"Sinatra at the Sands" — Frank Sinatra with Count Basie and His Orchestra
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Could this be peak Frank? Sinatra at the Sands captures the energy, the cool, and the incredible voice that made this crooner so iconic. Backed by the Count Basie Orchestra with arrangements by a young Quincy Jones, this live album still swings 60 years later!
Sinatra at the Sands was recorded at a moment when Sinatra was emerging from a slump. Rock and roll dominated the airwaves, the Beatles were redefining popular music and crooning just wasn't cool anymore. But this album, recorded live in Vegas, shows a 50-year-old Frank sounding loose, confident, and completely at home in front of a band that swings like nothing else.
Listen with us as we break down and react to the best of this swingin' album.
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00:00 - Intro Jam: Fly Me To the Moon
01:35 - The Sinatra-Basie Episode!
03:45 - Is This Peak Frank?
05:45 - The Mid-60s Culture Shift
07:45 - "Come Fly With Me"
12:00 - The Quincy Influence
14:45 - "I've Got You Under My Skin"
17:30 - What To Listen For
22:30 - "The Shadow of Your Smile"
26:20 - Freddie Green's "Chunking" Technique
28:15 - Sinatra's Vocal Gift
33:30 - "Street of Dreams"
35:50 - "One For My Baby (And One More for the Road)"
38:40 - "Fly Me To the Moon"
45:00 - "One O'Clock Jump"
49:50 - Desert Island Tracks
54:05 - Apex Moments
59:05 - Categories
1:03:20 - Coming Up Next Week
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Adam? |
| 0:05.0 | What's up, Jack? |
| 0:07.0 | Jack, what you're talking about? That's what's in your glass? |
| 0:09.0 | No, this is Coke Zero, actually. |
| 0:11.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey Peter, I was thinking today in honor of the album that we're listening to Sinatra at the Sands |
| 0:16.0 | that instead of playing the intro like we normally do, that we That we could sing it, ding, ding it. |
| 0:21.4 | I like that. Let's do it. |
| 0:22.7 | You ready? |
| 0:25.0 | Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars. |
| 0:32.9 | Let me see what life is like on Jupiter and Mars. |
| 0:38.3 | How'd all these people get into my room? |
| 0:40.3 | In other words, hold my hand. |
| 0:45.3 | Sing it, Pete. |
| 0:47.3 | In other word, that's a two chord, buddy. |
| 0:50.3 | Darling kiss me. |
| 0:53.3 | Right on the soup coolers, you know? |
| 0:56.0 | Please not. |
| 0:57.0 | Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey. |
| 1:03.0 | Did you say sing? |
| 1:05.0 | You are all I long for, all I worship and adore. |
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