BOOTLEGS: “SEE THE SHOW AGAIN”
By Mahnuel Muñoz
I guess it happens to almost all of us in this group: once Sinatra gets under our skin, we want more and more and it never seems to be enough. It is a wonderful vice.
Sinatramania hit me very hard when I picked it up, back in 2000. In a few years I was able to get hold of most of their official work, and searching for information on forums and websites I unintentionally stumbled across the vast universe of non-Music discography. official; The shock was overwhelming… hundreds of audio and video titles were circulating among collectors around the world, collecting concerts from all decades, radio and television programs, and recording sessions. It was like discovering a Garden of Delights and I immersed myself in the vegetation in search of treasures.
It was the year 2002 when I got my first “kiss bandit“, an album titled “See The Show Again“, which compiles 24 tracks recorded live at concerts and television shows between 1975 and 1987, with variable sound qualities, but in general quite hello good. With this album I discovered Frank’s versions of Liza Minnelli‘s “Maybe This Time” in “Cabaret“, the “When Joanna Loved Me” popularized by Tony Bennett and his very personal readings of pop hits of the time such as “All By Myself” by Eric Carmen or “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” by Elton John.
I was very shocked to meet such a bold sexagenarian Sinatra, leaving the comfort zone of his beloved standards to offer and offer himself new musical stimuli. I liked even more the different treatments he applied to some of his classics, turning “As Time Goes By” and “In The Wee Small Hours” into beautiful minimalist gems or “Imagination” and “Embraceable You” into moving autumn ballads. But perhaps what captivated me most were several songs that he frequently included in his live shows of the time with the apparent intention of polishing them before immortalizing them in the studio: “The Hungry Years” by Neil Sedaka, “Remember” by Elton John – from which there may be a master – and the one that gives the title to the compilation, the work of Barry Manilow and which sounds very appropriate to the Sinatra of the seventies. Today, more than twenty years after the start of my search, this remains one of my favorite bootlegs.
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