Best of Duets [20th Anniversay]

by Frank Sinatra

Overview

Accompanying the 2013 Deluxe Edition reissue of Frank Sinatra's Duets is The Best of Duets, a 14-track compilation that rounds up highlights from that 1993 album and its 1994 sequel, adding his duet with Luciano Pavarotti on "My Way," a cut previously unreleased in the U.S. (but available on various international editions of the first Duets). As these two albums are cut from the same cloth -- they were assembled from the same long-distance sessions helmed by Phil Ramone -- they compile nicely, and this collection also benefits by emphasizing vocalists familiar with the Great American Songbook over pop/rock novelties. To be sure, such attention-grabbers as Bono and Chrissie Hynde are here (the latter providing one of the liveliest cuts), but this focuses on Barbra Streisand, Luther Vandross, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, and Frank Sinatra, Jr, which does mean this music doesn't seem quite as desperate to please all demographics as it did on the original album. Nothing changes how the Duets project remains a not-entirely essential coda to Sinatra's career, but anybody wanting to sample this swan song would do as well listening to this compilation as they would listening to the actual albums. [A 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 2013.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	11/19/2013
Label:	Capitol
UPC:	0602537544936
Rank:	95491

Tracks

1. Come Fly with Me
2. What Now My Love
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. For Once in My Life
5. I've Got a Crush on You
6. The Lady Is a Tramp
7. Moonlight in Vermont
8. My Kind of Town
9. Embraceable You
10. Luck Be a Lady
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. All the Way/One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
13. New York, New York
14. My Way

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Frank Sinatra   Primary Artist
Aretha Franklin   Primary Artist
Linda Ronstadt   Primary Artist
Frank Sinatra, Jr.   Primary Artist
Tony Bennett   Primary Artist
Charlie Pollard   Primary Artist
Chrissie Hynde   Primary Artist
Celine Dion   Primary Artist
Luther Vandross   Primary Artist
Charles Pollard   Primary Artist
Luis Miguel   Primary Artist
Luciano Pavarotti   Primary Artist
Stevie Wonder   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals,Harmonica
Gloria Estefan   Primary Artist
Bono   Primary Artist
Lena Horne   Primary Artist
Barbra Streisand   Primary Artist
Gladys Knight   Primary Artist
Kenny G   Primary Artist
Patrick Williams   Conductor
Arturo Sandoval   Soloist,Trumpet

Technical Credits

Patrick Williams   Arranger
John Kander   Composer
Gladys Knight   Duet
Harold Arlen   Composer
Kenny G   Duet
Billy Byers   Arranger
Fred Ebb   Composer,Lyricist
Cole Porter   Composer,Lyricist
Chrissie Hynde   Duet
Linda Ronstadt   Duet
Carl Sigman   Composer,Lyric Translation
Frank Sinatra, Jr.   Duet
Paul Anka   Composer,Lyric Translation
Billy May   Arranger
Tony Bennett   Duet
Gilles Thibaut   Composer,Lyricist
Jose Quintana   Vocal Producer
Ronald Miller   Composer,Lyricist
Ronald Alonzo Miller   Composer
Jacques Revaux   Composer
Claude Francois   Composer,Lyricist
Gregory Stone   Translation
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer,Lyricist
Luther Vandross   Duet
Lorenz Hart   Composer,Lyricist
John Blackburn   Composer,Lyricist
Jay Landers   Executive Producer
Johnny Mercer   Composer,Lyricist
James Van Heusen   Composer
Luis Miguel   Duet
Nelson Riddle   Arranger
Phil Ramone   Producer
Karl Suessdorf   Composer
Orlando Murden   Composer
Kiko Cibrian   Vocal Producer
Luciano Pavarotti   Duet
Stevie Wonder   Duet
Gilbert Becaud   Composer
Gloria Estefan   Duet
Bono   Duet
Don Costa   Arranger
Lena Horne   Duet
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Barbra Streisand   Duet
David Foster   Producer
Aretha Franklin   Duet
Sammy Cahn   Composer,Lyricist
Pierre Delanoe   Composer,Lyricist
Frank Loesser   Composer,Lyricist