Sinatra / Reprise Sound Quality, artwork, etc.: "All Alone" - 1962

A buried gem among the Sinatra catalogue. I adore this record. I just wish Mr. S hadn't pulled the plug on the "Come Waltz with Me" theme...obviously distancing himself from the Capitol catalogue. And, I will say it right now up front. This album for some reason had a big following amongst the homosexual community way long before Gay Liberation of the late 60's. Interesting,no? Winner of the LP for me is "Remember". No other earthly being could do what he did with his delivery of the tune.

 

One of the best from Reprise. Each track is hauntingly beautiful, my favorite is The Girl Next Door. And I'm glad the CD included Come Waltz With Me.

If you need samples, I have the Reprise CD. For LP, I have the same R-1007 A4/B4.

 

I've never compared the two.

 

I have the original 1992 CD with the bonus track 'Come Waltz With Me'
it was mastered by Lee Herschberg so probably is not the same mastering
as the suitcase version.

 

That doesn't follow. The suitcase was mastered by Lee Herschberg.

I'll try to do a comparison of the All Alone CD with the suitcase tracks later today...

 

From the thread, Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years (38-Disc Box Set from UMG) ...

So does anyone know the answer to the artist question?

 

I don't have the suitcase version so didn't know that Lee Herschberg mastered both.

 

Many of the 1995 suitcase tracks are from the same digital masterings as the earlier individual CD issues, but there are exceptions. Most were mastered originally by Lee Herschberg.

 

A general online search ("painter Weber") comes up initially with Max Weber, but he died in 1961 and was a Cubist. (Of course, the painting could predate the album.)

Also, the oblong composition makes me think the painting wasn't originally intended to be an album cover.

 

It could have been used on an old CD "long box"...that would have been a cool promo. no?

 

I think it's a lovely album, full of old '20s standards (mostly Berlin, but some others as well). I understand that it was a commercial failure at the time, which is probably why it has been relegated to obscurity over the years. I've got the 1992 CD with the bonus track "Come Waltz With Me." I read on one of the Sinatra forums that the song was recorded during the same sessions and originally intended for the album, but Frank was unhappy with it, and decided to leave it off.

As far as the painting, if you look closely at the CD book, you can read the name "Weber" (as others have already stated). That's it though, no idea who Weber was, and Google has turned up nothing.

 

I was sure you could tell from the hairpiece, Mark.

 

It's been reported that FS scrapped the tune because Cahn and Van Heusen offered it also to Steve Lawrence, who had a hit with it in 1962, before the Sinatra album was released.

 

This was the first Reprise album in the same vein as the great Capitol "suicide" LPs like Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely and No One Cares. I was always touched by daughter Nancy's comment:

 

One of my favorite early Reprise LP's.
It has been said that FS wanted to do a album in Waltz time signatures to take advantage of
of his emotional tentativeness.

 

It has also been speculated that he decided against "Come Waltz With Me" as the title song as he didn't want another lawsuit with Capitol like the one over "Swing Along With Me".

 

He could have included the song and not used it as the album title, but he dropped it altogether.

 

It does: I just listened and compared waveforms. They're a near-exact match. Of course, you should reorder the tracks on Disc 3 of the suitcase, for the proper effect.

[Edit:] BTW, the recent (2011) UMG reissue is identical to the original (1992) Reprise CD, except that the bonus track has been removed along with the extra page of new liner notes by James Isaacs.

 

He isn't wearing a hairpiece in the "Tone Poems/Where Are You" photos. He is in the "All Alone" portrait. Still he doesn't look like Sinatra in the "All Alone" painting. He looks like Dick Cavett.

 

That's the 8 x 10 color portrait that came in original LP issues of Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. See lead post in thread:

—> Ol' Blue Eyes was back: 40 years ago, Frank Sinatra emerged from retirement

 

I always thought more along the lines of Tommy Smothers!

 

I bought that LP over the Summer, and my first thought was "Hey, that's Bob!"