Frank Sinatra-Frank Sinatra (1967)

 

Artist: Frank Sinatra

Title: Frank Sinatra (The World We Knew)

Label: Reprise

Format: LP

Cat #: FS 1022

Year of Release: 1967

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1967 Pitman Pressing

Listed Condition: VG+/VG

Sell Date: 11/26/25

Sell Price: $20.88

Discogs Last Sold 10/29/25 VG/VG $8.00

Low: $2.00

Median: $7.00

Average: $7.37

High: $20.88

Current low price: $10.99 VG/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2

Have/Want: 134/54

Where Sold: Lafayette, IN

Time it took to sell: 6 months

Where and When Bought: Whatnot vinyl auction lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

I've been on a bit of a Reprise-era Sinatra kick of late.  Somehow, of the dozen or so ones I got dirt cheap on auction and mostly played, I hadn't got around to hearing this one until now.    Rock critic land always preferred the Capitol years and even the Columbia ones.  Reprise albums always got a bit of the short shrift except for maybe Strangers In The Night.  This one is the year after.   1967.  For Frank, a very good year.

For starters, his daughter Nancy was hot on the heels of Boots, so the centerpiece of this album is their #1 hit duet "Something Stupid."  I always equate that with my late Grandfather (the Polish one not the Italian one) listening to the Easy Listening (70's style) radio station in his Cadillac, with mostly instrumental muzak playing.  This might be one of the few vocal songs to make that cut over boomy car stereo FM radio on a cruise control highway.  Maybe he even sang along.

Frank Sinatra is often referred to as The World We Knew, with the track title right below Sinatra's name on the cover (but not on the spine).  If he had another album named after himself up to that point I can't find evidence of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is one.  As for this, I dig the kitsch pop '67 production: Lee Hazelwood's "This Town" with some tough sounding organ (!) inappropriate for the soundtrack (The Cool Ones) and a bonkers orchestrated "Some Enchanted Evening" closes the album.  Other highlights are "Born Free" and Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep In The Subway."  After that, there is "Drinking Again" and not before that subway nap.  That was the last enchanted evening.  Never let her go!

Rat Pack concerns for Rat Pack times.