Continuing Frank Sinatra's centennial year celebration ahead
of the icon's December 12 birthday, three classic 1965 Sinatra albums will be
reissued worldwide on 180-gram vinyl by FSE/UMe on November 20 to commemorate
their 50th anniversaries. The essential albums -- Sinatra '65 and Album Of The
Year GRAMMY Award® winners September Of My Years and 2LP Sinatra: A Man And His
Music -- were originally released on Sinatra's own Reprise label. The
commemorative vinyl reissues are presented with faithfully replicated original
artwork, including A Man And His Music's 2LP gatefold sleeve.
Originally released in June 1965, Sinatra '65 presents
various singles and songs in one collection, including "My Kind Of
Town," "Luck Be A Lady," "Somewhere In Your Heart,"
and "Stay With Me." The new commemorative vinyl edition returns this
Top 10 Billboard classic to print in the U.S.
Released in September 1965, three months before Sinatra's
50th birthday, September Of My Years fittingly features "It Was A Very
Good Year," as the landmark LP won the year's GRAMMY Award for Album Of
The Year. The Top 5 Billboard album has been hailed by Allmusic.com as
"one of Frank Sinatra's triumphs of the '60s, an album that consolidated
his strengths while moving him into new territory, primarily in terms of tone."
In November 1965, as Sinatra's 50th birthday approached, he
was celebrated with a primetime NBC television special and he released a double
LP with the same title: Sinatra: A Man And His Music. Envisioned as a
compendium of Sinatra's music career to that point, the double album included
Reprise recorded versions of many of his most popular songs and audio narration
by Sinatra himself. Among the album's
tracks are "Come Fly With Me," "Fly Me To The Moon,"
"In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning," "I've Got You Under My
Skin," "Love and Marriage," "Witchcraft," and
"Young At Heart." A Man And His Music earned Sinatra his second
consecutive Album Of The Year GRAMMY, while the TV special was nominated for
three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, winning the Emmy for Outstanding
Music Program as well as a Peabody Award.
These vinyl reissues follow Capitol/UMe's April release of
Ultimate Sinatra, a career-spanning collection celebrating Frank Sinatra's
centennial year. The acclaimed collection is available worldwide in 25-track
CD, 26-track digital, 24-track 180-gram 2LP, and deluxe, 101-track 4CD and
digital editions, presenting the Chairman of the Board's recordings for
Columbia, Capitol and Reprise together for the first time.
On October 21, Frank Sinatra will be honored at the GRAMMY
Museum®'s 2015 Architects of Sound Awards at Los Angeles' Club Nokia,
benefiting the Museum's education initiatives. Hosted by Stevie Van Zandt and
Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, the dinner and Ken
Ehrlich-produced concert will be held in conjunction with the Los Angeles
opening of the immersive Sinatra: An American Icon exhibit at the GRAMMY
Museum.
About Frank Sinatra
Throughout his six-decade career, Frank Sinatra performed on
more than 1,400 recordings and was awarded 31 gold, nine platinum, three double
platinum and one triple platinum album by the Recording Industry Association of
America. Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to appeal to every
generation and continues to do so; his artistry still influences many of
today's music superstars. He also appeared in more than 60 films and produced
eight motion pictures.
Sinatra was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from The
Recording Academy, The Screen Actors Guild and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the Kennedy Center Honors,
the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Today, he
remains a legend and an inspiration around the world for his contributions to
culture and the arts.
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