RING-A-DING-DING! A 6-CD SET FROM OL' BLUE EYES.Byline: - Glenn Whipp It's pretty rare these days to come across a box set of music that isn't a rehash re·hash tr.v. re·hashed, re·hash·ing, re·hash·es 1. To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration: rehashing old ideas. 2. To discuss again. of songs we've heard a thousand times before. That's why the new six-CD treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure. 2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident. ``Frank Sinatra in Hollywood: 1940-1964'' is such a find. Here in one box is pretty much every tune Sinatra sang in a movie, along with ring-a-ding-ding oddities The Oddities were a professional wrestling stable in the WWF. History The Jackyl formed the group in 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities." The group consisted of "freakish" wrestlers, including the masked Golga (formerly Earthquake, whose mask had like Sinatra's 1954 acceptance speech for his Oscar for ``From Here to Eternity'' and some funny interviews and promotional spots. And get this: 90 percent of the 160 tracks here have never been commercially available before. Sure, the movies covered here aren't all worth remembering. But for every ``It Happened In Brooklyn,'' there's a ``Pal Joey'' or an ``Anchors Aweigh'' or the classic Rat Pack rat pack n. Slang A closely knit group of people sharing interests. rat pack n (Brit) (inf) → journalistes mpl de la presse à sensation vehicle ``Robin and the 7 Hoods.'' And while much of the material spotlights the Voice in its crooner-heartthrob phase, we also hear Sinatra brilliantly working out songs (``Young at Heart,'' ``The Lady Is a Tramp,'' ``Just One of Those Things'') that would become part of his classic concert repertoire. At a list price of nearly $120 (you can find it cheaper by searching various Web retailers), ``Sinatra in Hollywood'' is probably best for die-hard supporters of the Chairman's music and movies. If you count yourself as one of that pack, though, this is the mother of all mother lodes Mother Lode, belt of gold-bearing quartz veins, central Calif., along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The term is sometimes limited to a strip c.70 mi (110 km) long and from 1 to 6 1-2 mi (1.6–10.5 km) wide, running NW from Mariposa. you've been waiting for. Dig in. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: SINATRA |
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