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Nice 'n' Easy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Frank Sinatra
Label: Mobile Fidelity Koch
Category: Music
List Price: $34.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 13785
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.2 x 0.2
MPN: 790
UPC: 821797179065
EAN: 0821797179065
ASIN: B001BJ65SK
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Nice 'n' Easy - Frank Sinatra, Bergman, Alan | | • | That Old Feeling - Frank Sinatra, Brown, Lew | | • | How Deep Is the Ocean? - Frank Sinatra, Berlin, Irving | | • | I've Got a Crush on You - Frank Sinatra, Gershwin, George | | • | You Go to My Head - Frank Sinatra, Coots, J. Fred | | • | Fools Rush In - Frank Sinatra, Bloom, Rube | | • | Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - Frank Sinatra, Kalmar, Bert | | • | She's Funny That Way - Frank Sinatra, Moret, Neil | | • | Try a Little Tenderness - Frank Sinatra, Campbell, Jimmy [Vo | | • | Embraceable You - Frank Sinatra, Gershwin, George | | • | Mam'selle - Frank Sinatra, Gordon, Mack | | • | Dream - Frank Sinatra, Mercer, Johnny | | • | The Nearness of You - Frank Sinatra, Carmichael, Hoagy | | • | Someone to Watch over Me - Frank Sinatra, Gershwin, George | | • | Day In - Day Out - Frank Sinatra, Bloom, Rube | | • | My One and Only Love - Frank Sinatra, Mellin, Robert |
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Amazon.com
Although it wasn't designed with the cohesive vision of Sinatra's conceptual masterpieces (like In the Wee Small Hours or Only the Lonely), track for track, this "contractual obligation album"--a lightly swingin' single followed by a bunch of ballads, recorded near the end of his tenure at Capitol--is as strong as anything the singer's ever done. The lightweight title song sets a relaxed tone that's a little misleading--just when you think you can kick back in the recliner and take it "nice 'n' easy" (a swell tune, by the way), Sinatra plunges off the emotional deep end with "That Old Feeling." It's like waking up from an afternoon nap to find yourself afflicted by insomnia in the wee small hours. OK, so he contradicts himself. The first song is about taking your time along the smoothly paved road to romance; the second is about driving straight into the ditch of romantic obsession--the difference, say, between Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner. From this point on, the album's tone is definitely Gardner. And Sinatra's singing has never been more spine tingling than on the next three songs, sounding unfathomable depths in "How Deep Is the Ocean," seductively cooing "I've Got a Crush on You" in his lover's ear, and unabashedly succumbing to the delirious intoxication of "You Go to My Head," his voice "spinning 'round in my brain like the bubbles in a glass of champagne." You can get drunk on this record. --Jim Emerson
Album Description
24 karat gold disc! New Mini-LP-Style Packaging! Five Stars on All Music Guide. Mastered from the Original 2-Track Analog Master Tapes. Charted at No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Music Chart in 1960. 1960 Grammy Nominee for Album of the Year. Sinatra's eighth collaboration with conductor/arranger Nelson Riddle. Nice 'N' Easy is a hybrid album, mixing breezy mid-tempo numbers with some not-so-dreary ballads. Released between the usual alternating pattern of either all ballads or all swingin' albums, Frank again tapped Riddle to conduct and arrange the twelve pieces of perfection that make up this release. Definitive versions consist of: That Old Feeling, How Deep Is The Ocean, I've Got A Crush On You, Try A Little Tenderness, Embraceable You and Dream.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Frankly marvelous... November 3, 2008
This has been my favorite Sinatra recording since it was first released on vinyl. The state of the art remastering allows you to hear nuances that have been buried in other formats. This is a YOU ARE THERE recording worthy of it's special handling and premium price. Nelson Riddle's arrangement of FOOLS RUSH IN has an understated perfection that will probably never be equaled by any vocalist and orchestra! If you have a sweet ear, get it some candy!
5 stars, but beware October 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just recieved this MO-FI version of Nice 'N' Easy. It sounds good. Curious that Amazon has it listed with extra tracks. Also, this is supposed to be new - a 2008 release, but the packaging has a 2002 copyright on it - presumably when it was mastered? Hmmm....
 Let's take it nice and easy. May 14, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album by Frank Sinatra was recorded in the Spring of 1960. With the exception of the title song, all the songs are remakes of songs Sinatra had previously recorded from the 1940s to the early '50s. It's breezy title song notwithstanding, Nice 'N' Easy actually is an album of romantic ballads of a decidedly ardent, even reflective feel. In short, the sort of material that Sinatra performed better than any other singer. The songs were arranged by Nelson Riddle. Sinatra fans should dig it.
A BEAUTIFUL ALBUM... June 27, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album ranks as my favorite ballad album from the CAPITOL era. Although recorded in 1960, it still very much ties in with the series of concept albums recorded by Sinatra at CAPITOL records.The songs are beautiful and tender (the title song really was just a commercial and fun success and stands on his own)and Nelson Riddle's arrangements are as supportive as ever and very very intimate. This not an album to go to sleep over but one that underneath a surface of being nice'n easy has a lot of emotions and depth.
Great standards, great arrangements, great singing: buy it! October 24, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sinatra is the last word in taste when it comes to popular music, so when FS and Nelson Riddle (arranger) teamed up for Nice 'N' Easy it was bound to be a success and in fact became one of the top-selling albums of Sinatra's career.This is the first of several albums in which Sinatra landed a hit (in this case the title track) and the record company built an album around it. Unlike some of the later Reprise efforts ('That's Life' being an example), Sinatra and Riddle backed the title track -- which is perfectly fine on its own -- with a generous selection of classics from Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin and other legendary composers. The result is a wonderful update on some of the great ballads of the Columbia years (1943-52). 'I've Got a Crush on You' is forever associated with Sinatra, are are Mercer's 'Dream' and Berlin's remarkable 'How Deep is the Ocean?' While the Columbia recordings are treasurable, Sinatra may have been an even better vocalist by 1960, and the emotion in 'How Deep', in particular, has always seemed more effective than the creamy vocals of the 1940s performance. 'Fools Rush In', another great standard, is arguably more convincing, because by this time Sinatra was a bit more worldly when it came to falling in love and getting hurt. Listeners looking for the hip swing of 1950s Sinatra will probably enjoy several of the Capitol concept albums (Songs for Swingin' Lovers and Come Dance with Me) more, but if you enjoy stunning performances of some of the ballad standards, Nice 'N' Easy is an easy selection to add to your collection. Within several years after Nice 'N' Easy, FS would move on to a period of one-off's, some of which succeeded beyond measure, others which have good and bad moments. The present album is securely among the masterworks of Sinatra's astounding run at Capitol Records. The regular issue CD seems to be unavailable (!), but it is certainly worth it to buy the import to own this classic recording.
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