Frank Sinatra - "Come Fly With Me" (1958) - Capitol Records
Hello Friends,
If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar in far Bombay that has Ol' Blue Eyes on the turntable tonight.
Come Fly With Me is one of Sinatra's "concept" albums with all the songs being about globe-trotting to strange and romantic lands. It also marks his first collaboration with arranger, Billy May.
The album kicks off with the inviting title track, written especially for Frank by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen.
It ends with the upbeat "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" where the tired gypsy traveler returns home and turns his attention away from the frauleins and senoritas to a quiet night at home where he burns his passport, lights a fire, puts on his slippers and makes a pizza! (Literally, the last words spoken on this record is "make a pizza"!)
In between the departure and the return, there's "The Isle of Capri", "Moonlight in Vermont", "Autumn in New York", "The Road to Mandalay" (based on a Rudyard Kipling poem), "April in Paris", "London By Night", "Brazil" and a "Blue Hawaii".
Overall its one of Sinatra's most fun and jauntiest records.
FUN FACT # 1: This album was nominated for album of the year at the very first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959. It lost out to Henry Mancini's Music from Peter Gunn!
FUN FACT # 2: Frank Sinatra was supposedly upset with the album cover because he thought it looked like an ad for TWA. I've never had their coffee, but I really like the TWA Tea!
RATING: 4.5 Paddles Chonkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay out of 5
If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar in far Bombay that has Ol' Blue Eyes on the turntable tonight.
Come Fly With Me is one of Sinatra's "concept" albums with all the songs being about globe-trotting to strange and romantic lands. It also marks his first collaboration with arranger, Billy May.
The album kicks off with the inviting title track, written especially for Frank by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen.
It ends with the upbeat "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" where the tired gypsy traveler returns home and turns his attention away from the frauleins and senoritas to a quiet night at home where he burns his passport, lights a fire, puts on his slippers and makes a pizza! (Literally, the last words spoken on this record is "make a pizza"!)
In between the departure and the return, there's "The Isle of Capri", "Moonlight in Vermont", "Autumn in New York", "The Road to Mandalay" (based on a Rudyard Kipling poem), "April in Paris", "London By Night", "Brazil" and a "Blue Hawaii".
Overall its one of Sinatra's most fun and jauntiest records.
FUN FACT # 1: This album was nominated for album of the year at the very first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959. It lost out to Henry Mancini's Music from Peter Gunn!
FUN FACT # 2: Frank Sinatra was supposedly upset with the album cover because he thought it looked like an ad for TWA. I've never had their coffee, but I really like the TWA Tea!
RATING: 4.5 Paddles Chonkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay out of 5
