This 1981 television event, part of the Reprise Collection, has America's national crooning treasure, the great Frank Sinatra, singing with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra. For... more
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ol' Blue Eyes in mellow mood with the sweetly modest Count Basie and his Orchestra. The selection of songs on offer is ample evidence that no popular singer coul...
It's a fine idea, and would have been finer still if someone had roused themselves to make a bit more of an effort with the packaging. As it is, it is possible to deduce that the performances here were recorded for television in 1965, and involve the orchestras of Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins, but beyond that, we're on our own. That minor quibble aside, there is no serious reason why every man, woman and child alive should not want to own this. A Man and His Music focuses on the upbeat lounge-lizard portion of Sinatra's incomparable oeuvre, showing him snapping his fingers through a series of impeccable songs ("I've Got You Under My Skin", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "The Lady is a Tramp", among others) in a series of impeccable suits. On the DVD: Those responsible for A Man and His Music are clearly of the (not unreasonable) belief that Sinatra doesn't require garnish: the only special features are a menu for selecting individual songs, a catalogue of other DVDs in the Sinatra series and, last and most certainly least, an enragingly superfluous trailer for the DVD you've already bought. The pictures are in 4:3 format, and subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian are available.--Andrew Mueller
up by Nelson Riddle's fabulous orchestra. And on A Man and His Music we're not disappointed. Sinatra shares two medleys with Ella, who is in magisterial form, and in between he sings a bossa nova medley to the accompaniment of Jobim's guitar. The concert gets off to a cracking start with a Sinatra favourite "Day In Day Out", the arrangement emphasising the "drum-athon" theme of the show, whereby the rhythm section of the orchestra show off their prowess in a series of beat-driven arrangements. Sinatra sets this up with some amusing banter as we follow him to a rostrum where a superb bass player (unnamed) picks out the walking bass line of "Get Me to the Church On Time" which builds inexorably to a pounding finish. He then sings the bolero "What Now My Love?" to a brilliantly executed freewheeling trombone line, and recalls "Ol' Man River" as though he were improvising it on the spot. Ella brings her heart and soul appropriately enough to "Body and Soul" before ripping up the joint with "It's All Right with Me". In their first medley there are some happy exchanges between Ella and Frank. The medley ends with them chanting "Goin' Out of My Head", a pop song likely to bring on a state of catatonic boredom. The Jobim medley has one unintentionally funny moment when Sinatra with cigarette in hand sings to Jobim Irving Berlin's "Change Partners" ("Must you dance every dance, with the same fortunate man") without a flicker of expression. The second Ella/Frank medley is a corker led off by "The Song is You". The artists are so entertaining that you almost forget the backdrop, a hideous orange set. After a camp pirouette or two Sinatra sobers up by putting his dreams away. On the DVD: as with other discs in this series there is the obligatory trailer with Sinatra arriving at an empty sound stage, only for the picture to burst into life for a cut away shot of him singing "I've Got You Under My Skin". Subtitles are available. The soundtrack is perfectly respectable and wears its 30-odd years lightly. --Adrian Edwards
This 1981 television event, part of the Reprise Collection, has America's national crooning treasure, the great Frank Sinatra, singing with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra. For an hour, Ol' Blue Eyes sings some of his most heartwarming tunes, including "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "At Long Last Love," "Pennies From Heaven," "The Best Is Yet To Come," and "Theme From NEW YORK, NEW YORK."
...The daughters of a music teacher in Connecticut, Laurie, Amy and Fran, all meet men and prepare to marry in the space of a year. But there are problems afoot. Amy falls in love with Laurie's fiance, Alex. Then a friend of Alex, Barney Sloan, turns up and sets his cap at Laurie. Will the three girls find happiness with the right man? Or are they destined to be unhappy for the rest of their lives?
I'm partial to the occasional old movie. This particular film is over fifty years old and pretty much all of its stars are now dead. However, there is a charm to it that outweighs the cheesiness of the set and the story and it is not hard to see why it is classed as one of the movie greats. Not only does it star Doris Day and FrankSinatra, but it has both of them singing beautiful songs. A perfect Saturday afternoon film.
Doris Day plays...
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...hostage and it soon becomes clear that Baron's plan is to assassinate the President. Can the Bensons and the Sheriff alert the outside world to their predicament? Or will Baron be successful in his goal?
Although this film is in black and white (it was made in 1954), it is one of my favourite films and has long had a place in my DVD collection. I first watched it by accident, but FrankSinatra's stunning performance have made me come back to it again and again. This is an excellent example of how good films were way back when, despite the lack of technical ability that exists today.
FrankSinatra plays John Baron. It is clear from the start that Baron has problems. He constantly boasts that he killed a number of Nazis during the War and that the President is just one more, yet he is easily undermined by criticism, as Pop Benson and Sheriff...
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...High Society needs to be seen even if its just for the timeless 'what a swell party' scene with the legends that are FrankSinatra and Bing Crosby. It is not often these two greats sing together "we sing so rare."
The great characters are my favourite element of the film, the music comes second and the script which includes some great lines comes third, for instance "shut up you fool" (Louis Calhern with a hangover talking to a bird singing in a tree.)
High society is by far my favourite musical as I watched it over and over again as a kid showing that it is pure family entertainment. From Sinatra's singing to Grace Kelly's elegance and back to Bing Crosby's one-liners it is a must see for all....
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