Frank Sinatra - What's New? Lyrics

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Desert Island Album

LINDA RONSTADT's eloquent appraisal of "What's New?"
On her "Playing Favorites" show this day on Siriusly Sinatra satellite radio, Linda Ronstadt had an insightful, personal reflection about WHAT'S NEW? -- title track for the first of her three albums with Nelson Riddle (that sold six million copies):
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“I remember when I first heard the “Sings for Only the Lonely” album and (wow!) – it hit me as a shining example of American pop exuberance!

“You could get it on any level: You could get it on, 'I've got two-cents-to-my-name and I'm kicking a can down the street' or it could be as literate as you want, you know – lyrics by Cole Porter and the Gershwins, or Rodgers & Hart – highly-literate lyrics, with the beautiful, beautiful marriage of very sophisticated music – very sophisticated chord changes! that the orchestra just LOVED because they had something they could really get their teeth-in, and the orchestra could really PLAY American Standards!”

“To me, the way Sinatra and Nelson Riddle sat down and planned this record (“Only the Lonely”) with the weight of those song-writers behind them! – the weight of all those great jazz players – that really created the form and defined it. And the weight of Sinatra's virtuoso, bel canto style singing! – SO natural, right 'off the breath,' right off-of speech: His singing style is right off-of speech – there's nothing artificial about it.

“And there's something about the way he tells that story – where you see somebody you used to know (What's New) and all of a sudden all those feelings come up, and you hope that person still likes you, and you hope that relationship can come back . . . all the moments of ecstasy, and the misery, and the sadness – the kind of incredible 'bloodletting,' you know that happens when a cherished hope is let to fall in the street.”

“And that whole drama is right there in that song, and in the instrumental in the middle -- there is that kind of moody . . . you know, where Nelson, instead of all the lushness of the memories of that relationship, there's a kind of brooding – remembering, just remembering for a while. And then . . . off it goes.

“I've just loved this record. It was a great inspiration to me.”
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Thanks,
Zachary Schultz for sharing this one. Celebrated this day at Sinatra Family -- Forum -- "Siriusly Sinatra" -- MY FAVORITE VERSION -- YOURS TOO? https://sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/50225-My-Favorite-Version-%28yours-too-%29?p=1277782#post1277782

Flawless interpretation by the chairman