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Somebody told me the "Come Back to Sorrento" lp never made it to cd. Izzat still true?
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From the London Observer, Benny Green wrote when Sinatra announced his early 1970's retirement:
"What few people, apart from musicians, have ever seemed to grasp is that he is not simply the best popular singer of his generation, a latter-day Jolson or Crosby, but the culminating point in an evolutionary process which has refined the art of interpreting words set to music.
Nor is there even the remotest possibility that he will have a successor. Sinatra was the result of a fusing of a set of historical circumstances which can never be repeated."
Quoted in The Great American Popular Singers by Henry Pleasants (Simon and Schuster, 1974)
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I've always liked Point of No Return. It definitely feels like "the end of something" and the (lush) re-recording of previous Sinatra favorites only makes the album all the more reflective. It's quite different in tone than the first several Reprise albums to come, where Frank had a renewed vigor and enthusiasm.
I have never been able to get into the stuff pre-dating Capitol, try though I may.
That's because you "haven't lived and loved like Frank".
Brm
P.s. first person to get the reference gets a cookie
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I shiver with dread when i see bold in this thread!!
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You sons of Barrabus sure are lucky to have me here. I'm a regular Second Coming of Richard Negative Doble Ve.
Don't worry, I'll be sure to remind you all again later.
The hairs on my neck stood up when you wrote that Jim.
And the cat went white and hid in the cupboard under the stairs. He wont come out for days now.
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In fairness Oct looking back over this thread i think the forum may owe you a debt of gratitude for whatever percentage of push you contributed.
I dont know about Marshall Man of the Year - or if such an esteemed award still runs - but you are certainly a strong forerunner for the Carson Man of the Year. Even if its for lifetime services, im prepared to backdate to 2015!! 
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In fairness Oct looking back over this thread i think the forum may owe you a debt of gratitude for whatever percentage of push you contributed.
I dont know about Marshall Man of the Year - or if such an esteemed award still runs - but you are certainly a strong forerunner for the Carson Man of the Year. Even if its for lifetime services, im prepared to backdate to 2015!!
The award ended after four years.YOU try finding five people on this board worthy of honor. Lol!
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