Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color [Original recording remastered]

Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color [Original recording remastered]

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Given the artfulness and expressive capacity Frank Sinatra brought to even some pretty schlocky songs, it's curious that he'd spend an ounce of credibility on the middlebrow dream of Tone Poems of Color. Commissioning and then conducting a dozen orchestral pieces based on radio scriptwriter Norman Sickel's blank verse on hues--"Green is the lover/and I am the lover ... /for green is the color of growing things/and my love only grows"--Sinatra unwittingly gave the early hi-fi era its equivalent of the Wendy Carlos and zodiac LPs that would later consume so many rock fans' hours. Among lots of pseudo-classy background music are a few entertaining notions (the stalking film-credit style of Elmer Bernstein's "Silver," the culture-vulture exoticism of Nelson Riddle's "Orange"). Long out of print, Color reappeared as part of the massive Sinatra/Capitol box Concepts. Its belated release as a single CD will be welcomed by Frank completists and the odd camp-seeker, but most listeners will find it a dispensable period item. Far better that they search for Sinatra's other major baton job, Dean Martin's Sleep Warm. --Rickey Wright

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Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color [Original recording remastered]

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