Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion - Come Dance with Me (released 1959)*

Where you can clearly see there's no lapel in the suit jacket.

Overexposed:

 

Only Frank's hat seems the same to me.

The coffee cup might look the same if it was in shot, though they probably didn't reuse it.

 

Yes, it's funny, folks tend to get shamed or ignored whenever these public domain releases from the EU are mentioned. But they are perfectly legal (in the EU, at least), and sometimes -- sometimes -- they are done carefully and well by real fans.

 

Actually, the crease in his hat looks different to me.

And look at his shirt collar: The album cover has rounded tips and a collar pin. All of the other photos (including the black-and-white posed shot with Frank blinking his other eye) have pointed tips and no pin.

 

Sorry, but I strongly disagree. To be legal is not same as to be right. So, because I'm a Sinatra fan and I live in Europe, I can "steal" the recent MFSL masters of ASA and SFSL!, send the copies to a CD replication/printing company and make my own edition. Then I can sell it "legally" in Europe. Is it legal? Yes. Is it right? No, IMO.

I will ask Shawn and Rob what do they think about it.

 

What are you disagreeing with? All I said is that it is legal to reissue public domain recordings in Europe -- which you acknowledge is true -- and that sometimes this is done by true fans who go the extra mile to put out a quality product.

I don't want to derail this thread, so I'll add that I agree with you that it would be legal, but wrong, for someone to steal Mofi's superb and painstaking work on ASA and SFSL. No question about it.

 

That's one of many color studio photos which yielded the cover of the 1959 LP LOOK TO YOUR HEART:

http://www.mptvimages.com/search#frank sinatra color look to your heart​

No doubt that it's the music sheet for "Just in Time" (recorded Sep. 30 and Dec. 9, 1958), if you examine this photo:

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COFFEE CUP ALERT!!!!!

 

IMHO one of Mr. S's poorest recordings. "Now yer heeeeeeeeeeeeeear." always grates on my ears!!!! And it is a boring, unimaginative arrangement.

 

For Just In Time, my two favourites are Dean Martin's and Mel Tormé's. As much as I like Frank, his version doesn't do it for me like those two do.

 

Great find - thanks Matt!

I wonder which session it's from - like Bob notes above, it could be the earlier one which was not used for the album.

 

The question is: Were these photos usually taken before or after the recording session? "Just in Time" was the first song attempted at the Sep. 30 session, and the last recording on Dec. 9.

It's a pure guess on my part, but since these sessions were held at night and ended near or after midnight, I would think they took such publicity shots first. That might mean Frank is holding the lead sheet for the first upcoming number, and these were taken at the session of Sep. 30, 1958 (for which the master of "Just in Time" was not released).

 

Off hand, I can remember two songs we can see sheet music in the shot - one at the Capitol Tower, "Close To You", which was the last song recorded at the session, and another at United, "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", which was recorded in the middle of a session. So, I don't know if when a song was recorded in a session will necessarily help.

 

I'll admit it was a reach. What we need is a working DeLorean.

 

"Ill Wind" is in that shot of Frank without a tie at Melrose, right? That's from the middle of a session too...

 

And as we all know, all such Capitol photos were staged, since the actual sessions took place at Radio Recorders. Right, Matt?

 

Possibly in support of your theory, Bob, there is another picture from this session at MPTV with a clock in the background. Looks to me like it says 9:20.

 

Great catch, Jordan! It so happens that, according to the union contracts, the Sep. 30th session ran from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. So that would mean the photo was taken 10 minutes before Frank started recording the unreleased version of "Just in Time." The Dec. 9th session ran from 9 to 11:15 p.m., and the 9:20 clock time would be during recording of "The Song Is You." Strong support for the earlier session date.

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The eagle eyes on this forum are nearly as good as a working flux capacitor!

 

I love when this happens.

edit: can't believe Frank agreed to come in early for a session.

 

The control room changes might be mid-'59, Matt, from what I remember on that old AES paperwork.

 

Thanks Matt - was there another bit of paperwork you sent me that said something about earlier in the year? Or am I just not remembering correctly?