The Standards Bob Sang

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Bob Dylan recently released Triplicate, his third collection of pop standards. Like Dylans earlier albums, Shadows in the Night (2015) and Fallen Angels (2016), most of the songs have an association with the great Frank Sinatra.

This double LP presents Frank Sinatras versions of many of the songs Dylan sang in these three forays into the Great American Songbook. Orchestras accompanying the iconic singer are led by Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Alex Stordahl, and Tommy Dorsey, among others.

Dylan once related this about an encounter he had with Ol Blue Eyes: He was funny, we were standing out on his patio at night and he said to me, You and me, pal, we got blue eyes, were from up there, and he pointed to the stars. These other bums are from down here. I remember thinking that he might be right.