Watertown (album)

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Watertown
Watertown cover
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released 1970
Recorded July 14, 1969 –
July 17, 1969
Genre Classic pop
Length 36:18
Label Reprise Records
Producer Charles Calello
Professional reviews
Frank Sinatra chronology
A Man Alone
(1969)		 Watertown
(1970)		 Sinatra & Company
(1971)

Watertown is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music).

It is Sinatra's most ambitious concept album, and his most explicit attempt at rock-oriented pop, an experiment perhaps first started on the 1966 album That's Life. It charts the story of small town middle-aged man whose wife has left him with his children.

It is similar in tone and nature to Sinatra's earliest concept albums, albums that evoke an air of despair and loneliness, found on such albums as 1958's Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely and 1955's In the Wee Small Hours.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the album's construction as being a 'Series of brief lyrical snapshots that read like letters or soliloquies, the culminating effect of the songs is an atmosphere of loneliness, but it is a loneliness without much hope or romance - it is the sound of a broken man'. It is this introspection that one consistently finds in Sinatra's later albums, culminating in Sinatra's last concept album, Trilogy: Past Present Future from 1980.

"Watertown" was arranged and conducted by Bob Gaudio, 1/4th of the 1960's pop vocal group "Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons".

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bob Gaudio and Jake Holmes.

  1. "Watertown" – 3:36
  2. "Goodbye (She Quietly Says)" – 3:06
  3. "For a While" – 3:09
  4. "Michael and Peter" – 5:10
  5. "I Would Be in Love (Anyway)" – 2:31
  6. "Elizabeth" – 3:38
  7. "What a Funny Girl (You Used to Be)" – 3:00
  8. "What's Now Is Now" – 4:04
  9. "She Says" – 1:51
  10. "The Train" – 3:26
  11. "Lady Day" (CD bonus track) – 2:47

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