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Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back

by: Frank Sinatra

Release Date June 08, 1998
"Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back" signaled Frank Sinatra's 1973 return from his high publicized retirement four years earlier. The result is a mixed bag, because while this is clearly Sinatra past his prime, there are still a couple of gems in "Send in the Clowns" and "There Used to Be a Ballpark." The problem is that those songs are included on enough Sinatra hits collections that if you already have those two songs there is little reason to pick up this CD. If it were a record album you could use the great cover shot of Sinatra as an object d'arte. Before he retired Sinatra was doing some interest work (e.g., the concept album "Watertown"), but producer Don Costa has come up with a collection of largely forgettable songs by new songwriters. Joe Raposo ... Read More: