My Way: The Review:

Music industry review: My way: the best of Frank Sinatra

Sinatra is a world known name as it should be for he is known as one of the greatest musical figures of all time, recognised for his charm, charisma and evidently his voice that outruns any of today’s singers. As we know his most memorable pieces of work were during the 50s 60s and 70s with other pieces placed before and after this era.

 My way is a collection of all of Sinatra’s finest pieces that have been known to everyone of the last century. The Album My way features his greatest hits such as fly me to the moon, For once in my life as well as the lady is a tramp and many more.

Disc 1:

1. My Way

2. Strangers In The Night

3. New York New York

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. Somethin' Stupid

6. Moon River

7. What Now My Love

8. Summer Wind

9. For Once In My Life

10. Love And Marriage

11. They Can't Take That Away From Me

12. My Kind Of Town

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. Best Is Yet To Come

16. It Was A Very Good Year

17. Come Fly With Me

18. That's Life

19. Girl From Ipanema

20. Lady Is A Tramp

21. Bad Bad Leroy Brown

22. Mack The Knife

23. Love's Been Good To Me

24. LA Is My Lady

Disc 2:

1. Let's Face The Music And Dance

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. Night And Day

4. Very Thought Of You

5. Pennies From Heaven

6. Bewitched

7. America The Beautiful

8. All The Way

9. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

10. Way You Look Tonight

11. Three Coins In The Fountain

12. Softly As I Leave You

13. All Over Nothing At All

14. Yesterday

15. Moonlight Serenade

16. Somewhere My Love

17. Mrs Robinson

18. Something

19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

20. Send In The Clowns

21. It Had To Be You

22. Best Of Everything

In total an impressive 42 tracks are collected and given in this magical musical offer from the king of swing himself. All of these many songs represent the warmth of ‘o’l blue eyes’ and how he appealed to everyone around the world with his soft voice, his smart profound suit, the slanted balck hat dipped slightly to the side. All of these things encapsulates Sinatra and his music by offering fantastic songs such as ‘come fly with me’ and ‘pennies from heaven’ which have known to have been performed by many other famous swingers who have left their imprint in music history thanks to Sinatra including Ella Fitzgerald and Dean Martin.

However as I examined the CD further I sadly discovered some songs had unfortunately managed to linger amongst the brilliant classics that we all know and love such as ‘best is yet to come’. For example songs such as ‘Mack the knife’ or ‘bad bad Leroy Brown’ which have not been some of my favourite pieces especially coming from an artist with such immense skill as Sinatra, I was slightly disappointed for I felt the songs such as the following did not do justice to Franks name.

To conclude I am satisfied, but pleased of this CD as it is a compelling history of the singer who ruled the last century. I give this CD five stars despite some of the poor collaboration of song choices during halfway through disc 2 (yet i suppose that’s why the skip button is available to every swinger). I am pleased to say however that there is more good than bad when it comes down to the end of things. As it says on the king of swings tomb the best is yet to come, than it is indeed right for the best has come in my way.