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- Date Released: October 10, 1955
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: Columbia/Legacy
- Copyright: Originally Released 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1959, 1966 SONY BMG MUSIC ENERTAINMENT
The original pop "concept" album from an American music legend
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We Say...
A landmark in American music, The Voice, recorded and released in 1945, is generally regarded as the original pop "concept" album: this was the first time a singer and arranger (the brilliant Axel Stordahl) assembled a program of songs in a distinct mood and tempo, so that one song would flow into another in a consistent program (even though it was initially released as a collection of single-track 78RPM discs). Making the set even more remarkable, Sinatra built this pioneering effort of eight classic songs — an innovation in itself at a time when singers recorded contemporary hits almost exclusively. Sinatra and Stordahl juxtaposed a jazz rhythm section and soloists with a classical string quartet for a chamber-style backing that set off Sinatra's vocals like pearls on velvet. Sinatra's breathlessly intimate vocalizing on "I Don't Know Why" and "The Nearness of You," still retains its amazing tenderness after 60 years. This expanded CD edition contains all of Sinatra and Stordahl's chamber sessions of the period (the precursor to the classic album Close To You) and illustrates how, even at this early stage of the game, Sinatra can make you feel every nuance of every word of every lyric.
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They Say...
Most of the Sinatra recordings available during the 1950's consisted of his contemporary work for Capitol Records. But every so often his former label, Columbia Records, would get something together on LP from among his forties and early 1950's sides. The Voice was one of a handful of 1950's long-players showcasing the first phase of Sinatra's solo career, and at the time it wowed listeners -- the focus is on the ballads, and the dozen represented here constitute a bumper-crop of classics, all resplendant in the singer's richest, most overpowering intonation and most delicately nuanced work. The sensibilities, from the lushly seductive "Laura" to the gently self-satisfied "(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way", show off a huge emotional range, and the latter song may be the highlight of the album, displaying a soft yet smugly confident brand of machismo, all of it drenched in Axel Stordahl's overflowing string arrangements, yet quietly bold in its emotional content. It's that stretch of subtexts that, coupled with the beauty of Sinatra's instrument and Stordahl's arrangements, make the singer's Columbia material so striking to hear -- his subsequent work on Capitol and Reprise would be defined differently, and usually more directly, along with the texture and range of his singing. The Columbia material tended to get neglected, both in the marketplace and most listeners' minds, as his career extended across the decades, but hearing The Voice anew is a reminder of just how overpowering Sinatra's sound could be, even in the early phase of his solo work. This album -- which was actually a re-editing (and something of a corruption) of his 78 r.p.m. album The Voice of Frank Sinatra -- was a huge seller at the time of its release in 1955, and it's a sign of just how large it loomed in Columbia's history that it was was among the earliest releases selected for inclusion in Sony Music's audiophile-oriented Mastersound CD series of the early 1990's, deluxe packaging, gold CD and all.
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| 01. |  |
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) |
2:43 |
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| 02. | |
Try A little Tenderness |
3:03 |
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| 03. | |
(I Don't' Stand) A Ghost A Chance |
3:16 |
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| 04. | |
Paradise |
2:41 |
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| 05. | |
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) |
3:15 |
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Laura |
3:17 |
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(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's FunnyThat Way |
3:25 |
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| 08. | |
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) |
3:01 |
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| 09. | |
Over The Rainbow |
3:20 |
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| 10. | |
That Old Black Magic |
2:37 |
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| 11. | |
Spring Is Here |
2:47 |
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| 12. | |
Lover |
2:39 |
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12 Total Tracks, 36:04 Total Length
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