Wait by the Fire -Frank Sinatra

Great photos, thanks for sharing Bob!

I have to admit, seeing Frank and Tiny Tim together might have been that Kodak moment when "REPRISE" as a record label, really changed hands?

 

Reprise had been recording some big name rock bands by that time of late 1968. The "change" was well underway. Logo and all.

 

I actually prefer the version of Never My Love that the Adressi Brothers did on their Columbia debut to the one by The Association.

 

This thread is fantastic. And I don't think I've ever seen that second photo of FAS and George before---oh to be a fly on the wall.

I enjoy Cycles a great deal---there's an effort and sincerity there (well, maybe not on Moody River) to try to put across contemporary material with a Sinatra imprimatur that, for instance, I don't hear in the album That's Life. By The Time I Get To Phoenix really is a fine, sensitive interpretation and is probably my favorite track. And I love what he does with Wandering---there's an interview with Gayle Caldwell on youtube somewhere where she assesses that as probably being a better song than Cycles.

 

Agreed @JimSav. By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wandering, Both Sides Now and Cycles are great tracks off the album.

 

Wandering is in my top ten Sinatra , but that sounds like the start of another thread !

 

Re-listening to the snippet of "Wait By The Fire" by Paal Flaata, in my post #8 and I have to say that I really think that the song sounds like something that Sinatra would have tackled a few years later on "Watertown".

 

This is a bit off-topic, but the same MPTV search which yields those photos also results in several color shots wrongly attributed to the same session of Nov. 13, 1968. These include the Cycles cover photo (Frank sitting in an open harp case), and the one used on the cover of Strangers in the Night from 1966, but the MPTV captions are misdated. In reality, both cover photos were shot at a much earlier session for Moonlight Sinatra, Nov. 29–30, 1965.





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Thread bump for @93curr: —> Sinatra experts: "Cycles' album track list?

 

A year later, the whole song is available online...

 

To quote Mr. S...."PASS!"

 

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Here are more studio photos (by Ed Thrasher) from the CYCLES sessions at Western Recorders in November 1968:

The de rigueur coffee cup (for Paul Mock):



With George Harrison and Pattie Boyd:



With Tiny Tim:



(Sorry about the watermarks; click the images for MPTV preview pages.)

 

This is a bit off-topic, but the same MPTV search which yields the above photos also results in several color shots wrongly attributed to the same session of Nov. 13, 1968. These include the Cycles cover photo (Frank sitting in an open harp case), and the one used on the cover of Strangers in the Night from 1966, but the MPTV captions are misdated. In reality, both cover photos were shot at a much earlier session for Moonlight Sinatra, Nov. 29–30, 1965.





(Click images for MPTV preview pages.)

 

They are mentioned in the liner notes by Hal Halverstadt…

“There is also a new wave of drop-in celebrities: […] the ineffable Tiny Tim (who in a sidelines conversation with ‘Mr.’ Sinatra became so excited that, lacking a slip of paper on which to write some phone numbers, pulled up one pant leg and pencilled them on his ankle); and (heads turning, eyebrows raised) Beatle George Harrison and his wife, Patti, fresh from camera waving and hand shaking at a benefit showing of Yellow Submarine.”