Sinatra & Company

Sinatra & Company is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra released in 1971. The first side of this album is in the bossa nova style, and the second side is influenced by soft rock, featuring two songs from John Denver. The bossa nova recordings were originally cut for a follow-up to the widely acclaimed Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. Arranged by Eumir Deodato, the recordings had been completed, the artwork finalized, and an 8-track tape release of the planned album, titled Sinatra–Jobim, briefly made available when the decision was made to retrench. Some of Sinatra's less mainstream albums hadn't performed well, and anxieties drove the creation of this hybrid. Three songs recorded at the Sinatra-Jobim session – "Bonita", "Sabiá", and "Off Key" – were omitted from Sinatra & Company. "Sabiá" was released in the US as the flip side of the 45 rpm single "Lady Day" in 1970, and was included on the 1970 Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders sampler Schlagers!, as well as being issued along with "Bonita" on the 1977 compilation Portrait of Sinatra and the 1979 compilation, Sinatra–Jobim Sessions. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)