Watertown (album)

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Watertown
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	March 1970
Recorded	July 14 – October 31, 1969
Studio	Columbia (New York City)
Genre	Traditional pop baroque pop[1] pop rock[2] folk rock[3]
Length	33:33
Label	Reprise
Producer	Bob Gaudio
Frank Sinatra chronology
A Man Alone (1969) Watertown (1970) Sinatra & Company (1971)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	8.9/10[4]

Watertown (subtitled A Love Story) is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1970 through Reprise Records. It is a concept album centered on a man from Watertown, New York. In a series of soliloquies, the nameless narrator tells his heartbreaking story of personal loss: his wife has left him and their two boys for the lure of the big city. Watertown was produced and co-written by Bob Gaudio, one of four members of the rock band the Four Seasons, with Jake Holmes also co-writing the songs. It is the only album where Sinatra ever voiced over pre-recorded orchestral tracks. The album was released to mixed critical reviews and poor sales, with it being Sinatra's only major album release not to chart in the top 100 of the Billboard 200. It has since been reevaluated and many consider it to be among his finest albums.