Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0010963810424 Format: Gold CD, Soundtrack Label: Artanis Records Manufacturer: Artanis Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Artanis Records Release Date: October 24, 2000 Sales Rank: 26229 Studio: Artanis Records
Amazon.com: By 1964, with the Beatles' fame exploding all around them, the heyday of Frank Sinatra's fabled Rat Pack was just about over. But if they were daunted by middle age, the rapid encroachment of rock & roll, or simply the volatile presence of each other, there's no trace of it in their rollicking musical spoof of Robin Hood, the Warner Bros. gangster flicks of the 30's and 40's, and--crucially--themselves. Perhaps inspired by their irreverent, recently recorded Broadway romps for Sinatra's Reprise label (Guys and Dolls, Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me, Kate, and South Pacific), the Pack (including, as it did on Guys and Dolls, guest Rat Bing Crosby) took the freewheeling nature of those records to the big screen and to this original score for the motion picture. The seven musical 'hoods' here are Sinatra, Crosby, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, and composer/conductor Nelson Riddle. All showcase their resumés well, from Sinatra's rendition of the familiar 'My Kind of Town' (also included as a bonus track is a previously unreleased alternate version) to Davis's show-stopping ode to cold-blooded murder, 'Bang! Bang!' And lest anyone take the proceedings too seriously, they hand off 'All for One and One for All' to that somewhat less than noted crooner Peter Falk and let Crosby preach the Gospel of 'Don't Be a Do-Badder' and 'Mr. Booze' as--wait for it--a temperance lecturer! With the original album long out of print and here making its debut on CD, this edition restores the Rat Pack's lively film swan song to its full sonic glory. --Jerry McCulley
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Rating: - little disappointment
it says it's the original soundtrack but it's not. if you're a big fan of this movie you notice the cuts on this album are rerecorded in a studio. they're not the song cuts that are from the soundtrack. had i known this i might not have bought this album. the sampler from amazon doesn't give enough from the songs so that you realize this.
Rating: - Eh, It's alright.
On the audio commentary on the DVD of this motion picture, Frank Sinatra Jr. (Does anyone know why he doesn't call Sinatra Sr. "Dad" instead of "Sinatra?") said that his dad wanted to re-record the entire score in stereophonic sound. So, hence, two different versions of every musical number. I already have this version of "My Kind of Town" on the "Reprise Collection" cd. So why should I even buy the cd when they're not the songs I've seen on the movie? The film (monophonic) version of "My Kind of Town" is completely different than the studio version, such as beginning and ending in a higher key, Mr. Sinatra sounds more relaxed and in better voice than in the studio version, and lastly the orchestra on the film version sounds more "live" and spontaneous. I can't find the other version of the soundtrack anywhere. Perhaps Warner Reprise Records will release a special edition with both versions in a few years. Personally, ... Read More
Rating: - Robin and the 7 hoods
I thought the CD was thrown together. Out of 16 tracks
(two were labeled BONUS TRACK), four songs were repeats of two songs,
and three of the 16 tracks were calle Studio chatter, which was the stars
mumbing nothing of interest. Nine out of 16 and there were only three decent
ones of the nine. I'd like to believe Frank Sinatra was embarrassed to be a
part of it.
Rating: - this is my kind of cd
this is the only cd available of this movie soundtrack of what has become sort of a cult-following flick (up there with ocean's eleven among sinatra's best films), so if you want it, you will have to shell out twice the going rate, to get the overpriced, hokey gold cd, but it is worth it to get this music (and the gold cd sure is shiny...)
the sound quality on this digitally remastered cd is really as good as advertised, but perhaps, to rationalize for overpaying for this cd, i imagined hearing nuances and tones that were no different than on a normal cd. nelson riddle's orchestrations are the usual great, swinging 60's sound, and everyone's voices are in top form.
the cd liner notes interestingly point out that sinatra was distracted twice during the final wrap up of the movie, in fall of 1963, once when president kennedy was assassinated and then when sinatra's son was kidnapped, and shooting was ... Read More
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