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Some Nice Things I've Missed (1974)

Where the lyrics of Some Nice Things I've Missed take you, and where it was really made.

The title hides a gap in Sinatra's catalogue: during his 1971–1973 retirement he missed songs by other artists, and this album is him catching up on them.

Key places

Recording sessions at The Burbank Studios (1974)

Recording site The Burbank Studios — The album was recorded between December 1973 and May 1974, and the MusicBrainz data credits The Burbank Studios as the recording place. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Some Nice Things I've Missed: 1974 album by American singer Frank Sinatra
• Consists mainly of songs made popular by other artists
• Title reflects that Sinatra was catching up on songs that came out while he was in retirement from 1971 to 1973
• Ten tracks, including "Sweet Caroline", "If", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
• Track list with composers and running times: "You Turned My World Around" (Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, Kim Carnes, Dave Ellingson) 2:50; "Sweet Caroline" (Neil Diamond) 2:44; "The Summer Knows" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) 2:44; "I'm Gonna Make It All the Way" (Floyd Huddleston) 2:54; "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Russell Brown, Irwin Levine) 3:07; "Satisfy Me One More Time" (Floyd Huddleston) 2:22; "If" (David Gates) 3:10; "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) 2:37; "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) 4:05; "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" (Jim Croce) 2:49

Background

• Sinatra was in retirement from 1971 to 1973
• The album gathers songs that charted or circulated during that break
• Spanish-language sources describe it as his 61st album
• Its song selection leans on material first made popular by other singers

Recording

• Recorded from December 10, 1973 to May 24, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Sessions are credited to The Burbank Studios in the MusicBrainz data
• Don Costa and Gordon Jenkins served as arrangers and conductors
• Lee Herschberg is credited as engineer
• Mixing credits go to Ed Greene, John Guess, Jack Hunt and Lee Herschberg
• John Brady is credited with the liner notes

Cover

• Cover design credited to Gribbitt!
• Ed Thrasher handled art direction and photography

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants.
• Began singing professionally as a teenager with the Hoboken Four, winning Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
• Joined Harry James's band in 1939, then Tommy Dorsey's band, before going solo in 1942.

Career

• Signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and became a major star of the bobby-soxer era.
• Signed with Capitol Records in 1953; collaborated with arranger Nelson Riddle on albums such as In the Wee Small Hours and Songs for Swingin' Lovers!.
• Founded Reprise Records in 1960, releasing albums including September of My Years and the hit single "My Way".
• Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity (1953).
• Estimated to have sold around 150 million records worldwide.
• Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.
• Died May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Described as a 1974 album by American singer Frank Sinatra
• Consists mainly of songs made popular by other artists, and the title reflects that Sinatra was catching up on songs that came out while he was in retirement from 1971 to 1973
• Spanish-language sources count it as his 61st album
• In the December 1974 Kojak episode "Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die", Sinatra is mentioned several times by the murder victim Greg (George Shannon) while he is in his apartment trying to seduce his date
• Greg puts on a Sinatra record in that scene, but the music is not heard
• Kojak (Telly Savalas) mentions Sinatra several more times during the episode
• Halfway through the program, Kojak brings a copy of this album into the police department and throws it on a desk
• Sgt. Stavros (George Savalas) sits on the record without noticing what is underneath, and later hands it over to Kojak
• Kojak then arrives at the apartment of Lisa Walden (Andrea Marcovicci) still holding the album
• Telly Savalas also recorded a cover of "If", the song Sinatra sang on this album, and it was released as a single three months later

Records

• Spanish-language sources list it as the 61st album of Sinatra's career

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The December 1974 Kojak episode "Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die" mentions Sinatra several times, and the album appears on screen.
• Telly Savalas, who played Kojak, also recorded a cover of "If" that came out as a single three months after the episode aired.
• George Savalas, Telly's real-life brother, played Sgt. Stavros in the episode.
• Sinatra's album is used as a plot prop when Kojak brings it to Lisa Walden's apartment.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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