ALL IS SENTIMENT

The time that Frank Sinatra spent with the swelling violins at Capitol Records was truly fruitful. No One Cares (1959) is among my most favorite albums (and album covers); its unabashed Romanticism, that poses Frank as some kind of White Plains young Werther, is suited-up, but not at all square (as, I'd imagine, the hepsters of the era would have it). The sheer cinema of the sound launches it far into the pop stratosphere, a pre-psychedelic trip, more transportative than any tired old lyric about rabbit holes. Here is the second track, "A Cottage for Sale," listen and enjoy--all is sentiment.