Serious collectors of Frank Sinatra -- the ones who buy the endless CD compilations with one rare track, the under-the-counter bootlegs, the import LPs with different artwork -- are a notoriously tough bunch. They're happy to shell out the bucks for music they've already bought half a dozen times, but heaven help the reissue producers, liner note writers, and (especially) the Sinatra estate if someone screws up.
And someone always screws up something, no matter how small. For example, take Sinatra-Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings, released last year, which received complaints about a single note of one song sounding different from the originally released version. The historical record has been altered, cried more than one faithful fan. And then there was the 37 CD box set of every album Sinatra recorded for Reprise Records between 1960 and '84. Except, it wasn't. Where was 12 Songs Of Christmas? Where were the Reprise Repertory Theater albums? Why only studio albums and not live albums as well? (And keep in mind, the vast majority of the people asking these questions were people who already owned the music multiple times over.) To add insult to injury, two pages of the booklet were reprinted twice and two pages were missing. J'accuse!
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