Trilogy: Past Present Future
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| Studio album by Frank Sinatra | ||||
| Released | March 26, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | July 17 - December 18, 1979 New York City, Los Angeles, Hollywood |
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| Genre | Classic pop, jazz | |||
| Length | 106:11 | |||
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Reprise 3 FS 2330 |
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| Producer | Sonny Burke | |||
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Trilogy: Past Present Future (or simply Trilogy) is a 1980 album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. It was his first album in six years. This album produced the last of Sinatra's many signature numbers, "Theme from New York, New York."
Each of the album's three records was conceived as an individual work portraying a different time epoch, and each was arranged by one of Sinatra's major collaborators: Billy May (The Past), Don Costa (The Present), and Gordon Jenkins (The Future).
For "The Past," Sinatra made a record of standards ("The Song Is You," "It Had to Be You," "All of You") for the first time since the early 1960s. "The Present" concentrates on pop hits like "Love Me Tender", "Something", "Song Sung Blue", "MacArthur Park", and "Just the Way You Are". Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review described "The Future" as "ambitious, experimental, and self-referential — more of a freeform suite than a set of songs".
All songs on "The Future" section written by Gordon Jenkins.
Trilogy: Past Present Future peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200.
At the Grammy Awards of 1981, Trilogy: Past Present Future was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and Sinatra's recording of "Theme from New York, New York" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
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