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The World We Knew

The World We Knew, also known as Frank Sinatra, is a 1967 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra.

The album's title track reached No. 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1967. Its second track, "Somethin' Stupid"—a duet between Sinatra and his daughter Nancy—reached No. 1 on both charts.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in his review of the album for Allmusic, awarded it two-and-a-half out of five stars, and described it as, "More of a singles collection than a proper album [...] Much of this has a rock-oriented pop production, complete with fuzz guitars, reverb, folky acoustic guitars, wailing harmonicas, drum kits, organs, and brass and string charts that punctuate the songs rather than provide the driving force [...] the songs Sinatra tackles with a variety of arrangers are more ambitious than most middle-of-the-road, adult-oriented soft rock of the late '60s." Erlewine described the album's ninth track, "Drinking Again", as "exceptional, nuanced" and said that it "ranks among the best songs Sinatra cut during the '60s."

Track 1 (The World We Knew):

29/30-June-1967 (Thu/Fri)- New York. (from 9 P.M. to 12:30 A.M.).

Mel Davis, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Bernie Glow, Markie Markowitz (tpt); Buddy Morrow, Wayne Andre, Bob Alexander (tbn); Paul Faulise (b-tbn); Richard Berg, Ray Alonge, Brooks Tillotson (fr-h); Romeo Penque, George Berg, Ted Gompers, Vincent Abato, Harvey Estrin, Phil Bodner, Ray Beckenstein (sax/wwd); David Nadien, Gene Orloff, Sylvan Shulman, Mac Ceppos, Mannie Green, Tosha Samaroff, Raoul Poliakin, Leo Kruczek, Julius Schachter, Julius Brand, Joe Malin, Paul Winter, Max Hollander Charles Libove, Fred Buldrini, Aaron Rosand (vln); Sidney Brecher, Arnold Magnes, George Brown, Harold Coletta, Alfred Brown, Harold Furrnansky (via); Maurice Bialkin, Maurice Brown, Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken, Peter Makas Jr., Joseph Tekula (vlc); Margaret Ross (harp); Stan Freeman*, Moe Wechsler* (p); Eric Gale*, Al Caiola*, Bucky Pizzarelli*, Carl Lynch* (g); Toots Thielemans* (g/harrnonica); Milt Hinton* (b); Gary Chester* (d); George Devens*, Bobby Rosengarden, Phil Kraus* (perc). Gordon Jenkins, Billy Strange, Ernie Freeman (arr).

ADD: Dick Hyde, Lew McCreary (tbn); Don Randi (p); Donnie Lanier, Dennis Budimir, Bobby Gibbons, Louis Morell (g); Larry Knechtel, Chuck Berghofer, Carol Kaye (b/F-b); Hal Blaine (d); Milt Holland, Gary Coleman (perc). Recorded in Hollywood, under direction of Billy Strange.

Track 2 (Somethin' Stupid):

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