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Rawls Sings Sinatra
Lou Rawls
Rawls Sings Sinatra
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
  •  Track Listings (12) - Disc #1

Tackling the Sinatra songbook seems like a dicey proposition. Who wants to be compared to one of the greatest singers of all time? Most likely you are going to come up short in comparison. Lou Rawls decided to take on ...  more »

     
   

CD Details

All Artists: Lou Rawls
Title: Rawls Sings Sinatra
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Savoy
Release Date: 9/9/2003
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 795041730329

Synopsis

Album Description
Tackling the Sinatra songbook seems like a dicey proposition. Who wants to be compared to one of the greatest singers of all time? Most likely you are going to come up short in comparison. Lou Rawls decided to take on the challenge on his 2003 release Rawls Sings Sinatra, which features Rawls wrapping his distinctive baritone around 12 songs associated with Sinatra. It is produced very cleanly by Billy Vera, arranged swingingly by Benny Golson. Savoy Jazz.

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CD Reviews

Rawls takes Crown
Mr. Raymond Bennett | Kent, England | 01/12/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Rawls sings Sinatra is the type of album many Lou Rawls fans have waited years for him to produce. A swinging big band, jazzy arrangements with a blues vain throughout. Great songs, fine playing all topped by Rawls' magnificent vocal performances. We have been listening to these songs by Sinatra, Sinatra wanabes or the latest prodigy for over 40 years. How fitting then that Lou Rawls in the autumn of his career should produce one of his finest albums. He takes Mr. Sinatra's classics and makes them his own, given a few listenings the songs on this album sound as if they were written especially for him, dare I say even the phrasing is inch perfect!
Everybody involved in this project can be truly proud to have produced a superb Album that repays repeated plays and the chance to hear one of the Greatest singers of all time with the right material, in the right setting - Frank who!"
Rawls Sings From A Phone Booth
Lawrence J. Kennedy | Norfolk, MA United States | 05/17/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)

"That's what the CD should have been called...this guy has an impeccable voice...so what do they do? They make a recording that was basically unlistenable to me....the orchestra was obviously recorded first and then Rawls sang overdubs....he sounds completely disconnected from the music...if you can get by this then the CD is recommended."
Well, actually 4 1/2 stars!
C S M | Toronto, Ontario Canada | 02/21/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"While I agree with some that Lou Rawls' voice is past its prime, I'd still rather listen to him paying tribute to Sinatra than anyone else! What his amazing voice has lost over the years (and it hasn't lost all that much), he makes up for with phrasing and timing. These songs sound so well-suited to him! Highly recommended."