2010 reissue of his 1967 album recorded with Antonio Carlos Jobim. Universal.
Price: $17.98
Reprise released this double-album (now two-CD) set in 1965, in honor of Sinatra’s 50th birthday. As an attempt to sum up the singer’s career to date, A Man And His Music unfortunately falls short. Part of the problem is that Sinatra, as on the previous Sinatra’s Sinatra, re-recorded the material dating from his RCA, Columbia and Capitol periods; while the new versions of these songs are...
At the height of the big-band era, radio-network disputes with music-publishing clearing house ASCAP led to a scramble to find new sources of songs. After Tommy Dorsey’s band succeeded with “I’ll Never Smile Again,” a submission from the unknown Ruth Lowe, his program regularly featured an amateur-songwriting contest. It’s All So New!, drawn from broadcasts made between 1940...