Need a Frank Sinatra recommendation

listen to chazzbo. he's dead on. SFSL and OTL are sinatra's 2 best albums; honorable mention should go to sinatra w/ basie (has pennies from heaven and others), sinatra w/ jobim, and come fly w/ me. all great albums.

but the man was in his day in the 50s w/ capitol. nothing in reprise compares.

that's not to say i don't like the reprise stuff. i'm just suggesting where to start.

and yes, for a comp album, the reprise collection or the capitol 3-disc set are just fine.

rhyno (i got about 80 sinatra discs myself)

If you really want to hear Sinatra at his vocal best, you have to go very early '50s and '40s. When he was with Dorsey, he was amazing. He only sings, of course, on half the song length, because, obviously, Dorsey was the big deal. Sinatra was over from the late '50s to My Way and the ubiquitous, NY,NY. That is definitely not Sinatra-type song. Liza Minelli, maybe. I know, I know, fans will go nuts. I am a fan, and he never sounded better or close to it then in those early years. That's not to say he was small change later, but not the same voice.

Here's the recording for ya: The Voice. On Columbia, Legacy. Forties stuff-mid to late. This is a killer recording. It's in mono-His voice NEVER sounded better.