Track Listing

1. Watertown
2. Goodbye (She Quietly Says)
3. For a While
4. Michael and Peter
5. I Would Be in Love (Anyway)
6. Elizabeth
7. What a Funny Girl (You Used to Be)
8. What's Now Is Now
9. She Says
10. Train
11. Lady Day

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47113 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: CD

Album Details
Out of Print in the USA as of 5/4/99. 1969 Release.

Customer Reviews

an overlooked masterpiece
Simply put, this album is a genuine classic...completely transcendent. A grown-up east coast answer to the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" in both arrangement & narrative with perhaps some of Mr Sinatra's most heartbreaking & emotionally-charged vocal deliveries of his career (or at least the latter half of his career).

No Swinging Brass Here
This concept album, released in 1970 was panned by critics and possibly had the poorest sales of all his Reprise LP's. Yet it's my favourite FS disc. Far superior to the previous Man Alone record, Frank "sings" an entire bittersweet love story with a depth of feeling that surpasses anything he had done previously or released since. Yeah, his voice cracks and shows signs of age but that only adds to the melancholy flavour of this masterpiece. "Lady Day" is the only sour note here - It's a great song, but doesn't belong on this disc (It wasn't on the original vinyl LP)

One of Sinatra's all time best.
I've always liked Frank Sinatra but I never really understood why he was revered as "the best". Anytime people talked about the classic crooners or the all time greatest pop vocalists, it seemed that Sinatra was at the top of everyone's list. I knew he was a good singer but always thought "is he really the absolute best?" I mean, what makes him better than Dean Martin or Jack Jones or Tony Bennett or Nat King Cole or Andy Williams? Well, not to take away from any other performer of classic pop standards but there were two Sinatra albums that answered all my previous questions. The first was "September Of My Years" and the second is "Watertown". Two of the greatest albums ever recorded, in my opinion. After hearing Sinatra's untouchable performance of these Bob Gaudio/Jake Holmes songs, I finally understand what makes Sinatra the greatest of them all.