Label: Reprise Records (Germany), 7599-27037-2
Style: Jazz, Big Band, Swing
Country: New Jersey, U.S.
Time: 72:15
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 387 Mb
Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by
Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy
Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and
Casino in Las Vegas in 1966.
It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.
Sinatra and Basie had previously collaborated on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and 1964's It Might As Well Be Swing, with both albums released on Sinatra's Reprise label.
"The Tea Break" section of the album contains comic relief by Sinatra, during which he makes jokes about the drunkenness of Dean Martin and evening parties at his home in Beverly Hills, Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography Yes I Can and the hotel hiring him for "four solid weeks" as a cleaner, and jokes about himself being "so skinny my eyes were single file. Between those two and my belly button my old man thought I was a clarinet". He denounces the news that he'd recently turned fifty years of age as a "dirty Communist lie" "direct from Hanoi" and that he was really 28 and would have been 22 if Joe E. Lewis hadn't "wrecked" him from drinking. He concludes the segment with a summation of his early life and work lifting crates and serving as a rivet catcher from a cock-eyed guy who "couldn't hit a bull in a fanny with a bag of rice", and describing Edward Bowes as a "pompous bum with a bulbous nose" who "used to drink Green River".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra_at_the_Sands)
It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.
Sinatra and Basie had previously collaborated on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and 1964's It Might As Well Be Swing, with both albums released on Sinatra's Reprise label.
"The Tea Break" section of the album contains comic relief by Sinatra, during which he makes jokes about the drunkenness of Dean Martin and evening parties at his home in Beverly Hills, Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography Yes I Can and the hotel hiring him for "four solid weeks" as a cleaner, and jokes about himself being "so skinny my eyes were single file. Between those two and my belly button my old man thought I was a clarinet". He denounces the news that he'd recently turned fifty years of age as a "dirty Communist lie" "direct from Hanoi" and that he was really 28 and would have been 22 if Joe E. Lewis hadn't "wrecked" him from drinking. He concludes the segment with a summation of his early life and work lifting crates and serving as a rivet catcher from a cock-eyed guy who "couldn't hit a bull in a fanny with a bag of rice", and describing Edward Bowes as a "pompous bum with a bulbous nose" who "used to drink Green River".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra_at_the_Sands)
01. Come Fly With Me (03:47)
02. I've Got A Crush On You (02:43)
03. I've Got You Under My Skin (03:46)
04. The Shadow Of Your Smile (02:32)
05. Street Of Dreams (02:18)
06. One For My Baby (04:42)
07. Fly Me To The Moon (02:49)
08. One O'Clock Jump (00:57)
09. Frank Sinatra Monologue (11:50)
10. You Make Me Feel So Young (03:29)
11. All Of Me (02:56)
12. The September Of My Years (02:57)
13. Get Me To The Church On Time (02:25)
14. It Was a Very Good Year (03:57)
15. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (03:43)
16. Makin' Whoopee! (04:19)
17. Where Or When (02:47)
18. Angel Eyes (03:28)
19. My Kind Of Town (03:04)
20. Sinatra Closing Monologue (02:35)
21. My Kind of Town (Reprise) (00:59)
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