Sinatra at the Sands

Sinatra at the Sands
Live album by
ReleasedJuly 1966
RecordedJanuary and February 1966
Genre
Length76:03
LabelReprise
FS 1019
ProducerSonny Burke
Frank Sinatra chronology
Strangers In The Night
(1966)
Sinatra at the Sands
(1966)
That's Life
(1966)
Count Basie chronology
Live at the Sands (Before Frank)
(1966)
Sinatra at the Sands
(1966)
Basie's Beatle Bag
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Mojo[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966.

It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.

Sinatra and Basie had previously collaborated on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and 1964's It Might As Well Be Swing, with both albums released on Sinatra's Reprise label. The album was remixed and remastered and released in DVD-Audio in high-resolution stereo and multi-channel surround in 2003. An alternate version of the same show with a slightly different track list was released in November 2006 as part of the box set Sinatra: Vegas. The album is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.[4]

In 2000 it was voted number 461 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[5]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Andrew Male Mojo, January 2010, Issue 194.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ "American certifications – Frank Sinatra – Sinatra at the Sands". Recording Industry Association of America.
  5. ^ Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 166. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.