging Sinatra was still light years ahead of any other singer.”
“Frank was no spring chicken when he recorded this but it contains some beautiful work. In my view, whenever Gordon Jenkins, Don Costa and Frank Sinatra got together, it made for great music. I think the orchestration on this release is stellar, the best of all of Frank's albums. There is not a bad track and it is well worth the money at twice the price. I have heard some say that this album showed Frank's voice was getting a bit thin by this time but Winners and You Will Be My Music still give me goose bumps every time I listen to them.”
“Frank Sinatra makes his first album since he announced his retirement. And what a comeback album it is. We first notice that Sinatra`s voice has aged but it has aged like a fine wine, never better.”
“This LP may pale in comparison to Frank's previous work but there is still much to be heard. Fresh from retirement his voice is a bit rusty but still sounding beautiful. There are three cuts that deserve attention. One is Anka's second anthem Let Me Try Again which was actually an Italian melody for which he supplied lyrics. The second special cut is his classic rendition of Send In The Clowns. The third and my favourite cut is the haunting There Used To Be A Ballpark. It goes beyond being a beautiful recording and enters the realm of social commentary addressing subject matter rarely found in a popular song.”
“Everyone loves a comeback, and this album represented Sinatra's return to the studio after a brief first 'retirement'. There are some nice performances here, but some of this album is awful, the Kris Kristofferson number notably. Noah is also just wrong for Sinatra, suffering from the same overproduction as much early 1970s music. Dream Away is just hokey.”
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