Spent an idle moment believe it or not listening to different versions of Harrison’s Something in the way she moves. My granddaughter tiffany says Sinatra’s version (1975) is unimpressive, ridiculous. I beg to differ—it’s brilliant, in arrangements by Riddle, Costa and others. Ranks with some of his best ballad work (on wee small hours, only the lonely, September of my years albums) All his efforts on this one are quite good indeed. Now we’re in his 100th yar and I think we need to separate his unquestionable singing gift from his turn to the right and his development of machistic ratpack, rightwing values… As he got older, the singing got richer, deeper, even when his voice began to go throughout the 1990s. Sort of a Dorian Gray in reverse. Any way, the version of 1970 https://youtube/watch?v=JGaowLyVdXc is quite jazzy and good. Maybe too busy. No jack on this one!—and yet it would seem to fit here most The 1971 string version is also very good, more deeply felt. And now we have jack— https://youtube/watch?v=gsTh_kCa7Rs nelson riddle’s all strings version (sounding like Gordon Jenkins) But somehow I feel the best Ive heard is the very one Tiffany makes fun of-- the Don Costas arrangement concert style sung at the Jerusalem concert 1975 is totally brilliant, one of the great versions equal in its own way to the beatles version and deeper than Ray Charles, elvis or any one . vagalume.br/frank-sinatra/something.html I believe Sinatra sang the same version in Romana Dominican republic in 1982—and he still did it just about to perfection. The song became his as did almost any song he worked on. People all over Latin America and the world have grown to understand his greatness. The sixties hurt his standing and his politics. But here he takes one of the great 60s songs and give it another beautiful life. Sorry Tiff, I love George’s version, but I also love Franks…
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:30:14 +0000