The World We Knew, also known as Frank Sinatra, is a 1967 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra.
The album's title track reached No. 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1967. Its second track, "Somethin' Stupid"—a duet between Sinatra and his daughter Nancy—reached No. 1 on both charts.
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Reception
Upon release, Billboard reviewed the album favorably, praising its overall quality while noting the cover art as its primary shortcoming.
Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in his review of the album for AllMusic, awarded it two-and-a-half out of five stars, and described it as, "More of a singles collection than a proper album [...] Much of this has a rock-oriented pop production, complete with fuzz guitars, reverb, folky acoustic guitars, wailing harmonicas, drum kits, organs, and brass and string charts that punctuate the songs rather than provide the driving force [...] the songs Sinatra tackles with a variety of arrangers are more ambitious than most middle-of-the-road, adult-oriented soft rock of the late '60s." Erlewine described the album's ninth track, "Drinking Again", as "exceptional, nuanced" and said that it "ranks among the best songs Sinatra cut during the '60s."
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Carson Parks is also known as C. Carson Parks
Jim Harbert is also known as James Harbert
Overdubs for "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" recorded on June 30 and July 1, 1967
The Orchestra on "Somethin' Stupid" includes 10 Violins
Background Vocals on "Don't Sleep in the Subway" recorded on July 27, 1967
Basic Backing Tracks for (and Overdubs for unreleased version of) “This Town” was recorded on June 30, 1967
Instrumental Overdubs for "This Town" recorded on July 27, 1967
The Orchestra on "You Are There" includes 16 Violins, 6 Cellos, 3 French Horns and 7 Saxophones & Woodwinds
The Orchestra on "Drinking Again" includes 12 Violins
The Orchestra on Tracks 3–4 and 7 includes 21 Violins, 3 Cellos and 4 French Horns
The Orchestra on Tracks 3–4 and 7–8 includes 6 Violas
The Orchestra on Tracks 5, 8 and 10 includes 5 Trumpets
The Orchestra on Tracks 5 and 10 includes 8 Violins
Sessions held in United-Western Studios, Hollywood, California.