Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Song Is You
2. But Not for Me
3. I Had the Craziest Dream
4. It Had to Be You
5. Let's Face the Music and Dance
6. Street of Dreams
7. My Shining Hour
8. All of You
9. More Than You Know
10. They All Laughed
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. Just the Way You Are
13. Something
14. MacArthur Park
15. Theme from New York, New York
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. Song Sung Blue
18. For the Good Times
19. Love Me Tender
20. That's What God Looks Like to Me

Disc 2:

1. What Time Does the Next Miracle Leave?
2. World War None!
3. Future
4. Future (Continued): I've Been There
5. Future (Conclusion): Song Without Words
6. Before the Music Ends (Finale)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80549 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
At age 64, Sinatra recorded this three-LP (now two-CD) epic, a grandiloquent statement which attempted to sum up his career, as well as pay tribute to his status as America's greatest living singer. The result is at turns sublime, awful, and just plain bizarre; "Reflections on the Future in Three Tenses," Gordon Jenkins's bombastic suite that covers the last third of the set, almost gets over on camp value alone. Covers of such contemporary hits as Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and Neil Diamond's "Song Sung Blue" don't really work, but "The Theme from New York, New York" is classic Sinatra all the way. If the Chairman of the Board never made another record, this would at least have made for a suitably larger-than-life exit. --Dan Epstein

Customer Reviews

MIXED BAG
I LOVE Frank, and this album has some my absolute contemporary favorites, including YOU AND ME (which by the way I first heard in the film IRRECONCILIABLE DIFFERENCES...) and SUMMER ME WINTER ME...but the experimentation on Disc 2 is really not successful, and is difficult to stay with. Disc 1 more than makes up for this lapse in musical judgement however -- I just skip Part II completely and settle into the perfection of one of our most treasured pop singers doing what he does best with some of the best material of all time.

You And Me We Wanted It ALL!
The only reason to buy this Frank Sinatra Cd for me was the very underrated ballad YOU AND ME(WE WANTED IT ALL).This song is simply the greatest love song Sinatra has ever sung .Ole Blue Eyes mystical voice range is shown off in this little known classic gem! His voices rises and dips as does the metaphor in this song about a love affair gone bad, but we are told was once the best!Mark my words if you don`t enjoy this Sinatra ballad you just have no heart.This 2 cd set is all best explained on disc 1 with the formentioned song.The Chairman Of The board also gives us his rendition of the Neil Diamond hit Song Sung Blue. And then theres the always powerful New York New York theme that will simply knock your socks off!Disc 2 is quite forgettable as Sinatra tries to take us on some journey through time in 6 stanzas of quite forgettable tunes.Overall a good cd for Francis Albert fans!!

"Trilogy Redux"
When first released in March of 1980, Sinatra's 'Trilogy' was literally an event.

It was Sinatra's first studio album in six years (1974-1979 produced a minimal amout of mediocre singles and an album project with Nelson Riddle
that was aborted).

The "Trilogy" project was comprised of three discs with attempted to capsulize Sinatra's musical and personal persona in three tenses--Past, Present and Future.

Disc 1 "The Past" has FS performing a number of standards he had never recorded before plus re recordings of "The Song is You" and "Let's Face The Music and Dance." Billy May supplied the charts after Nelson Riddle turned down the project owing to some personal conflicts between Riddle and Sinatra

Disc 2 "The Past consisted of much lightweight pop material spanning the rock era--going back to "Love Me Tender" out of 1956, and including songs by Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen, Kris Kristofferson and Jimmy Webb. Ironically enough, including "New York New York" completely out of phase with the rest of the disc musically, but gave Sinatra his first hit single in years and a signature song to replace "My Way."

The 3rd Disc entitled "The Future" was an autobiographical suite composed for Sinatra by Gordon Jenkins....Savaged by critics and ignored by most fans, it became the most controversial musical project of (at that time) the four decade long Sinatra career....."The Future" resulted in WNEW's Jonathan Schwartz being forced off the air for a period of time...Schwartz told his listeners "The Future" was a 'narcissistic mess' and a 'shocking embarrassment'...........(Sinatra called the head of Metromedia to complain and Schwartz was suddenly on sabbatical--Schwartz also claimed Sinatra called and screamed at him for 2 solid minutes)..

During the course of "The Future" Sinatra finds romance on Venus, mob buddies on Pluto and Pizza on Uranus............He makes a last charge at Vegas with Dean Martin and "Sarge" Weiss and does one last great imaginary recording session with Jenkins........

Listening to The Future now, 25 years after the fact and 8 years after Sinatra's passing is a curious personal and musical experience. Though "The Future" sounds more dated than "The Past" and "The Present" because of Jenkins'approach, Sinatra does his best singing of the entire package--

Frank: "And when the cat with the scythe starts tuggin at my sleeve..
I'll be singing when I leave!!!!"

CHORUS 'SINATRA..SINATRA.... SINATRA!

To hell with the critics, this is powerful stuff and today moves me to tears.....