Duets

RELEASE
1993
LABEL
Capitol/EMI Records
GENRES
Vocal Music, Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Vocal Pop

Album Review

As a marketing concept, Frank Sinatra's comeback album Duets was a complete success. A collection of Sinatra standards produced by Phil Ramone, the record wasn't a duets album in the conventional sense -- Sinatra never recorded in the studio with his partners. Instead, the other singers recorded their tracks separately, sometimes in different studios, and the two tracks were pasted together. In the case of several duet partners, including Bono and Barbara Streisand, this means they rely on camp as a way of making their performances interesting. Duets was a gigantic hit, rising to number two on the pop charts and selling over two million copies, becoming Sinatra's single most commercially successful record. The album was promoted as a piece of nostalgia, primarily to baby boomers but also to Generation X as a piece of kitsch. "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," essentially a solo performance introduced by an instrumental from saxophonist Kenny G, is a track in which the real emotional core of Sinatra's music is on display.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. The Lady Is a Tramp
  2. The Lady Is a Tramp
  3. What Now, My Love?
  4. What Now, My Love?
  5. I've Got a Crush on You
  6. I've Got a Crush on You
  7. Summer Wind
  8. Summer Wind
  9. Come Rain or Come Shine
  10. Come Rain or Come Shine
  11. Theme from New York, New York
  12. Theme from New York, New York
  13. They Can't Take That Away from Me
  14. They Can't Take That Away from Me
  15. You Make Me Feel So Young
  16. You Make Me Feel So Young
  17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry/In the Wee Small Hours of the Morni
  18. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry/In the Wee Small Hours of the Morni
  19. I've Got the World on a String
  20. I've Got the World on a String
  21. Witchcraft
  22. Witchcraft
  23. I've Got You Under My Skin
  24. I've Got You Under My Skin
  25. All the Way/One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
  26. All the Way/One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)