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http://www.allmusic.com/album/come-spy-with-us-the-secret-agent-handbook-mw0002622093

 

1. A Man Alone (Theme From "The Ipcress File") - JOHN BARRY & HIS ORCHESTRA (1965 UK 7" single on CBS Records 201747, A)
2. Deadlier Than The Male (Title Song From The Film "Deadlier Than The Male" - THE WALKER BROTHERS (1966 UK 7" single on Philips BF 137, A)
3. Arabesque (From The Film "Arabesque") - THE VENTURES (1966 USA 7" single on Dolton 321, A)
4. The Look Of Love (Theme From "Casino Royale") - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD (1967 UK 7" single on Philips BF 1557, A)
5. Theme From "Danger Man" - THE RED PRICE COMBO with Orchestra (1962 UK 7" single on Parlophone 45-R 4789, A)
6. The Silencers (From The Movie "The Silencers") - VICKI CARR (1966 USA 7" single on Liberty 55857, A)
7. Secret Agent Man - AL CAIOLA (from the 1965 US Stereo LP "Al Caiola...Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes" on United Artists UAS 6435)
8. Who Needs Forever (Theme From "The Deadly Affair") - ASTRUD GILBERTO (1966 US 7" single on Verve 10457, A)
9. Theme From The Man From Uncle - THE CHALLENGERS (1965 USA 7" single on GNOP Crescendo 362, A)
10. The Last Of The Secret Agents (From The Film "The Last Of The Secret Agents") - NANCY SINATRA (1966 USA 7" single on Reprise 0461, A)
11. Mission: Impossible - LALO SCHIFRIN & HIS ORCHESTRA (1968 USA 7" single on Dot 17059, A)
12. Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine (Theme From The Film) - THE SUPREMES (1965 USA 7" single on American International 65-1335, A)
13. Our Man Flint - BILLY STRANGE (1966 USA 7" single on GNP Crescendo 367, A)
14. Wednesday's Child (Theme From "The Quiller Memorandum") - MATT MONRO (1967 USA 7" single on Capitol 5823, A)
15. Theme From "Get Smart" - BOB CRANE, HIS DRUMS & ORCHESTRA (1968 USA 7" single on Epic 5-10038, B-side of "Happy Feet")
16. We Should've (Theme From "Modesty Blaise") - CLEO LANE & RAY ELLINGTON (1966 UK 7" single on Fontana TF 704, A)
17. The James Bond Theme (Dr No) - JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES (1963 USA 7" single on Big Top 3148, A)
18. Burke's Law Theme - WYNTON KELLY (1963 UK 7" single on Verve VS 518, A)
19. Where The Bullets Fly - SUSAN MAUGHAN (1966 UK 7" single on Philips BF 1518, A)
20. High Wire (Theme From "Danger Man") - BRIAN FAHEY & HIS ORCHESTRA (from the 1967 UK LP "Time For TV" on Columbia Studio 2 TWO 175)
21. Bye-Bye (Theme From "Peter Gunn") - SARAH VAUGHAN (1965 USA 7" single on Mercury 72417, B-side of "The Pawnbroker")
22. Theme From "Where The Spies Are" - JIMMY SMITH (1966 USA 7" single on Verve VK 10382, A)
23. The Liquidator - SHIRLEY BASSEY (1966 UK 7" single on Columbia DB 7811, A)
24. I Spy - ROLAND SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA (from the 1966 UK LP "Themes For Secret Agents" on Decca Phase 4 Stereo PFS 4094)
25. Come Spy With Me - SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES (1967 USA 7" single on Tamla T 54145, A)

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Yeah, I've got it :D

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It's about as crummy an album as one could possibly imagine four great musicians making with the inimitable assistance of Claus Ogerman and Creed Taylor. And GOD ALMIGHTY, it cost me fifteen sodding pounds!!!!!

MG

Just noticed the sleeve doesn't mention the sidemen who are:

Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb.

I hope they were paid well.

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Yes it was that, don't know if it's the same song or not, though.

