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Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Laurindo Almeida (guitar); Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Recorded in London, England and Hollywood and Los Angeles, California between December 21, 1960 and April 8, 1981. Includes liner notes by Frank Sinatra, Tina Sinatra and Paul Clemens.
In 1995, looking back on his recorded canon, Sinatra, who's always been smart enough to play to his strengths, identified the regretful, melancholy strain of his repertoire as one of the most consistent and rewarding artistic threads. He was, after all, the quintessential "saloon singer," the guy chewing the bartender's ear off ever so eloquently about his broken dreams. With the wisdom age brings, Sinatra began to appreciate these songs even more in the later years of his life, and decided to grace his fans with this handpicked compilation, representing the darkest nights of the singer's musical soul.
Appropriately, EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME includes its fair share of latter-day recordings, like "The Gal That Got Away" and the despairing title tune, where Sinatra's angst is informed by a lifetime of experience. His memory is too good to neglect his glorious 1960's gloomfests, though; "Once Upon A Time" and "Put Your Dreams Away" are prime mid-period examples of Sinatra's way with a weeper. Along the way, he employs the lyrics of everyone from Jimmy Webb to Paul McCartney in the interest of expressing the pain that lies hidden in the collective heart of the world as we know it.
