Trilogy: Past, Present & Future

by Frank Sinatra

Trilogy: Past, Present & Future cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 March 1980
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:47:16
  • Community rating: 3.08/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Conceived as a massively ambitious triple-LP comeback, 'Trilogy' is divided into three distinct conceptual themes. The first two discs find Sinatra comfortably tackling classic big band standards and contemporary pop covers, but the final suite, 'The Future', is a bizarre, heavily orchestrated space-age odyssey composed by Gordon Jenkins. It earned widespread critical attention and secured Sinatra a massive late-career commercial victory with the hit 'Theme from New York, New York'.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, crooning

Tracklist

  1. The Song Is You (2:40)
  2. But Not For Me (3:52)
  3. I Had The Craziest Dream (3:15)
  4. It Had To Be You (3:54)
  5. Let's Face The Music And Dance (2:51)
  6. Street Of Dreams (3:33)
  7. My Shining Hour (3:23)
  8. All Of You (1:43)
  9. More Than You Know (3:24)
  10. They All Laughed (2:51)
  11. You And Me (We Wanted It All) (4:09)
  12. Just The Way You Are (3:27)
  13. Something (4:43)
  14. MacArthur Park (2:47)
  15. Theme From New York, New York (3:26)
  16. Summer Me, Winter Me (4:04)
  17. Song Sung Blue (2:48)
  18. For The Good Times (4:43)
  19. Love Me Tender (3:35)
  20. That's What God Looks Like To Me (2:58)
  21. What Time Does The Next Miracle Leave? (10:40)
  22. World War None! (4:35)
  23. The Future (4:08)
  24. The Future (Continued): I've Been There (3:34)
  25. The Future (Conclusion): Song Without Words (6:05)
  26. Finale: Before The Music Ends (10:00)

Credits

  • Frank Sinatra - primary artist
  • Billy May - conductor
  • Don Costa - conductor
  • Gordon Jenkins - conductor, words by, written-by
  • Oscar Hammerstein II - lyrics by
  • Jerome Kern - music by
  • Ira Gershwin - lyrics by
  • George Gershwin - music by

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