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Details Lead Performance: Frank Sinatra; Genre: Jazz

With Ol' Blue Eyes turning 80 years ol' in December, it's the perfect time to listen to Frank Sinatra with a sentimental ear. The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952 is a four-CD set brings together the most enduring tracks from the early crooning-swooner phase of Sinatra's career. Mostly love ballads set to marzipan strings and ooh-aah vocal choruses, this is the kind of stuff that tickles old folks — and shows their grandkids that there's still something sexy in the soft voice of a man murmuring prayers of love. A

Originally posted Dec 01, 1995 Published in issue #303 Dec 01, 1995 Order article reprints

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