It was one of my first albums that I bought from Frank, not the very first, I was already on fire for Frank. Of course I had already compilations of it, even from the Capitol-time. and also a few concept albums. The Super-Saver from the Reprise era were simply unaffordable. Converted 30 German marks each, not enough for a student in the 70s. The first disappointment - not a gatefold cover, but a ballpark standard LP cover, well, that's on the CD in any case not an issue. The other disappointment, just 10 songs with a total of not only 34 minutes of music on it - a lot of money for precious little, considering that My Way with me back then ran up and down (and how - I'm a self-confessed fan of My Way ). Sticking to the cover - The picture looked kind of funny to me, unnecessarily blurred, but a great pose. In the original, where it is less trimmed, is still the cigarette with it, which is probably fell on the CD of the politically correctness victim. The Songs: 1.Watch What Happens - What a start with Drive, looseness, yet sovereignty, that is the great recapitulation-Frank as I liked him and still appreciate. A song that will stand as a single song never, ever, but as part simply takes Frank into the room. We 2.Didn't Quite different we continue - with feeling and with how much at that. Alone, the instrumentation of this song justifies purchasing the album, and then the final, as Frank Don Costa gets just awarded a grand finale - goosebumps 3.Hallalujah, I Love Her So A nice song, certainly with pep, but the topic might have been even a little more inside. Especially the voice sounds a little overcast, reminds us of the recording Euipment of "That's Life" 4.Yesterday Between Wow and boredom - here it depends on my day make the rest is in any case in the last week Topic 5.All My Tomorrows Back then, I was blown away - especially since it comes from one of my favorite Frank movies. And to this day I can not decide if my Capitol or the reprise version better like me. Perhaps the South Beach atmosphere comes here almost better than over in the original version, it goes better with great light around the pastel-colored Art Deco buildings On the LP one would turn around now, which increases the voltage :: 6.My Way What should I say - for me the Song of Songs; Goose Bumps! Who really loves the song needs even the live CD "Frank Sinatra: The Main Event" of 1974, the DVD with the TV special "Sinatra" from 1969 7.A Day In The Life Of A Fool After My Way, a song must first survive - and that includes this 5-star classic. This version is perhaps the most beautiful. How often at arranger Don Costa - a melt-in the beginning, then stop the increases. Since no kitsch is, that's just great - and the clarity with which Frank is in the room - even goosebumps. 8.For Once In My Life What a swinger, what kind of power - which is of course one of his later live cannons. Nevertheless, the studio version is great. 9.If You Go Away On any other album of J. Brel classics with Rod Mc Kuen text would become a classic own well. To this day I struggle which version I like better - in doubt, I have as a "Ne Me Quitte pass" out of the Olympics, as the final song - because then even Frank left behind. 10.Mrs. Robinson I think Frank liked the song and it has become a great swinger. Again, I was never quite sure which version I like better - let's say so, Dustin Hoffman helps Simon & Garfunkel to draw, well all I care, the theme song from The Graduate "helped the film version to a victory at the finish photo finish. Yes, I'm still after complete by listening completed 34 minutes of music to the absolute special class waiting to be heard and the same again and again again. What I do not quite understand: Some purists say that it was not a typical Concept Album. Frank, who was the master of this art, delivered here vielleich really more - the spirit of the times accordingly - rather just a collection of songs from. Today you can this type of criticism anyway no longer understand. Small Gag: Both theme song and album were only mediocre success in the USA at the beginning - An England it holds but still the charts record ...
