Sinatra & Company

Studio album by Frank Sinatra

Released

1971

Recorded

February 11, 1969 –
October 29, 1970
Hollywood

Genre

Classic pop

Length

40:03

Label

Reprise
FS 1033

Producer

Don Costa (tracks: B1 to B7), Sonny Burke (tracks: A1 to A7)

Frank Sinatra chronology

Watertown
(1970)

Sinatra & Company
(1971)

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1972)

SinatraJobim

The original artwork

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Mojo	^[2]

Sinatra & Company is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra released in 1971.

The first side of this album is in the bossa nova style, and the second side is influenced by soft rock, featuring a couple of standards from John Denver.

The bossa nova recordings were originally cut for a follow-up to the widely acclaimed Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. Arranged by Eumir Deodato, the recordings had been completed, the artwork finalized, and an 8-track tape release of the planned album, titled Sinatra–Jobim, briefly made available when the decision was made to retrench. Some of Sinatra's less mainstream albums hadn't performed well, and anxieties drove the creation of this hybrid.

Three songs recorded at the Sinatra-Jobim session – "Bonita", "Sabiá", and "Off Key (Desafinado)" – were omitted from Sinatra & Company. "Sabiá" was released in the USA as the flip side of the 45 rpm single "Lady Day" (Reprise 0970) in 1970, and was issued along with "Bonita" on the 1977 compilation Portrait of Sinatra and the 1979 compilation, Sinatra–Jobim Sessions . "Off Key (Desafinado)" was unreleased until its inclusion on the box set The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings in 1995. In 2010 the Concord Records label issued Sinatra–Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings, a comprehensive collection of all the tracks recorded by Sinatra and Jobim.

A few 8 track versions of Sinatra–Jobim did survive, and are now eagerly sought after by collectors.^[3]

Track listing

"Drinking Water" (Vinicius de Moraes, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel) – 2:35
"Someone to Light Up My Life" (de Moraes, Jobim, Gene Lees) – 2:37
"Triste" (Jobim) – 2:40
"Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa de Você) (Ray Gilbert, Dolores Durán, Jobim) – 2:28
"This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca) (de Moraes, Jobim, Lees) – 2:57
"Wave" (Jobim) – 3:25
"One Note Samba" (Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Jon Hendricks) – 2:20
"I Will Drink the Wine" (Paul Ryan) – 3:30
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:34
"Sunrise in the Morning" (Ryan) – 2:50
"Bein' Green" (Joe Raposo) – 3:00
"My Sweet Lady" (John Denver) – 3:01
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" (John Denver) – 2:25
"Lady Day" (Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes) – 3:41

Personnel

Frank Sinatra – vocals
Antônio Carlos Jobim – guitar, scat singing (tracks 1–7)
Don Costa – arranger, conductor (tracks 8–14)
Eumir Deodato – arranger (tracks 1–7)
Morris Stoloff – conductor (tracks 1–7)

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Andrew Male Mojo, January 2010, Issue 194.
↑ http://www.8trackheaven.com/archive/sinatra.html

Frank Sinatra

Studio albums

Columbia	The Voice of Frank Sinatra Songs by Sinatra Christmas Songs by Sinatra Frankly Sentimental Dedicated to You Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra

Capitol	Songs for Young Lovers Swing Easy! In the Wee Small Hours Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Close to You A Swingin' Affair! Where Are You? A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra Come Fly with Me Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely Come Dance with Me! No One Cares Nice 'n' Easy Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! Come Swing with Me! Point of No Return Duets Duets II

Reprise	Ring-a-Ding-Ding! Sinatra Swings I Remember Tommy Sinatra and Strings Sinatra and Swingin' Brass All Alone Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First The Concert Sinatra Sinatra's Sinatra Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners America, I Hear You Singing It Might as Well Be Swing 12 Songs of Christmas Softly, as I Leave You September of My Years My Kind of Broadway A Man and His Music Moonlight Sinatra Strangers in the Night That's Life Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim The World We Knew Francis A. & Edward K. The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas Cycles My Way A Man Alone Watertown Sinatra & Company Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Some Nice Things I've Missed Trilogy: Past Present Future She Shot Me Down

Qwest	L.A. Is My Lady

Live albums

Compilations

Soundtrack albums

Other albums

Box sets

Tribute albums

Tribute films

Videography

Concert tours

Together Again Tour (1988)
The Diamond Jubilee World Tour (1990-1991)

Book
Category

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Studio albums	The Composer of Desafinado, Plays (1963) The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim (1965) A Certain Mr. Jobim (1967) Wave (1967) Tide (1970) Stone Flower (1970) Jobim (1973) Urubu (1976) Terra Brasilis (1980) Antonio Brasileiro (1995)

Live albums	Jazzvisions (1986)

Compilations	Sinatra–Jobim Sessions (1979)

Soundtracks	Lost Highway (1997)

Collaborations	Getz/Gilberto (1963, Stan Getz) Jazz Samba Encore! (1963, Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá) Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1963, Stan Getz) Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967, Frank Sinatra) Sinatra & Company (1971, Frank Sinatra) Elis & Tom (1974, Elis Regina) "Fly Me to the Moon" (1994, Frank Sinatra)

Compositions	"Água de Beber" (Drinking-Water) "Waters of March" "Chega de Saudade" (No More Blues) "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) "Desafinado" (Slightly Out of Tune) "Dindi" "The Girl from Ipanema" "How Insensitive" "Inútil Paisagem" (If You Never Come to Me) "Look to the Sky" "Meditation" "One Note Samba" "Someone to Light Up My Life" "Wave"

As contributor	Canção do Amor Demais (1958, Elizete Cardoso) Chega de Saudade (1959, João Gilberto) Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann, Latin Fever (1962, Herbie Mann) The Swinger from Rio (1965, Sérgio Mendes) Love, Strings and Jobim (1966, various) Abandoned Garden (1995, Michael Franks)

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