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Frank Sinatra - Watertown (1970) [2010, Remastered Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 2 Feb 2023 17:54:47

"Watertown" (subtitled "A Love Story") is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1970 through Reprise Records. It is a concept album centered on a man from Watertown, New York. In a series of soliloquies, the nameless narrator tells his heartbreaking story of personal loss: his wife has left him and their two boys for the lure of the big city. Watertown was produced and co-written by Bob Gaudio, one of four members of the rock band the Four Seasons, with Jake Holmes also co-writing the songs. It is the only album where Sinatra ever voiced over pre-recorded orchestral tracks. The album was released to mixed critical reviews and poor sales, with it being Sinatra's only major album release not to chart inside the top 100 of the Billboard 200. It has since been reevaluated and many consider it to be among his finest albums.

~Wikipedia

Watertown is Frank Sinatra's most ambitious concept album, as well as his most difficult record. Not only does it tell a full-fledged story, it is his most explicit attempt at rock-oriented pop. Since the main composer of Watertown is Bob Gaudio, the author of the Four Seasons' hits "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," "Walk Like a Man," and "Big Girls Don't Cry," that doesn't come as a surprise. With Jake Holmes, Gaudio created a song cycle concerning a middle-aged, small-town man whose wife left him with the kids. Constructed as a series of brief lyrical snapshots that read like letters or soliloquies, the culminating effect of the songs is an atmosphere of loneliness, but it is a loneliness without much hope or romance - it is the sound of a broken man. Producer Charles Calello arranged musical backdrops that conveyed the despair of the lyrics. Weaving together prominent electric guitars, keyboards, drum kits, and light strings, Calello uses pop/rock instrumentation and production techniques, but that doesn't prevent Sinatra from warming to the material. In fact, he turns in a wonderful performance, drawing out every emotion from the lyrics, giving the album's character depth.

~Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Release of the album: 1970, March [LP Reprise Records, Cat.# FS 1031, USA]
Release of this CD: 2010 [CD Universal International Music B.V. (Germany), Cat.# 0602527200460 / UPC: 602527200460]
℗ 1998 and © 2010 Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC,
under exclusive license to Universal International Music B.V. for the world excluding US & Canada.
Manufactured & distributed by Universal International Music B.V.

Credits:

Produced by: Bob Gaudio
Composed by: Bob Gaudio, Jake Holmes
Engineer: Frank Laico
Artwork: Ove Olsen

Recorded July 14, 17, 1969, Voice overdubs August 25-27, 1969

Tracklist:

01. Watertown (03:36)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
02. Goodbye (She Quietly Says) (03:06)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
03. For A While (03:10)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
04. Michael & Peter (05:10)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
05. I Would Be In Love (Anyway) (02:33)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
06. Elizabeth (03:38)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
07. What A Funny Girl (You Used To Be) (03:01)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
08. What's Now Is Now (04:06)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
09. She Says (01:54)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)
10. The Train (03:26)
(Bob Gaudio / Jake Holmes)

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DR8 -1.37 dB -12.88 dB 3:06 02-Goodbye (She Quietly Says)
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