Trilogy

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Frank Sinatra's 3-LPs-ON-2-CDs: TRILOGY: PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE: DISC 1: THE PAST: Collectibles of the Early Years: Frank Sinatra with Billy May 1. The 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. THE PRESENT: Some Very Good Years. Frank Sinatra with Don Costa. 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. Disc 2: THE FUTURE: Reflections on the Future in Three Tenses. Frank Sinatra with Gordon Jenkins. 1. What Time Does The Nex Miracle Leave? 2. World War None! 3. The Future 4. The Future (continued) "I've Been There!" 5. The Future (conclusion) "Song Without Words" 6. Finale: Before The Music Ends. Two separate traditional plastic jewel cases, both UPC 075992230025. Produced by Sonny Burke. Reprise Records, a Warner Communications Company. 1980 Bristol Productions, Inc. .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

Trilogy: Past, Present And Future