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Generally slagged, it seems, but I kinda like it. And either way, "I've Been To Town" is a lost little gem of a song.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sinatra+"I've+Been+To+Town"+&qpvt=sinatra+"I've+Been+To+Town"+&FORM=VDRE

 

Looks like 70's-80's Sinatra, and quite possibly one of those albums he should have never made.

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That's a fair and necessary rumination, but if you get too easy about it, you miss a gem like 1981's  She Shot Me Down. The cover of "Bang Bang" with full frontal Gordon Jenkins orchestration is one of those times where Sinatra finds a song as one thing and leaves it as something else altogether. I'd like to think that it could have happened with greater frequency than it did, but maybe not. Either way, those first two "comeback" albums were pretty weak. Not bad, just weak, and I'd rather hear a bad sinatra record than a weak one, truthfully. I guess there were singles being released that were not too bad, but then I gotta buy that complete Reprise box to get those and...maybe later.

My big WTF? about the whole thing is Don Costa, was he really the best choice available for that type of thing, always? I'm not convinced that he was.

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I dunno man, the cat recorded a lot of filler for Capitol, for singles. some of them were indeed great, but more than a few were no better than what he did later on, more often.

The lead tune on She Shot Me Down was a Sondheim thing that worked really well in the easy-listening orchestral format of that album. But there were too few songs like taht available, or I guess it must have seemed that way to him.

I do know that he wanted to do "That's Life" with Jimmy Bowen becuase Bowen had been getting Dean Martin some good chart action, and Sinatra wanted some of that for himself. I don't think you'd ever go wrong of factoring insecurity and ego into the mix when looking at any decision that Frank Sinatra made, nor do I think you can really fault him for it either. Not unlike John Shaft, he was a complicated man, and perhaps no one understood him, not even his woman.

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  I don't think you'd ever go wrong of factoring insecurity and ego into the mix when looking at any decision that Frank Sinatra made, nor do I think you can really fault him for it either. Not unlike John Shaft, he was a complicated man, and perhaps no one understood him, not even his woman.

Yep. He felt he needed a chart buster. A complicated man indeed.

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I liked All the Way Home (a track, not an album) from '83 or thereabouts.

Generally, in view of his earlier great taste in recording the best of the ASB, I wonder if he was making the decisions as he got on.

 

Well, Mr. Sinatra wasn't even making all the decisions earlier on, not with Mitch Miller in charge.  "Mama Will Bark" or "There's a Flaw In My Flue", any one?  Even dreck like "High Hopes" and "Love And Marriage" must have been recorded as calculated (and successful) attempts at a hit rather than out of any intrinsic musical merit.

It's been years since I listened to it, but i kinda liked the late-60's A Man Alone album.  And he handled some 60's material rather well.  I like his version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", for example.  But clearly he had no use for songs like "Downtown" or "Mrs. Robinson" and should never have bothered to record them.

That She Shot Me Down album is anoften overlooked winner.  "Good Thing Going", "Hey Look, No Crying", "Monday Morning Quarterback" are all effective as Sinatra songs. 

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I liked All the Way Home (a track, not an album) from '83 or thereabouts.

Generally, in view of his earlier great taste in recording the best of the ASB, I wonder if he was making the decisions as he got on.

 

 

That She Shot Me Down album is anoften overlooked winner.  "Good Thing Going", "Hey Look, No Crying", "Monday Morning Quarterback" are all effective as Sinatra songs. 

I like what he did with Good Thing Going. I'm becoming a big Sondheim advocate. I've been Jonathan Schwartz-ized......

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On 13/10/2015 1:33:07, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Yeah, I've got it :D

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It's about as crummy an album as one could possibly imagine four great musicians making with the inimitable assistance of Claus Ogerman and Creed Taylor. And GOD ALMIGHTY, it cost me fifteen sodding pounds!!!!!

MG

Just noticed the sleeve doesn't mention the sidemen who are:

Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb.

I hope they were paid well.

I found it for a fiver and thought it was my lucky day (and I think it mentions Kenny Burrell in the liner notes). And then I got home and played it :(

On 30/10/2015 2:05:29, fasstrack said:

Yep. He felt he needed a chart buster. A complicated man indeed.

Sinatra and his people always pushed the line that "his songs were too good for the charts" :D Miles always wanted a chart buster too.

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